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Vangelis Gerovassiliou
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou ( el, Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου ; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis ( ; el, Βαγγέλης, links=no ), was a Greek composer and arranger of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to ''Chariots of Fire'' (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films ''Blade Runner'' (1982), ''Missing (1982 film), Missing'' (1982), ''Antarctica (1983 film), Antarctica'' (1983), ''The Bounty (1984 film), The Bounty'' (1984), ''1492: Conquest of Paradise'' (1992), and ''Alexander (2004 film), Alexander'' (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series ''Cosmos: A Personal Voyage'' by Carl Sagan. Born in Agria and raised in Athens, Vangelis began his career in the 1960s as a member of the rock bands The Forminx and Aphrodite's Child; the latter's album ''666 (Aphrodite's Child album), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Greco (2007 Film)
''El Greco'' is a Greek biographical film about the life of the Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known worldwide as El Greco. Based on the fictionalized biographical novel, ''El Greco: o Zografos tou Theou'' (''El Greco: the Painter of God''), by Dimitris Siatopoulos, it was released in 2007, directed by Yannis Smaragdis and written by Jackie Pavlenko. The main cast features prominent contemporary Greek actors like Lakis Lazopoulos, Dimitra Matsouka and Dina Konsta, and includes popular actors of the Greek cinema of the 1960s such as Sotiris Moustakas and Katerina Helmi, who, along with Juan Diego Botto, Laia Marull and others, surround the leading actor, Nick Ashdon, who portrays El Greco. Plot The film tells a fictitious story of Domenicos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco, a great Greek artist of the 16th century with an uncompromising character, who sets off from his homeland Crete and goes to Venice and finally Toledo, in search of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
