
Directing
Manos Zacharias
Born
1922-07-10 (104)
Place of birth
Thiseio, Athens, Attica, Greece
Known for
Directing
Credits
16 titles
Emmanuel "Manos" Zacharias (Greek: Εμμανουήλ «Μάνος» Ζαχαρίας; born 9 July 1922) is a Greek film director, cinematographer and actor, who was active in Greek and Soviet cinema. Determined to become a cinematographer, he enrolled in IDHEC (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques) and at the same time studied History of Art at the Sorbonne. In 1947, the decision was made by the KKE to centrally collect cinematographic and photographic equipment and to allocate it accordingly to cover the political-military needs of the time. In the spring of 1948, with two wind-up cinematographic cameras, a 35 mm and a 16 "Payar", as well as boxes of film, he crossed the Yugoslav border and entered Gree…
Known for
NRA young, stubborn and undisciplined man goes to serve in the army, where he will understand the need for military service...
I'm a Soldier Mom
1967
10.0A sad story about a series of tragic events which happened in Greece during the seventies.
Punisher
1968
9.0The film tells about the inhabitants of the Russian city of Tsaritsyn-Stalingrad-Volgograd. The film consists of three novellas, united by the theme of love and the scene - a city on the Volga.
The City of First Love
1971
4.5The story of Greek patriots' struggle against the Nazi invaders in May 1941, when German troops landed on the island of Crete. Fleeing the Germans, seven people, completely different in their views and personalities, come together: communist Memos, who has escaped from prison; military doctor Kimon, fleeing from the hospital; nurse Alika and nurse Krinjo, a gendarme; and two soldiers—a Greek and a New Zealander who has fallen behind.
The End and the Beginning
1963
NRSoviet journalist Ksenia Troitskaya meets Greek film director Memos Yanidis in Moscow, where he is working on an anti-fascist film. As they stroll along the Arbat, they dream of one day meeting again at the corner of Arbat and Bouboulina Street in Athens. But upon returning to his homeland, Memos is imprisoned.
At the Corner of Arbat and Bouboulina
1973
6.0Georges Pradier, a Parisian journalist on his way to make a movie, agrees to give an Algerian man a ride in his car at the request of an acquaintance. He discovers that the bag his passenger is carrying contains forty-four million francs collected for a fund to help the struggling Algeria.
Night Passenger
1962
Film credits
1960s · 3 titles
6.0Georges Pradier, a Parisian journalist on his way to make a movie, agrees to give an Algerian man a ride in his car at the request of an acquaintance. He discovers that the bag his passenger is carrying contains forty-four million francs collected for a fund to help the struggling Algeria.
Night Passenger
1962
No synopsis available yet.
See You Tomorrow...
1965
7.0Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Napoleonic army is retreating. Three Russian soldiers settled in a snowy forest near a fire: a young (Zaletayev), an elderly and a middle-aged one. Zaletayev fantasizes — as if he had captured Napoleon. The soldiers laugh good-naturedly at him. After dinner, they fall asleep... Two Frenchmen go to the clearing — an officer and a soldier. Russian soldiers wake up and, seeing that the officer is barely standing on his feet from cold and hunger, take him to the colonel. The French soldier sits down to the fire. The Russians give him porridge and vodka. The soldier, encouraged, sings a french song. Zaletayev echoes him. A tired Frenchman falls asleep on Zaletayev’s shoulder. The soldiers carefully shelter him. “Also people,” an elderly soldier says with a sigh.
Also People
1960
Behind the camera
NRA young, stubborn and undisciplined man goes to serve in the army, where he will understand the need for military service...
I'm a Soldier Mom
1967
10.0A sad story about a series of tragic events which happened in Greece during the seventies.
Punisher
1968
9.0The film tells about the inhabitants of the Russian city of Tsaritsyn-Stalingrad-Volgograd. The film consists of three novellas, united by the theme of love and the scene - a city on the Volga.
The City of First Love
1971
4.5The story of Greek patriots' struggle against the Nazi invaders in May 1941, when German troops landed on the island of Crete. Fleeing the Germans, seven people, completely different in their views and personalities, come together: communist Memos, who has escaped from prison; military doctor Kimon, fleeing from the hospital; nurse Alika and nurse Krinjo, a gendarme; and two soldiers—a Greek and a New Zealander who has fallen behind.
The End and the Beginning
1963
NRSoviet journalist Ksenia Troitskaya meets Greek film director Memos Yanidis in Moscow, where he is working on an anti-fascist film. As they stroll along the Arbat, they dream of one day meeting again at the corner of Arbat and Bouboulina Street in Athens. But upon returning to his homeland, Memos is imprisoned.
At the Corner of Arbat and Bouboulina
1973
6.0Georges Pradier, a Parisian journalist on his way to make a movie, agrees to give an Algerian man a ride in his car at the request of an acquaintance. He discovers that the bag his passenger is carrying contains forty-four million francs collected for a fund to help the struggling Algeria.
Night Passenger
1962
1.0Bela Frankl, a young Hungarian, is taken prisoner by Russia during the First World War, defects to the side of the revolution and some time later, under the pseudonym Mate Zalka, becomes a famous Soviet writer. In 1936, having arrived as a volunteer in Spain, he becomes General Lukacs, forms the 12th International Brigade of non-professional fighters and takes the first heavy battles with Franco's cadre formations...
Fedneve: Lukács
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Утренний рейс
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Утренний рейс
1960
5.8The young man Nikolos is forced to engage in the fishing of sea sponges in order to get the hand of the beautiful Lenio. This work makes him a cripple, and marriage to his beloved does not bring happiness.
Sponge Catchers
1960
NRThe film was shot by the DSE (Democratic Army of Greece) in 1948. The filming took place in Grammos and Vitsi, an area that the DSE had under its control during most of the Civil War (the so-called "Free Greece") and in the adjacent communist countries, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It was first shown in Hungary and then in the other member countries of the "communist Paradise". The original film, which was considered lost for many years, was located in Hungary a few years ago. The subject of the film is "Child-Rescue" (or "Child-Rescue" as the KKE calls it).
The truth about the children of Greece
1948


