Manousos Manousakis

Directing

Manousos Manousakis

Born 1950-01-14 · Athens, Greece

Manousos Manousakis (Greek: Μανούσος Μανουσάκης; 14 January 1950 – 20 November 2024) was a Greek director, producer and writer. His paternal family is from Avdou Heraklion. He studied at the London Film School. He was married to Maria, and together they had two children. He was a nephew of Irene Papas and first cousin of Aias Manthopoulos. Manousos Manousakis died in Athens on 20 November 2024, at the age of 74

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Enchantress poster
9.0

Combining Greek popular tradition and magic realist irrationalism, it tells the story of a 17-year-old youth who runs away from his village to find The Enchantress, a beautiful fairy feared by all. Travelling through an enchanted world of ghosts, spirits, imps and fairies, he leans what true love and passion really are.

The Enchantress

1985

The Enchantress poster
9.0

Combining Greek popular tradition and magic realist irrationalism, it tells the story of a 17-year-old youth who runs away from his village to find The Enchantress, a beautiful fairy feared by all. Travelling through an enchanted world of ghosts, spirits, imps and fairies, he leans what true love and passion really are.

The Enchantress

1985

The Enchantress poster
9.0

Combining Greek popular tradition and magic realist irrationalism, it tells the story of a 17-year-old youth who runs away from his village to find The Enchantress, a beautiful fairy feared by all. Travelling through an enchanted world of ghosts, spirits, imps and fairies, he leans what true love and passion really are.

The Enchantress

1985

Reverse course poster
NR

As a coincidental event unites a publisher and a hospital manager, sinister revelations entangle the couple with the aspiration of an editor-in-chief. Will he unearth the truth? After all, almost everybody has a skeleton in the closet.

Reverse course

1987

Ouzeri Tsitsanis poster
5.8

During World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in love with a Jewish, Estrea, something completely forbidden. Can they and their families overcome all the obstacles, along with racial discriminations and hardship? The story mainly takes place in an ouzeria, in which Tsitsanis works, one of the greatest Greek composer, librettist and singer in the 20th century.

Ouzeri Tsitsanis

2015

Power poster
8.0

An abstract tale of a society that exploits everyone and everything. A closed societal system is run by a class of rulers composed of priests, elders, politicians, bankers, and military men. All these people prostitute themselves in order to exercise power with the same ease that they drink their coffee.

Power

1977

Power poster
8.0

An abstract tale of a society that exploits everyone and everything. A closed societal system is run by a class of rulers composed of priests, elders, politicians, bankers, and military men. All these people prostitute themselves in order to exercise power with the same ease that they drink their coffee.

Power

1977

Bartolomeo poster
7.0

A surreal, anarchic and plotless movie about a man who tries to take up his dead father's business, taking aim against contemporary Greek reality. Banned by the Greek dictatorship.

Bartolomeo

1973

Bartolomeo poster
7.0

A surreal, anarchic and plotless movie about a man who tries to take up his dead father's business, taking aim against contemporary Greek reality. Banned by the Greek dictatorship.

Bartolomeo

1973

Παράξενη συνάντηση poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Παράξενη συνάντηση

1986