Theofilos, the Painter

O ζωγράφος Θεόφιλος

A documentary on the life and work of Theofilos, the most famous Greek naif painter.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Giorgos Karypidis
Script: Giorgos Karypidis
Cinematography: Nikos Petanidis
Editing: Yannis Tsitsopoulos
Sound: Giorgos Biris
Producers: Yorgos Sgourakis
Narration: Fanis Hinas
Format: 16mm
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 1979
Duration: 51΄
Awards/Distinctions: Best Short Film Award, Best Short Film Thessaloniki Municipality Award 1979, Best Short Film Athens Film Critics Association Award 1979– 20th Thessaloniki Greek Film Festival 1979

The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival honors the memoryThe Thessaloniki Documentary Festival honors the memoryof the recently deceased filmmaker with a special screeningof a rarely seen short that won the First Prize and theGreek Film Critics Award at the Thessaloniki Festival in 1979.

Giorgos Karypidis

Filmography

1967 Limit (short fiction)
1975 Last Stop: Kreuzberg (short)
1979 The Painter Theophilos
1982 Dangerous Game (fiction)
1986 Witches (TV)
1988 In the Shadow of Fear (fiction)
1992 Dead Liquor (fiction)
1995 Bewitched (fiction)
2004 Utopia (fiction)
2012 And God made the... Greeks (fiction)