Manthoulis, Robert

(Roviros Manthoulis / 1929, Komotini, Greece-)

   He made his secondary studies in Athens. At age fourteen, he joined the Greek Resistance during the occupation of France. After World War II, he studied political science in Athens and stage and film directing in the USA as a grant holder of Syracuse University, New York (1949-1953), and in England as grant holder of the British Council. Having re­turned to Greece, he worked for radio (mostly for the Wednesday Theatre, 1956-1959) and stage (My Heart's in the Highlands, William Saroyan, 1958). In 1958, he organized the documentary department in the Greek Ministry of Information. The same year, he shot his first movie, which also was the first Greek documentary. He taught cinema at the Superior School of Cinema from 1956 to 1966 and collaborated as a film critic on the review Cinema and Theatre. In 1960, he founded a movement",the Group of Five", which helped to release shorts in Greece (1960-1966). He edited I Zoi sti Mytillini (Leon Loisios, Greece). On April 21, 1967, he pre­sented his movie Prosopo me prosopo at the Festival du Jeune Cinéma in Hyères and had to stay in France after having denounced the Greek colonels' coup d'état, which happened the very same day. He worked mostly for French TV and published several books, including a novel, Lilly's Story (1982). Other credit (as actor): 1987 Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (episode "Une Paix royale", Gérard Gozlan).

 Filmography

1958 ◘ Lefkada, to nisi ton poiiton (documentary; short; Greece; also screenwriter, editor)

1960 ◘ Oikogeneia Papadopoulou / Voitheia . . . me pantrevoune (as Roviros Manthoulis; also producer; Greece)

        ◘ I Kyria dimarhos (as Roviros Manthoulis; Greece)

        ◘ Akropolis ton Athinon (16-mm documentary; short; also producer; Greece)

1963 ◘ Psila ta heria Hitler (as Roviros Manthoulis; Greece)

        ◘ I pio megali dynami (documentary; Greece)

        ◘ Des Hommes et des Dieux / US TV: Of Men and Gods (documentary; short; Greece)

        ◘ Prasino hrysafi (documentary; short; co-director with Fotis Mesthenaios, Iraklis Papadakis; Greece)

        ◘ Fragma 11 (documentary; short; co-director with Fotis Mesthenaios, Iraklis Papadakis; Greece)

        ◘ Prosopo me prosopo (as Roviros Manthoulis; also co-screenwriter, producer; Greece)

        ◘ Kalyteri organosi, ligoteros kopos, perissotero ei-sodima (documentary; short; co-director with Iraklis Papadakis; Greece)

        ◘ Gia ena kalytero noikokyrio (documentary; short; co-director with Iraklis Papadakis; Greece)

1973 ◘ Le Blues entre les Dents (documentary; also co-screenwriter, producer)

2002 ◘ Lilly's Story / Lilijina zgodba / I istoria tis Lilly (also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Greece / Slovenia)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ En remontant le Mississippi / US TV: Going Up the Missisippi River (documentary; also screenwriter, producer; France / West Germany)

        ◘ Un Pays, une Musique (7 X 52' documentary)

        ◘ La Grèce: Le Cri du Silence (documentary; medium-length)

1976 ◘ Les Gauchos de Guemes (documentary; medium-length)

        ◘ Le Tango au Lever du Jour (documentary; medium-length)

        ◘ La France des Années 30 / US and Canadian TV: France in the Thirties (documentary)

        ◘ La Grèce: Les Rescapés de l'Histoire (documentary; medium-length)

        ◘ The Out-back (documentary; medium-length)

        ◘ Rue des Archives (documentary; medium-length; episode "La Vie est un Spectacle")

        ◘ Le Brésil, Terre en Transe (documentary; medium-length)

1980 ◘ Les Bruits du Monde (3 X 52' documentary; episodes "Cris de Solitude", "Rêves d'Amérique", "Le Retour aux Sources")

1985 ◘ Akyvernites politeies / Cités à la Dérive (14 X 45', also co-screenwriter Greece / Israel / France)

1990 ◘ Les Gitans (2 X 55' documentary)

        ◘ La Guerre civile grecque (documentary)

        ◘ Diktatoria ton Sintagmatarhon (documentary; also co-screenwriter, producer; Greece)

        ◘ Vies parallèles de la Guerre civile (6 X 52' documentary; Greece)

2001 ◘ Jaffa la mienne (documentary; medium-length)