Directing

Leonidas Vardaros

Born 1950-01-01 · Ikaria, Greece

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Women Fighters – 3rd Part 1960–1974 poster
NR

With the completion of the third part of the trilogy, a debt is also repaid to the anonymous women who stood up in dark times – from the 1-1-4 movement and the Lambrakis Youth to the torture chambers of EAT-ESA and the General Security. Portraits of ordinary women who experienced firsthand the true value of struggle.

Women Fighters – 3rd Part 1960–1974

2026

Ludlow, Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War poster
10.0

The Colorado Coal war is described as the bloodiest page of the US labor movement. In this violent confrontation between Rockefeller and the UMWA Trade Union, a vital part was played by 500 Greek miners who became the backbone of the guerrilla army formed by the union to avenge the Ludlow Massacre – the murder of 20 women and children and of the Greek leader Louis Tikas on April 20th, 1914. The documentary tells the unknown story of this conflict, illuminating the special role of the Greeks, with testimonies of descendants of strikers, interviews with historians and with rare archival material (video interviews of survivors, photos, newspaper articles, rare texts and songs).

Ludlow, Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War

2016

Ludlow, Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War poster
10.0

The Colorado Coal war is described as the bloodiest page of the US labor movement. In this violent confrontation between Rockefeller and the UMWA Trade Union, a vital part was played by 500 Greek miners who became the backbone of the guerrilla army formed by the union to avenge the Ludlow Massacre – the murder of 20 women and children and of the Greek leader Louis Tikas on April 20th, 1914. The documentary tells the unknown story of this conflict, illuminating the special role of the Greeks, with testimonies of descendants of strikers, interviews with historians and with rare archival material (video interviews of survivors, photos, newspaper articles, rare texts and songs).

Ludlow, Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War

2016

Women Fighters: The Third Liberation poster
NR

Women in the political and social struggles of the 20th century, in the battle for survival, on the path of prison, exile and the firing squad. Punished for their struggle for a better life, for their struggle against the occupiers, for their struggle for national independence and Democracy.

Women Fighters: The Third Liberation

2022

Women Fighters: The Third Liberation poster
NR

Women in the political and social struggles of the 20th century, in the battle for survival, on the path of prison, exile and the firing squad. Punished for their struggle for a better life, for their struggle against the occupiers, for their struggle for national independence and Democracy.

Women Fighters: The Third Liberation

2022

Women Fighters - 2nd part 1944-1960 poster
NR

National liberation, British intervention, December uprising, Civil War. The left-wing organizations -KKE, EAM, EPON- have been banned. The only organization that operates openly is PEOPEF, through which the mothers, wives, and sisters of the imprisoned, exiled and those fighters facing the firing squads, battle for the salvation of their loved ones.

Women Fighters - 2nd part 1944-1960

2025

All of us, efendi poster
NR

A glimpse of the Greek Civil War, which followed soon after the end of WW2, as it was experienced in the remote and rather peculiar island of Ikaria. After the defeat of the Democratic Army of Greece on Samos island, several men attempt to escape certain death at the hands of the Greek government. The loose film plot does incorporate many local stories and legends from that dark period, as well as older tales.

All of us, efendi

1998

All of us, efendi poster
NR

A glimpse of the Greek Civil War, which followed soon after the end of WW2, as it was experienced in the remote and rather peculiar island of Ikaria. After the defeat of the Democratic Army of Greece on Samos island, several men attempt to escape certain death at the hands of the Greek government. The loose film plot does incorporate many local stories and legends from that dark period, as well as older tales.

All of us, efendi

1998