George Tzavellas, also rendered Giorgos Tzavellas, Yiorgos Tzavellas, or Yorgos Javellas (Greek: Γιώργος Τζαβέλλας, 1916, Athens – October 18, 1976),[1] was a Greek film director, screenwriter, and playwright. His filmmaking was particularly influential, with critic Georges Sadoul considering him "one of the three major postwar Greek directors" (along with Michael Cacoyannis and Nikos Koundouros).[2]
Tzavellas wrote at least 26 plays, in addition to writing the scripts for all of his films.[2] Among his notable films are Marinos Kontaras (1948), the drama O methystakas (1950), and Antigone (1961), a cinematic adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy.[2] His adaptation of Antigone reimagined it in the language of realist cinema, omitting stylized elements of Greek stageplay such as the chorus, and attempting to convey the same information via setting and dialogue.[3] In 1964 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.[4] His masterpiece, however, is the 1955 film The Counterfeit Coin (I kálpiki líra), a film in four parts, linking the stories of several people through their transactions of a single counterfeit gold coin.
^"Yorgos Javellas". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
^ abcGeorges Sadoul; trans. Peter Morris (1972). "Tzavellas, Georges". Dictionary of Film Makers. pp. 256–257. ISBN 0-520-02151-7.
^Kenneth MacKinnon (1986). Greek Tragedy Into Film. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. pp. 72–74. ISBN 0-8386-3301-3.
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of a purely sports radio broadcast was the idea of the journalist GeorgeTzavellas, who, in collaboration with sports reporters Kostas Mochi and Hercules...
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cinematic transcriptions of ancient tragedy, playing the title roles in GeorgeTzavellas's Antigone (1961) and Michael Cacoyannis's Electra (1962), with her...
sarcastically called into question Tzavellas' Greekness. After defeating him next month, in October 1828, Tzavellas had Ahmet's and his men's foreheads...
is the diary of Fotos Tzavellas, composed during his captivity by Ali Pasha (1792–1793). This diary is written by F. Tzavellas himself in simple Greek...
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war, serving both in Central Greece and the Peloponnese under Kitsos Tzavellas and Georgios Karaiskakis, fighting with particular distinction in the...
Virvos, Thodoros Derveniotis, Babis Bakalis, George Zambetas and Panos Tzavellas. She collaborated with well-known artists such as: Roza Eskenazi, Stratos...
his commander Tzavellas when his thoughts were that there is no better future for his revolution". The corpses of Velouchiotis and Tzavellas were subsequently...
divided because many unranked chieftains and warlords (most notably the Tzavellas clan) were infuriated with Botsaris's promotion to generalship. In order...
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