Writing

Stratis Karras

Known for

Writing

Credits

7 titles

Stratis Karras (1934-1992). Stratis Karras was born in the village of Trigona on Lesvos, the son of George Karras and Irene nee Aivalikli. His father was a marble sculptor. His parents divorced a few months after his birth, so Karras grew up with his mother. He spent his early childhood in his hometown. Due to his illness from tonsillitis and the need for hospitalization, he lived from 1944 in Mytilini, where he finished elementary school and enrolled in high school. In 1953 he settled in Athens where he finished high school. He studied at the Film School of Lykourgos Stavrakos (1955-1956) and the Drama School of Pelos Katselis, where after graduation he taught acting until Katselis' death i…

Known for

The Hunters poster
7.6

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…

The Hunters

1977

Days of '36 poster
6.4

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

Days of '36

1972

The Bleeding Statues poster
10.0

A group of minors escape from a reformatory and lock themselves in a museum on an island, threatening to destroy the statues if their demands are not met.

The Bleeding Statues

1982

1922 poster
5.7

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.

1922

1978

Reconstruction poster
7.0

An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event.

Reconstruction

1970

On Course poster
7.5

A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War.

On Course

1985

Behind the camera

The Hunters poster
7.6

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…

The Hunters

1977

Days of '36 poster
6.4

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

Days of '36

1972

The Bleeding Statues poster
10.0

A group of minors escape from a reformatory and lock themselves in a museum on an island, threatening to destroy the statues if their demands are not met.

The Bleeding Statues

1982

1922 poster
5.7

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.

1922

1978

Reconstruction poster
7.0

An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event.

Reconstruction

1970

On Course poster
7.5

A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War.

On Course

1985

The Girl with Golden Hair poster
9.0

Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of many locals to abandon the village for the big city or other countries. He works hard to organize traditional cultural events, such as outdoor performances of the traditional play I Chrissomalloussa, in order to solidify local values and a sense of identity. The teacher is aided by a young woman, a widow who has just returned from Germany and lives with her father-in-law. Kazan walks away with the film, as his sinister desires for his daughter-in-law are inflamed when he sees that she has fallen in love with the teacher. These developments lead him to whip up protests against the play by conservative locals, claiming that the teacher has changed the traditional story by adding elements of propaganda with the potential of causing peasant uprisings. The result is an unexpectedly violent example of social censorship.

The Girl with Golden Hair

1978