Directing
Kostas Sfikas
Born — Died
1927-01-01 — 2019-05-25
Place of birth
Athens, Greece
Known for
Directing
Credits
29 titles
Kostas Sfikas (Greek: Κώστας Σφήκας, Athens, 1927 - Athens 25 May 2009) was a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor. For his film The Model he won half the award for best feature film at the 15th Greek Film Festival. In 1961 he started as a documentary filmmaker with his short films Inauguration (1962), which is recorded as a directed documentary, Waiting (1963) and Theraic Morning (1968), co-directed by Stavros Tornes, which was later purchased by the MOMA in New York. During the years of the dictatorship he seems to have developed a completely different cinematic approach - problematic, completely outside of anything that had been seen in domestic cinema up to that point. Dedicated t…
Known for
10.0This is an experimental film featuring an allegorical audiovisual symphony of image, text (excerpts from works by Proust and verses from Rilke’s poetry) and music through the use of archival photographs taken from Illustration Magazine. It focuses on the urban establishment and links the wave of Western colonization to the period right before the Great War (1914-1918).
Metropoles
1975
5.0In this Greek romantic comedy, Athens bus lines manager Voulis (Giorgos Ninios) has given up trying to salvage his marriage. Instead, he devotes time and energy to feeling-up cute commuters, eventually developing a fascination with one passenger in particular.
Touch Me Not
1996
7.0A poetic documentary about the island of Santorini.
Thirean Matins
1968
6.4A wealthy member of the upper classes and his three sons withdraw to a country villa where they spend their days in complete idleness, having everything done for them by their young and beautiful maid. They surrender to the pleasure of sleep, while idleness permeates the tiny world of these living dead, with the exception of the woman who is the sole representative of positive values, will-power and action. Finally, the youngest son will try to break free.
The Idlers of the Fertile Valley
1978
6.6The ruins of paganism and the birth of Christianity portrayed by immobile people along with music.
Allegory
1986
6.4A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early morning hours. An unknown man suddenly comes into the shot, then walks into the sea holding an umbrella and seizes to exist, before the bewildered eyes of the whole crew. After the police are notified, a confusing array of red tape manoeuvers begins, revealing the close affiliations of the Authorities with the advertising company manager and the whole mechanism of Mass Media, all of which are trying not to investigate the event but to conceal or even exploit it in their own interest. Only the musician involved in that commercial is trying to figure out what really happened.
The Colors of Iris
1974
Film credits
2000s · 1 titles
1990s · 4 titles
5.0In this Greek romantic comedy, Athens bus lines manager Voulis (Giorgos Ninios) has given up trying to salvage his marriage. Instead, he devotes time and energy to feeling-up cute commuters, eventually developing a fascination with one passenger in particular.
Touch Me Not
1996
3.7Explores gender equality and how it affects relationships and love in the 1990s. Plot concerns Anna, an actress who is performing in a play about a woman artist who had to dress as a man order to attend lectures forbidden to women, and her brief affair with Andreas, a drop-out working as a bar waiter.
A Drop in the Ocean
1996
7.0A timeless poetic wandering in the international museum of vanity with Don Quixote as the guide.
The Triumph of Time
1996
NRAn experimental film that ventures a post-modern take on the tragedy of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound.
Prometheus Retrogressing
1998
1980s · 3 titles
7.2Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.
The Woman Who Dreamed
1988
6.0At the turn of the twentieth century a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the arch-brigand and realizes that the underground life and moral code of his kidnappers actually represent a more genuine expression of “New Hellenism” than his bourgeois well-being.
When the Greeks
1981
6.2A 30-year-old man returns from America suffering an existential crisis. He goes to Corfu to see his sick mother and tries to find happiness through a desperate love affair.
Melodrama?
1980
1970s · 5 titles
6.4A wealthy member of the upper classes and his three sons withdraw to a country villa where they spend their days in complete idleness, having everything done for them by their young and beautiful maid. They surrender to the pleasure of sleep, while idleness permeates the tiny world of these living dead, with the exception of the woman who is the sole representative of positive values, will-power and action. Finally, the youngest son will try to break free.
The Idlers of the Fertile Valley
1978
6.4A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early morning hours. An unknown man suddenly comes into the shot, then walks into the sea holding an umbrella and seizes to exist, before the bewildered eyes of the whole crew. After the police are notified, a confusing array of red tape manoeuvers begins, revealing the close affiliations of the Authorities with the advertising company manager and the whole mechanism of Mass Media, all of which are trying not to investigate the event but to conceal or even exploit it in their own interest. Only the musician involved in that commercial is trying to figure out what really happened.
The Colors of Iris
1974
6.4The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.
Days of '36
1972
6.5The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
John the Violent
1973
6.0Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.
Kierion
1974
Undated · 1 titles
Behind the camera
10.0This is an experimental film featuring an allegorical audiovisual symphony of image, text (excerpts from works by Proust and verses from Rilke’s poetry) and music through the use of archival photographs taken from Illustration Magazine. It focuses on the urban establishment and links the wave of Western colonization to the period right before the Great War (1914-1918).
Metropoles
1975
10.0This is an experimental film featuring an allegorical audiovisual symphony of image, text (excerpts from works by Proust and verses from Rilke’s poetry) and music through the use of archival photographs taken from Illustration Magazine. It focuses on the urban establishment and links the wave of Western colonization to the period right before the Great War (1914-1918).
Metropoles
1975
7.0A poetic documentary about the island of Santorini.
Thirean Matins
1968
6.6The ruins of paganism and the birth of Christianity portrayed by immobile people along with music.
Allegory
1986
6.6The ruins of paganism and the birth of Christianity portrayed by immobile people along with music.
Allegory
1986
6.5200 BC. During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of woman become inextricably intertwined, as the omnipotence of the carnal instinct demands the total surrender of the flesh.
Young Aphrodites
1963
7.0An experimental film featuring a split screen. On the right, a number of people appear moving upwards - symbolizing the ruling class. On the left, we see a production line in a factory, where the products of human labor pass by. Towards the end, the products become human body parts. The film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital.
Model
1974
7.0An experimental film featuring a split screen. On the right, a number of people appear moving upwards - symbolizing the ruling class. On the left, we see a production line in a factory, where the products of human labor pass by. Towards the end, the products become human body parts. The film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital.
Model
1974
NRAn experimental film that ventures a post-modern take on the tragedy of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound.
Prometheus Retrogressing
1998
NRAn experimental film that ventures a post-modern take on the tragedy of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound.
Prometheus Retrogressing
1998
A film by Kostas Sfikas.
The Woman... and the Collector - Allegory III
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6.0Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.
Kierion
1974
Salesman Gregor Samsa transforms into a reptile from the materials of his merchandise. The affection of his family, who lose their main source of income, turns to hatred and they kill him. They throw him in the trash...
Metamorphosis
2006
Salesman Gregor Samsa transforms into a reptile from the materials of his merchandise. The affection of his family, who lose their main source of income, turns to hatred and they kill him. They throw him in the trash...
Metamorphosis
2006
A film by Kostas Sfikas.
Paul Klee's prophetic bird of sorrows
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