Dinos Dimopoulos ( el, Ντίνος Δημόπουλος; 22 August 1921 – 28 February 2003) was a Greek actor,

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

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and

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. He directed more than 40 films between 1953 and 1993. His 1959 film ''

Astero ''Astero'' ( el, Αστέρω) is a 1959 Greek drama film directed by Dinos Dimopoulos. It was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Aliki Vougiouklaki - Astero * Titos Vandis - Mitros Pithokoukouras * Dimitris Papami ...

'' was entered into the

9th Berlin International Film Festival The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François T ...

. His 1960 film ''

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'' was entered into the

1961 Cannes Film Festival The 14th Cannes Film Festival was held from 3 to 18 May 1961. The Palme d'Or went to the ''Une aussi longue absence'', directed by Henri Colpi and ''Viridiana'', directed by Luis Buñuel. The festival opened with ''Che gioia vivere'', directed by ...

. He wrote also some theatrical plays. He has won the best director award in

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for the film '' The Asphalt Fever''.

Selected filmography

* '' Heaven Is Ours'' (1953) * '' The Big Streets'' (1953) * '' Happy Beginning'' (1954) * ''

'' (1959) * ''

Stournara 288 ''Stournara 288'' (Στουρνάρα 288) (filmed in 1959) was a drama by Dinos Dimopoulos with Orestis Makris, Smaroula Giouli, Sofia Vembo, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Dinos Iliopoulos. It was bitter and nostalgic eyes on its alienation on Ath ...

'' (1959) * ''

'' (1960) * ''

Oi kyries tis avlis ''Oi kyries tis avlis'' ( el, Οι κυρίες της αυλής/ English: Ladies of the Courtyard) is a 1966 Greek film based on the theatrical play ''To ekto patoma'' (''Το έκτο πάτωμα'' = ''The Next Step''). It was made into a movi ...

'' (1966) * '' The Asphalt Fever'' (1967) * '' A Teacher with Blonde Hair'' (1969) * ''

Agapisa mia polythrona ''I Loved an Armchair'' ( el, Αγάπησα μια πολυθρόνα, translit=Agapisa Mia Polythrona, italic=yes) is a 1971 Greek film directed by Dinos Dimopoulos and produced by Karagiannis-Karatzopoulos S.A. starring Kostas Voutsas, Eleni ...

'' (1971)

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* 1921 births 2003 deaths People from Aktio-Vonitsa Greek film directors Greek screenwriters Greek documentary filmmakers Greek theatre directors Greek dramatists and playwrights Greek writers 20th-century Greek male actors 20th-century screenwriters {{Greece-film-director-stub