Antonis Lepeniotis

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Antonis Lepeniotis ( Greek Ἀντώνης Λεπενιώτης Andonis Lepeniótis , born April 20, 1932 in Athens ; † July 23, 2004 ibid) was a Greek film director and screenwriter .

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After training as a set designer, he moved to Vienna in 1957 . Here he initially worked as an actor and set designer at the Theater der Courage and the Atelier-Theater.

Lepeniotis began working as a film director in 1964 with short experimental documentary strips. In 1968 he represented with his experimental film The Death of Dr. Antonio through the renaissance of intellectual society , an aperçu about the isolated, over-civilized people, Austria at the international film festival in Knokke .

In 1970 his first feature film, Alkeste, or The Meaning of Protection, caused a sensation , in which he used the Alkestis material in a polemic against the military regime in Greece. It was at the same time the first essential work of the New Austrian Cinema . In addition to numerous documentaries produced by ORF , Lepeniotis also directed other feature films with Das Manifest (1974) and Enterprise V2 (1976) / Operation Hydra (1980), an examination of misconduct during the Nazi era.

literature

  • Herbert Holba , Günter Knorr, Peter Spiegel: Reclams German Film Lexicon. Film artist from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Reclam, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-15-010330-4 .

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SURNAME Lepeniotis, Antonis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2004
Place of death Athens