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Mikis Theodorakis

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Mikis Theodorakis was born in the Greek island of Chios, in 1925. The exact same year that the other great composer of Greece was born in Xanthi, Manos Hatzidakis. He fought during the 2nd World War, and he was captured at the city of Tripoli. He was tortured, but when he was set free, he joined the partisan army of Greece named EAM... See full bio »

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Mihail Theodorakis
in Chios, Greece
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2013 Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film (documentary) (original music by)
 
2008 Mariza (short)
 
2007 People of Peace (documentary short)
 
2007 Modern Greeks: Mikis Theodorakis (TV documentary)
 
2005 Le dernier seigneur des Balkans (TV mini-series)
 
2003 An thymitheis t' oneiro mou (TV series)
 
2001 The Seventh Sun of Love
 
2000 Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns
 
2000 Tenussian Vacuvasco
 
2000 Peri anemon kai ydaton (TV series)
 
1997 Barluschke (documentary)
 
1992 Cerimònia d'inauguració jocs olímpics Barcelona '92 (TV movie)
 
1988 The Fog
 
1988 Misioni përtej detit
 
1986 Les clowns de Dieu
 
1983 Capitali culturali d'Europa (TV series documentary)
– Athina, epistrofi stin Akropoli (1983)
 
1981 I exelixi tis tehnis stin arhaia Ellada (documentary)
 
1981 Cavafis (short)
 
1980 The Man with the Carnation
 
1979 Easy Road
 
1979 Gia ena poukamiso adeiano, gia mia Eleni (documentary)
 
1979 Kostas
 
1977 Iphigenia
 
1977 Makarios, i megali poreia (documentary)
 
1976 Actas de Marusia
 
1976 O Thanasis sti hora tis sfaliaras (segment 7 hronia gypsos)
 
1975 Der Geheimnisträger
 
1975 Order: Kill Makarios
 
1975 Evidence (documentary)
 
1975 Christophe Colomb (TV movie)
 
1974 Tactical Guerilla
 
1974 The Story of Jacob and Joseph (TV movie)
 
1974 Edo Polytehneio (documentary)
 
1974 The Rehearsal
 
1973 Serpico
 
1973 The Battle of Sutjeska
 
1973 Reidarin värilliset aistimukset (TV documentary)
 
1972 State of Siege
 
1971 The Trojan Women
 
1971 Biribi
 
1970 Onvoltooide democratie (TV movie)
 
1970 Liesbeth List zingt Brendan Behan (TV short)
 
1970 Nausicaa (TV movie)
 
1969 Der Maler mit dem Stern (TV movie)
 
1969 Z
 
1968 The Lost Generation
 
1968 Az élö Antigoné (TV movie)
 
1968 A Member of the Firing Squad
 
1967 The Day the Fish Came Out
 
1967 The Greeks (TV documentary short)
 
1966 Devil at My Heels
 
1966 Von Griechenland (documentary short)
 
1965 I ellas horis ereipia (documentary)
 
1965 The Roundup
 
1965 Angels Without Wings
 
1965 Kataigida
 
1964 Zorba the Greek
 
1962 Five Miles to Midnight
 
1962 Phaedra
 
1962/I Electra
 
1962 Les amants de Teruel
 
1962 Betrayed Love
 
1961 Synoikia to Oneiro
 
1961 The Shadow of the Cat
 
1960 Faces in the Dark
 
1959 Honeymoon (from ballet "Los Amantes de Teruel")
 
1957 Night Ambush
 
1954 O golgothas mias orfanis
 
1953 Eva
 
1953 The Barefoot Battalion
 
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2011 Coriolanus ("Sta Pervolia")
 
2009 50 años de (TV series)
– El amor: usos y costumbres (2009) (writer: "Luna de Miel")
 
2002-2009 Cuéntame (TV series)
– Toda una vida (2009) (writer: "Luna de miel Honey Moon Song")
– Entre beso y beso... terremoto (2002) (writer: "Luna de miel Honey Moon Song")
 
2009 Bran Nue Dae (writer: "Zorba's dance")
 
2009 David Garrett Live in Berlin (TV movie) (writer: "Zorba's Dance")
 
2008-2009 Banda sonora (TV series)
– Episode #5.16 (2009) (writer: "Zorba's Dance")
– Episode #3.3 (2008) (writer: "Luna de Miel Honey Moon Song")
 
2009 My Life in Ruins (writer: "Theme From Zorba the Greek" 1964)
 
2009 Mary and Max (writer: "Zorba's Dance")
 
2008 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (writer: "Zorba the Greek")
 
2007 Buat Al-Gaida (TV series)
– Giannis Parios (2007) (writer: "Margarita Magiopoula")
 
2006 Uranya (writer: "Sou 'pa opou na 'nai tha simanoun oi kampanes")
 
2006 Tyhi vouno (TV series)
– Episode #1.1 (2006) (music: "Arnisi")
 
2006 Salvador (Puig Antich) (music: "Nous Sommes Deux" / lyrics: "Nous Sommes Deux")
 
2006 Diva (video) (writer: "Luna de miel Honey Moon Song")
 
2005 Cançons per no oblidar, el disc de la Marató (TV movie) (writer: "Noies voramar Ligna Koritsia")
 
2005 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (writer: "ZORBA THE GREEK")
 
2004 Cashback (short) (writer: "Zorba's Dance")
 
2001 S' agapo - M' agapas (TV series)
– Episode #1.42 (2001) (writer: "Ena to helidoni")
 
2000 Backdoor (writer: "Fengari magia mou 'kanes", "Strose to stroma sou gia dyo")
 
2000 Oi diaplekomenoi (TV series)
– Episode #1.3 (2000) (writer: "Me tosa fylla")
 
1999 The Deep End of the Ocean (writer: "Zorba's Dance")
 
1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (writer: "Zorba's Dance")
 
1998 Eternity and a Day (music: "Asma asmaton", "Tis agapis aimata")
 
1996 Nitrate Base (writer: "Zorba the Greek")
 
1996 Como un sueño (TV movie) (writer: "Luna de Miel Honey Moon Song")
 
1996 The Spectacular Life of Stonecutter's Charming Yolanda (short) (performer: "Zorbas")
 
1991 Sunes jul (TV series)
– Julpynt (1991) (writer: "Zorba the Greek")
 
1990 Green Card (writer: "Strossa Stroma Sou")
 
1987 High Season (music: "ZORBA'S DANCE" / as Miklos Theodorakis)
 
1979 Easy Road (writer: "Kapote tha 'rthoun")
 
1977 Unfinished Business (writer: "Luna de miel")
 
1976 Mousiki vradya (TV series)
– Neo Kyma (1976) (writer: "Tou mikrou voria", "To gelasto paidi")
 
1966 They're a Weird Mob (writer: "Cretan Dance")
 
1965 Hotel der toten Gäste (music: "In Athen gibt es ein Wiedersehen" / lyrics: "In Athen gibt es ein Wiedersehen")
 
1965 I Eva den... amartise (writer: "Strose to stroma sou")
 
1964 O gyrismos tis manas (writer: "Mana")
 
1962 Psila ta heria Hitler (writer: "Ehei i nyhta thanato")
 
1961 Poia einai i Margarita (music: "Margarita Margaro" / lyrics: "Margarita Margaro")
 
1959 Honeymoon (writer: "Honeymoon Song")
 
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1972 State of Siege (conductor)
 
1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (musical director)
 
1962 Athens by Night (documentary) (orchestra)
 
1961 The Shadow of the Cat (conductor)
 
1960 Faces in the Dark (conductor)
 
1953 The Barefoot Battalion (conductor)
 
Show ShowActor (2 titles)
1988 Muy personal (TV series)
– Episode dated 17 January 1988 (1988)
 
1974 The Rehearsal
 
Show ShowThanks (3 titles)
2007 Modern Greeks: Constantinos Karamanlis (TV documentary) (special thanks)
 
2007 Modern Greeks: Michael Cacoyannis (TV documentary) (special thanks)
 
2007 Modern Greeks: Mikis Theodorakis (TV documentary) (thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (18 titles)
2010 85 hronia Mikis Theodorakis (TV movie)
Himself
 
2010 Mikis Theodorakis - The Composer of Poets and Visions from 1950 to the Present
Himself
 
2010 Antres tis hronias 2009 (TV movie)
Himself
 
2009 Mikis Theodorakis: The Color of Freedom - An Outline of the Composer's Early Years (1925-1950) (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2008 My Life and Times: Michael Cacoyannis (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Otan giortazoun oi theoi (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
2007 People of Peace (documentary short)
Himself (voice)
 
2006 Ein Lied für Argyris (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Monogram (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Mikis Theodorakis (2005) … Himself
 
2003 Ein Star und seine Stadt (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Vicky Leandros - Meine griechische Heimat (2003) … Himself
 
2003 Deka mikroi Mitsoi (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 5 March 2003 (2003) … Himself
 
1987 Sábado noche (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 7 November 1987 (1987) … Himself
 
1987 Àngel Casas show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #3.29 (1987) … Himself
 
1975 Tragoudia tis fotias (documentary)
 
1974 Mikis Theodorakis: A Profile of Greekness (documentary)
Himself
 
1973 To bouzouki (documentary)
Himself
 
1972 Le grand échiquier (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.9 (1972) … Himself
 
1969 Unser Sandmännchen (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 26 August 1969 (1969) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
2011 La Crida, història d'una resposta (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Diktatoria ton Syntagmatarhon (TV documentary)
Himself
 

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A Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1967 for the leftist EDA party, in 1970 he was exiled after various imprisonments for political reasons and returned to Greece in 1974. See more »

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