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Nikos Foskolos (Greek: Νίκος Φώσκολος; 26 November 1927 – 30 October 2013) was a Greek screenwriter and director. He is one of the most commercially successful screenwriters of Greek cinema. He has been called the "Goldfinger of commercial shows". He has been described as "the maître of exaggeration" and "the king of TV shows". His film Ipolochagos Natassa kept the most commercially successful film record for almost three decades from 1970 to 1999.
Foskolos was born in Athens on 26 November 1927. He studied Political Science at the University of Athens but did not graduate. From the age of 17, he started writing successful radio plays with both a historical and modern background. His radio series Police Stories were the most popular radio series for three years. In the 1960s, he worked as a theatre critic and also wrote plays for the theatre and radio. He wrote screenplays for over 70 Greek films, mostly working for Finos Film. He introduced Spaghetti Westerns to Greek cinema.
His TV daily serial Lampsi was a huge success and ran for 14 seasons getting into the Guinness World Records in 1995. He gained another entry into the Guinness World Records for writing two daily TV series, Lampsi and Kalimera Zoi, for ten years. Lampsi was shown for 13 years from 1991 to 2005 with a total of 3457 episodes produced.
In the 1970s, his TV serial Agnostos Polemos (Unknown War) broke the record of TV ratings with 92% of Greek households tuning in to the show. Foskolos has been described as an "important screenwriter", a "talented director", a "wonderful human being" and "the father of TV-serials and films". Ta Nea refers to him as "hyperproductive". The same paper also calls him polygrafotatos translating as "a prolific writer".
Foskolos has received awards for The Asphalt Fever (Πυρετός στην άσφαλτο), and The Ruthless (Οι αδίστακτοι). His film Blood on the Land (Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο) was an Academy Awards Best Foreign Film nominee in 1965. He also received three awards and a state award for Concert for Machine Guns (Κοντσέρτο για πολυβόλα).
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24 November 1980
When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police.
07 November 1966
Intent on hurting herself, a beautiful but desperate daughter crashes her car on the day of her mother's wedding, unfolding a tragic tale of love, deception, and murder behind the closed doors of a wealthy family.
11 November 1981
Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rapid rise to power, a Greek music student arrives in 1936 Berlin and becomes a cabaret singer.
01 November 1964
A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.
19 August 1965
Alekos is a journalist who hunts down all those who live in the dregs of society, until he realizes that the real enemy is corruption, not its victims.
12 June 1965
After his release from prison, Stathis visits a private investigator, Othonas, whom he had assigned many years ago to find his mother, who has been missing from the time of the German Occupation.
01 January 1971
A woman murders her disabled husband and informs his brother (with whom she is having an affair), but she realizes she has misdialed and accidentally confessed her crime to a stranger.
03 February 1969
The story of three young girls that are sisters and remain with their mother a tavern in the port. The Persa, the more dynamic it has relations with the labeled Zachos.
01 January 1969
The adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was caused because of a childhood trauma.
05 January 1970
Angelos Kreouzis (Nikos Kourkoulos) survives a shipwreck and reveals to the committee in charge that the disaster was not an accident, but the consequence of the neglect of the ship by those responsible.
12 June 1961
Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered.
01 February 1968
A nightclub singer is forced to shoot her ex-boyfriend, who has escaped from prison and is blackmailing her for money.
26 May 1967
A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers the current owner of the villa that used to belong to him.
01 January 1961
After the murder of a brutal landowner, and six long years of incarceration, unarmed Tasos returns to his village, only to face the deceased's murderous brothers.
01 October 1966
A new, ambitious prosecutor undertakes a great trial for a murder trial but things get very confused.
01 January 1966
Nikos Liosis returns to his homeland, with the wounds of the Korean War still fresh in his mind and body.
18 February 1957
Tassos is a kiosk owner who is in love with Foula. He has a constant fear of vehicles speeding past his kiosk.
22 July 1967
Athens, shortly before the outbreak of World War II and an Army General Staff official, Niki (Jenny Carezis), is charged with channeling confidential documents to an Italian agent.
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.
13 April 1972
An incorruptible examiner finds the real culprit of a brutal homicide and tries to release his wrongfully accused ex-lover.
25 April 1972
Agents of German espionage approach the wife of the Greek officer Alexis Mourouzis, and with various tricks they convince her to cooperate with them.
12 December 1970
The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II.
12 August 1970
Athens, 1964. A police reporter, Nikos Avgeris, has the journalistic mission to cover a suspected car crash that killed a senior state official.
01 January 1971
A police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a morphine. As a member of the Drug Enforcement Department, he tries to identify the head of a drug dealer gang.
07 October 1963
A string of miscalculated choices and the longing of a fresh start will drag Magda of the slums deeper and deeper into a tireless personal nightmare.
11 January 1966
Two rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek homeland.
01 September 1967
From a tragic misunderstanding, the farmer Stathis Karatasos (Angelos Antonopoulos) is accused as the leader of a notorious gang.
13 January 1982
Sifis, a young boxer, is going to challenge the Greek champion Vlassis Hristou, despite the opposition of his cruel, conservative father.
13 October 1968
An unconscious driver fatally injures a woman and leaves her helpless to die. The victim was the wife of investigator Kostas Kyriazis, who, six years later, is called upon to solve a similar incident.
05 November 1966
A formerly heroic air force pilot, now an alcoholic loser with a failed marriage, is appointed by his older brother in the Ministry of Commerce to investigate a tragic plane crash that killed 28 people.
21 September 1967
A police constable tries to find blood during the night for his wife to be born. When he finally finds a blood donor, he will have to deal with a frenzy runaway, who holds hostage children in a school car.
12 January 1981
Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance.
09 July 1965
Mikes, the head of sanitation for a large city, is a ruthless blackmailer who pressures his wife Anna to divorce him so he can marry his mistress.
27 December 1972
Viky, a Greek from Africa, returns in shock to her homeland after the riots in the Congo, where she saw almost all of her family killed before her very eyes.
08 May 1969
A prisoner of war who escaped from Albania claims to be a major in the Greek army named Alexandros Vergis, causing great confusion within the army, since Vergis had escaped a year ago and now works for Greek counterintelligence.
30 January 1964
Mr. Anastasis, an elderly bouzoukis who suffers from his heart, forbids Liza's daughter to become a singer.
12 December 1973
During the German occupation, Mrs. Dimitra, widow of pilot Nikiforos Avgeris, lives with her daughter Natasha and her mother-in-law.
09 May 1970
A traumatised Korean War veteran is accused of arson and murder. Now, the deceased's criminal attorney daughter is determined to send him in prison, even though he claims he's innocent.
01 January 1987
What was this woman? The tragic victim of the SS or the female executioner of the Hitler's camps? What was it all about?
01 January 1965
Manos, owner of an entertainment center, is being watched by a mysterious woman. At the same time, the club's singer tries to get close to him, gaining the trust of his wife.
10 March 1969
In a maternity hospital observed unusually high number of abortions. The authorities are conducting investigations into their suppliers drug Prolouton Prosilon.
04 April 1987
This is a two-episode video series, each episode lasting approximately 80 minutes. This video series, together with the video series "Unknown War 2: The Man with Two Faces," is a remake of the older television series "The Unknown War (1971).
08 November 1964
Sergeant George Merkos is so absorbed in his duties that he never finds the time to meet the relatives of Anna, the girl he loves.
01 January 1959
A wealthy and ruthless landowner, Kitsos Mavromitsos, oppresses an entire region and uses his money to buy people and consciences.
01 January 1963
A poor couple struggles to survive, and the young man, wanting to make a lot of money easily, is lured by a suspicious man who moves in the world of nightlife.
01 January 1968
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well.
01 January 1988
She was a woman of the night, but she never became a prostitute. She was mired in filth up to her neck, but she continued to dream.
01 January 1963
A gunman, during the Turkish occupation of Greece, collides with the landlords, considering them traitors.
01 January 1983
Makis Bitsakos is a young man who loves football and his dream is to become a football star. His father tries to stop him.
