Nikos Tsiforos

Nikos Tsiforos Νίκος Τσιφόρος
Born	1912 Alexandria, Egypt
Died	1970 Athens, Greece
Occupation	Screenwriter Film director
Years active	1948 - 1970

Nikos Tsiforos (Greek: Νίκος Τσιφόρος, 1912 – 6 August 1970) was a Greek screenwriter and film director. He wrote 64 films between 1948 and 1970. He also directed 17 films between 1948 and 1961.

Biography

He was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1912. Two years later, his family was resettled alone in Athens. When he was eleven, Nikos Tsiforos began to educate furiously with writing, he also wrote his first play in 1938 in a summer theatre in Freattyda. His first try successed but Nikos did not disapproved. From there he took the degree at law, worked for the two years at the Election Council and later resigned for boating in ships. He continued to change in 1939, but he continued to write in films in different writings. His first big success was in 1944 by the companies of Dimitris Horn and Mairi Aroni elevated himself into the Akropol Theatre, his theatrical work I pinakothiki ton ilithion. Four years later, he made a periodical in 1948 and 1949 and did his first film in which renamed with the title Teleftea apostoli, even as a director and a writer.

In his later years, he wrote in different newspapers including Fileleftheros, Vima and Eleftheros Kosmos and in periodicals Trust, Romantso, Tahidromos (The Post) and Panthoeon where he wrote over 40 theatrical works and over 80 plays. One of these wrote only by himself and otherwise as he worked mainly with Polyvios Vassiliadis (in which he ran one of the most important twins of theatrical works).

Tsiforos died on August 6, 1970.

Plays

• Anthropi ke anthropakia (Άνθρωποι και ανθρωπάκια)
• Athens Today, Cruises Inside History (Η Αθήνα σήμερα - Κρουαζιέρες μέσα στην ιστορία (I Athina simera - Krouazieres mesa stin istoria)
• Beautiful Thessaloniki (Όμορφη Θεσσαλονίκη = Omorfi Thessaloniki)
• Children from the Piazza (Τα παιδιά της πιάτσας (Ta pedia tis piatsas)
• Diyimata (Διηγήματα)
• Eortastika (Εορταστικά)
• The First Tsiforos (Ο πρώτος Τσιφόρος = O Protos Tsiforos)
• Milon Firikis (Μίλων Φιρίκης)
• Greek cruises (Ελληνική κρουαζιέρα)
• Greek mythology (Ελληνική μυθολογία)
• O Gulliver stin hora ton Gigandon - O Gulliver stin hora ton nanon (Ο Γκιούλιβερ στη χώρα των Γιγάντων - Ο Γκιούλιβερ στη χώρα των νάνων, first part, Gulliver in the Land of the Giants)
• The History of Athens (Η Ιστορία της Αθήνας (I Istoria tis Athinas)
• History of England (Ιστορία της Αγγλίας (Istoria tis Anglias)
• History of France (Ιστορία της Γαλλίας (Istoria tis Galias)
• History of the United States (Ιστορία των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών (Istoria ton Ipomenon Polition))
• Hronografimata (Χρονογραφήματα)
• Jim the Bad Poet (Τζιμ κακής ποιότητος (Jim kakis piotitos)
• I konkistradori (Οι κονκισταδόροι)
• My Lucky Star (Το τυχερό μου αστέρι (To tihero mou asteri)
• Ta paliopeda t atithassa (Τα παλιόπαιδα τ' ατίθασα)
• Ourselves and the Franks (Εμείς και οι Φράγκοι)
• Paramithis pisso apo ta kagela (Παραμύθια πίσω από τα κάγκελα)
• People and People (Ο κόσμος κι ο κοσμάκης (O kosmos ki o kosmakis)
• I pinakothiki ton ilithion (Η πινακοθήκη των ηλιθίων)
• Ta remalia iroes (Τα ρεμάλια ήρωες)
• Steve to haroumeno katharma ('Στηβ το χαρούμενο κάθαρμα )
• Secret Companies (Οι μυστικές εταιρίες = I mistikes eteries)
• Vivliki hamoyela (Βιβλικά χαμόγελα)
• I yineka koursaros (Η γυναίκα κουρσάρος)

Selected filmography

Year	Film	Transliteraion and translation
1950	The Last Mission	Τελευταία αποστολή Teleftaia apostoloi
1951	To paidi mou prepei na zisei	Το παιδί μου πρέπει να ζήσει
1953	The Tower of Knights	Ο πύργος των ιπποτών O pirgos ton ipoton
1954	The Little Mouse	Το ποντικάκι To pondikaki
1954	O anemos tou missous	Ο άνεμος του μίσους
1954	I oraia ton Athinon	Η ωραία των Αθηνών
1955	Γλέντι, λεφτά και αγάπη	Glendi, lefta ke agapi
1956	Gypsy Blood	Τσιγγάνικο αίμα Tsiganiko ema
1957	The Three Detectives	Τρεις ντεντέκτιβς Tris detectives
1957	The Lady	Ο γυναικάς O yinekas
1958	The Money	Ο λεφτάς O leftas
1959	O thisavros tou makariti	Ο θησαυρός του μακαρίτη
1960	Treis koukles ki ego	Τρεις κούκλες κι εγώ
1960	O Klearchos i Marina kai o kontos	Ο Κλέαρχος η Μαρίνα και ο κοντός
1967	Oh! That Wife of Mine	-

Bibliography

• Sylvia Mittler, "The Crusades and Frankish Medieval Greece as (Re)Appropriation: Carnivalesque Historiography and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos." In: Postmodern Medievalisms, ed. Richard Utz and Jesse G. Swan (Cambridge: Brewer, 2004), pp. 209–36.
• Sylvia Mittler, "Subversive Storytelling: Popular Historiography, Alternative Cultural Memory, and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos." In: Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity, ed. Francisco Cota Fagundes and Irene Maria F. Blayer (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 171–88.

External links

• Nikos Tsiforos at the Internet Movie Database
• The Nikos Tsiforos Unofficial Page

Persondata
Name	Tsiforos, Nikos
Alternative names
Short description	Screenwriter, Film director
Date of birth	1912
Place of birth	Alexandria, Egypt
Date of death	August 6, 1970
Place of death	Athens, Greece