Born in Athens in 1940, Pantelis Voulgaris is a leading Greek director, who made his debut with The Matchmaking of Anna (1972), which won first prize at the Thessaloniki festival, under the colonels' junta. Stone Years (1985) deals with political prisoners in the years after the civil war. The Striker with Number 9 (1989) and Quiet Days in August (1991) were in competition at Berlin. Brides (2004), a story of Greek women who emigrate to the United States as picture brides in 1922, produced by Martin Scorsese, was Greece's most expensive film at the time. He also made Little England (2013).
Awards (from the Sinekatalog award pages)
- 1974 · Berlin International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize at Berlinale — Anna's Engagement
- 2014 · Shanghai International Film Festival: Best Director (Golden Goblet Award for Best Director) — Little England
- 2014 · Shanghai International Film Festival: Best Film (Golden Goblet Award for Best Feature Film) — Little England
Filmography
- Anna's Engagement 1972 · IMDb 6.9
- Happy Day 1976 · IMDb 6.4
- Stone Years 1985 · IMDb 7.7 · 1,038 votes
- Quiet Days in August 1991 · IMDb 6.8
- Akropol 1996 · IMDb 6.3
- It's a Long Road 1998 · IMDb 7.9 · 2,955 votes
- Brides 2004 · IMDb 7.6 · 5,374 votes
- With Heart & Soul 2009 · IMDb 7.1 · 2,716 votes
- Little England 2014 · IMDb 7.8 · 8,253 votes
- The Last Note 2017 · IMDb 7.6 · 3,956 votes