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Grigoris Bithikotsis (Greek Γρηγόρης Μπιθικώτσης, December 11, 1922 – April 7, 2005) was a Greek folk singer/songwriter with a career spanning five decades. He is considered one of the most important figures in Greek popular music.
Bithikotsis was born in Peristeri, Athens, in 1922 to a poor family. He became interested in music at an early age, and acquired a bouzouki as soon as he was able. At first, he had to hide the instrument at a friend's house and practice in secret, as his father disapproved of the new rembetiko style that had captured his son's interest.
He met composer Mikis Theodorakis in 1959 and the two collaborated producing folk songs. Bithikotsis composed over 80 songs, including: Stu Belami to ouzeri and Tou Votanikou o magas. He possessed a rich singing voice with which he performed his own compositions and those of Theodorakis, who frequently chose his friend Grigoris to perform his masterpieces. The two contributed greatly to the then-emerging laika style of Greek music. A leftist, he was exiled to the island of Makronisos in the 1950s during the reign of King Paul.
Throughout his life, Bithikotsis performed frequent concerts at numerous venues, including one in Athens upon the occasion of his eightieth birthday. He died in Athens, in 2005, following three months of hospitalization. His funeral was attended by thousands, including representatives of all the Greek political parties.
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15 October 1961
A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there and try in every way to escape from poverty and destitution.
02 December 1963
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
08 March 1965
Katerina, a poor girl, finds a job as a secretary and falls in love with her boss on a trip to Rome.
01 January 1965
The tragic story of a woman who divorces her rich husband after the intrigues of her mother-in-law.
05 September 1961
Accused of stabbing his nightclub singer mistress to death, unscrupulous dockhand Christos is on the run.
17 April 1961
A sharp altercation will pave the way for a brilliant career when a shameless liar meets his future employer: a resourceful parliamentarian.
01 January 1967
A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose home his mother worked older as a shipwreck.
01 January 1966
Nikos Liosis returns to his homeland, with the wounds of the Korean War still fresh in his mind and body.
01 January 1966
The honest laborer falls into disfavour and is undermined by his factory's son because they both love the daughter of the factory owner without suspecting the secret that unites them.
01 January 1965
The son of a rich industrialist is in love with a poor girl, but his father wants to marry him to the daughter of a childhood friend and partner.
30 September 2023
The late Panos Geramanis talks to the forgotten heroes of the Greek Folk Song and retrieves moments from their lives, trying to record and revive images and values of an era, forever lost.
01 February 1964
After years abroad, a naval officer reunites with his mother, who has planned an arranged marriage to a beautiful and affluent heiress.
01 January 1964
A self-assured and extremely rich business entrepreneur who is convinced that money is everything has a chance encounter with a feisty young lawyer who couldn't care less about his financial status.
01 January 1963
A poor young man leaves the city that lives and works to go to Athens. On the way he will meet one mad, who falls in love with him , and a young women falling in love.
01 January 1961
Exarhos is persuaded by his two lazy brothers to sell their shipyard, and they buy a factory in which nothing works normally.
21 March 1960
A young woman asks from a ship magnate to help her immigrate to Australia but he falls in love with her.
01 January 1955
An impecunious young woman is lured into prostitution, trying to survive and provide for her ailing, bedridden mother.
01 January 1965
Two persons try to become rich using an... armchair.
21 October 1962
At the top of his class, a diligent architecture student, and son of a poor bouzouki player dreams of a life different from the one his father has already planned for him.
01 January 1965
Two bosom buddies who've won the lottery have a chance encounter with two beautiful but equally poor women who pose as rich.
01 January 1970
Zizi is a poor young woman who wants to get married to a wealthy man. When she finds out that her former lover has inherited a fortune from his uncle in Australia she decides to pay him a visit.
01 January 1964
The son of a shipowner is in love with a poor seamstress. When his father reacts to their love, he abandons his wealth and becomes a composer of a folk song, in order to live together.
31 October 1962
Two friends (Thanasis Vengos and Vasilis Diamantopoulos) meet after many years and recollect the tragi-comic events they went through during the German occupation.
30 January 1964
Mr. Anastasis, an elderly bouzoukis who suffers from his heart, forbids Liza's daughter to become a singer.
01 January 1962
Wandering Athens by night. A grand parade with actors, singers, composers, orchestras, attractions and generally performing artists of the night, in a series of great figures who made significant humorist.
01 January 1964
The son of a ruthless moneylender loves a girl whose mother was his father's first love. When he refuses to accept her as his daughter, his son leaves home and takes a job in a car repair shop.
01 January 1969
An unexpected secret dating back to WWII unites a beautiful woman with two men who vie for her affection.
