Faidon Sofianos

Production

Faidon Sofianos

Born

1952-11-04 (73)

Place of birth

Constantinople, Turkey

Known for

Production

Credits

10 titles

Phaedon Sofianos (born November 4, 1952 in Istanbul) is a Greek director, composer and television producer, member of the Sofianos Family. He was born in Istanbul to a Greek father and a German mother. His sister is Ivi Sofianou and his parents are Brigitte Sofianou and Dimos Sofianos. When he was nine years old, the whole family came and settled in Greece, specifically in Nea Smyrni. He graduated from the German School of Athens, studied at the Law School of Athens and did postgraduate studies in corporate law in Freiburg, West Germany. He worked as a German teacher with the Goethe Institute of Athens and with the Moraiti, Marouda and Ag. Friday. He studied photography at the Stavrakos Sch…

Known for

Tales from the fairytale box poster
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A children's series with puppets and actors, produced by the Sofianos family. In it stars a little girl, Paraskevi, and her box of puppets which are named Sevastianos, Fiogkos, Rouchlas and Melia. As soon as night falls and Paraskevi goes to her bedroom to sleep, she opens the box and the puppets recount to her folk tales from all over the world. The fairy tales were collected by Ivi Sofianou from libraries in Munich. The series premiered on Friday, February 5, 1988 and ran for 22 episodes.

Tales from the fairytale box

1988

Froutopia poster
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Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

Froutopia

1985

The treasure of Vagia poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The treasure of Vagia

1984

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

FraPaidia me MarEllada

2004

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NR

Adult tvshow by Ivi Sofianou and Phaidon Sofianos on ANT1

Psarokostoula Agapi Mou

1990

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Children's tvshow

Hiliopodarousa

1983

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Froutopia poster
NR

Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

Froutopia

1985

Froutopia poster
NR

Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

Froutopia

1985

Froutopia poster
NR

Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

Froutopia

1985