{"id":3348,"date":"2026-04-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:59:00","slug":"yannis-smaragdis-papathanasiou-deserves-to-be-made-into-a-film-a-man-hunted-by-the-left-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3348","title":{"rendered":"Yannis Smaragdis: “Papathanasiou deserves to be made into a film, a man hunted by the Left” (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Greek who deserves to be made into a film is Vangelis Papathanasiou<\/b>. He is a man who was hunted by the left<\/b> and is being hunted because he was never in their direction. Papathanasiou is the one who understood early on what the NASA people understood and made the Myth<\/b>. He made a play that was prevented from being made in Greece. He insisted that it be made, NASA and Sony suggested it be made in Turkey,” Yannis Smaragdis revealed Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

“Capodistrias<\/b> is in the 840,000 spectacles along with Cyprus<\/b>. The 150,000<\/b> is from the negative reviews,” noted Giannis Smaragdis<\/b><\/p>\n

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For his next projects regarding film <\/b>about Kolokotronis<\/b> that he is preparing, Vangelis Papathanasiou<\/b> and Kapodistrias<\/b> tickets, Yannis Smaragdis spoke on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

As he told Action 24, “I know who the actor who will play Kolokotronis is, he doesn’t know.<\/b>If he doesn’t accept, we will find another solution,” adding that this actor “has similarities<\/b>” with the Old Man of Moria.<\/p>\n

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According to Yannis Smaragdis, “the Greek who deserves to be a movie is Vangelis Papathanasiou<\/b>. He is a man who was hunted by the left<\/b> and is being hunted because he was never in their direction. Papathanasiou is the one who understood early on what the NASA people understood and made the Myth<\/b>. He made a play that was prevented from being made in Greece. He insisted that it be made, NASA and Sony suggested that it be made in Turkey.”<\/p>\n

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As for the negative reviews of his works, the director said “there are very few people who don’t dig me but are noisy. You can’t get away from them. The distribution company that put out Kapodistrias had estimated a base of 500,000 and it was going to go to 650-700,000 tickets Including Cyprus it’s at 840,000 tickets. 150,000 is from the negative reviews.”<\/p>\n

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“I admit that the film industry is waiting for my new film. I am the only living Greek director who has two of my films in the top 10 of the top films. El Greco and Kapodistrias. First is Boulmetis’ Politeiki Kouzina, then a comedy by Reppa-Papathanasios, a comedy by Perrakis and Exist for Kazantzides,” Yannis Smaragdis pointed out at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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