Christos Giannakopoulos
Christos Giannakopoulos (1909 – 12 February 1963) was a Greek playwright, screenwriter and journalist.
He was self-taught in theatre writing and his first appearance as a playwright was in 1929, while until 1939 he collaborated with many writers on comedies, revues and operettas. From 1939 he began to collaborate closely with Alekos Sakellarios on revues and comedies, songs and film scripts: The Germans are Coming Back, A Hero in Slippers, Miss 39, Thanasakis the Politician, A Pebble in the Lake, Alas for the Young and other works. He wrote the comedies The Great and the Little and A Nettle Among the Violets alone. He sketched the character of the Greek petty bourgeois with the contradictions, illusions and dead ends he faced. He stood out for the directness of his writing, his sensitivity, optimism and intimacy. He died in February 1963.
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Movies (38)
A Crazy, Crazy 40-Year-Old Woman
2015 · Original Story, Theatre Play
No cat, no harm done
2001 · Writer
O kerveros kai to doloma...
1987 · Theatre Play, Screenplay
The foreign is sweeter
1981 · Writer
The Man Who Returned from the Heat
1972 · Writer
Curtain Lecture
1971 · Theatre Play
A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman
1970 · Theatre Play
The Strongman Who Became a Lamb
1968 · Writer
Greek Pride
1968 · Theatre Play
Welcome Dollar
1967 · Writer
The Rope Maker
1967 · Writer
My Sister Deserves a Beating
1966 · Theatre Play
A Matter of Earnestness
1965 · Theatre Play
Yie mou... Yie mou...
1965 · Writer
I'll Make You Queen
1964 · Writer
Paras and Foukaras
1964 · Writer
Jack of All Trades, Master of None
1963 · Theatre Play
World Gone Mad
1963 · Theatre Play
Mr. Wing Commander
1963 · Writer
When the Cat is Missing!
1962 · Lyricist, Writer
Woe to the Young
1961 · Writer
Lost dreams
1961 · Writer
The yellow gloves
1960 · Theatre Play, Writer
The Underdog
1960 · Writer
Makrykostas and Kontogiorgis
1960 · Writer
The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
1959 · Writer
A Hero in His Slippers
1958 · Writer, Theatre Play
Fanouris and His Kin
1957 · Writer
Trouble for Fathers
1957 · Writer
At Night the Entanglements
1957 · Writer
No Harm's Done
1955 · Writer
A Young Miss... Aged 39
1954 · Writer, Theatre Play
Thanasakis, the Politician
1954 · Writer
Santa Chikita
1953 · Writer
A Ripple in the Pond
1952 · Writer
Those Not Allowed to Love
1951 · Screenplay, Writer
The Germans Strike Again
1948 · Writer, Theatre Play
Better the Devil You Know
1946 · Writer
