Dimitris Kollatos

Dimitris Kollatos (Athens, 9 June 1937 – 30 January 2025) was a Greek film and theatre director, actor and writer. In 1959-1960 he founded the "Experimental Pocket Theatre" and staged, in that and the following two theatrical seasons, in a basement on Stournari Street, Ionesco's "The Bald Singer", Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" and Harold Pinter's "Room", William Ing's "A Rainy Afternoon", René de Obaldia's "The Blessed One". He directed Euripides' "Iphigenia in Taurus" in the role of Iphigenia with Marietta Rialdi. On October 7, 1961 in Paris he staged Euripides' "Iphigenia in Taurus", at the Centre Culturel. The leading actors were: Arlette Baumann, Roger Jandly, Nicolas Ruffieux, M.-F. Bonte, F. Guiman. The French magazine "L'Express" described the performance as "a spring in French theater". Arlette Boman became his wife, with whom he had two sons, Alexandros and Alkis, and who starred in his films. With another relationship, he had a third son, Marios. In 1962, he made his first short film, "Athens Xi Psi Xi", which was awarded at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. This was followed by his medium-length film, "Elies" in 1964, which was also awarded. In 1966, his feature film, "The Death of Alexander", was ignored by the official awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, but it won three Critics' Awards (best film, best screenplay, best music) and was not only an artistic but also a box-office success, since when it finally managed to be shown in Athenian cinemas, it sold 29,90…