The news was made known by Spyros Bibilas
The director, actor and writer died at the age of 87 Dimitris Kollatos. The news of his death was made by Spyros Bibilas with a post on Instagram, concluding: “Good journey of philosopher, director, writer, dream traveler … We will remember you, always Dimitris Kick”.
“Goodbye, my dear Dimitris .. as a kid I loved you and loved me, since you were my mother’s brother’s classmate! How many discussions did we have together! How many shooting in your movies! How many summers in Aegina, at the festival of Greek cinema you organized on your peanuting estate. Dimitris, I will never forget your care for Alkis! Alexander and all the children will continue your work and be close to them. In the last summer in Aegina you said “next year again” !!! But you traveled … Good journey, philosopher, director, writer, dream traveler … We will always remember you, Dimitris stick! “
Who was Dimitris Kollatos
D. Kollatos was born on June 9, 1937 in Athens. He wrote his first poetic collection in 1956, while he was a student in high school. In 1959-1960 he founded the “Experimental Pocket Theater” by uploading to a basement on Stournari Street works such as Ionesco’s “Bald singer” and Samuel Beckett’s “End of Game”. He directed Euripides’ “Ifigenia in Taurus” with Iphigenia Mariette Rialde and in October 1961 posted the show in Paris at Centre Culturel starring Arlette Baumann, Roger Jandly, Nicolas Ruffieux, M.-F. Bonte, F. Guiman. The French magazine “L’Express” described it as “a spring in the French theater”. Arlett Boman became his wife, from whom he had two sons, Alexander and Alkis, who starred in his films.
In 1962 he filmed his first short film “Athens XII”, awarded the Thessaloniki Film Festival. This was followed by the mid -length film “Olives” in 1964, which was awarded. In 1966 the feature film of “Alexander’s Death” although at the Thessaloniki Film Festival was ignored by the official awards, received three critics (Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Music) and not only met but also artistic but also artistic.
During the dictatorship in Greece he settled permanently in France, where he uploaded 20 theatrical productions, creating the Théatre de l’Art in Paris. There he presented, among other things, his play “Socrates’ Woman”, a monologue starring Arlett Boman’s wife who uploaded to the Art Theater. The premiere took place on December 22, 1973. It was selected as the best performance of the year, presented at the Theater of Nations in Brussels and repeated in January 1975 and September 1976. He also filmed the film “Symposium” (1972) on Eros and Eros and homosexuality. In 1974 he uploaded his play “Good evening Mr. Chekhov” with co -stars Arlett Boman and Fanny Ardan.
After his return to Greece in 1975, he began to upload a series of performances that were thought to be aimed at challenge (such as “Sodom and Gomorra”) or political and social activism rather than art, such as “Shipowners”, “Saint Prevezis” which also became a film (1982), “The Doctors”. However, he won the sympathies with his militant stance on the rights of autistic children, rushed by his personal experience with his son Alkis and the creation of a special space in Aegina for autistic children.
In the autobiographical film “Life with ‘Alkis’ (1988) the role of the autistic young man was played by his other son, Alexandros Kollatos, who was awarded a special mention for his interpretation in the role of his autistic brother. Alexander has since become an actor and director. Another movie, “I Cut You Cut You” (1993), talks not only about the experience of a parent with an autistic child but also about the suicide of Arlett Boman’s wife. In his film “Alexander and Aisse” (1998), again starring Alexander’s son, he approaches the subject of Muslim minority through an erotic story, while with the “will of priest Jean Meslier” (2009) he returns to the subject of religion and the role of the Church.
In 1977 he returned the mid -length “The France of Giskar”, a critical look in France of the 1970s. On television he had his own show entitled “Kollatos without censorship” for a year. In 1989 and again in 2013 he nominated as a MEP. In 2011 he created the Porta-Corta Citizens’ Union, a new form of political intervention organizing various “hopping” protests against political leadership, the intervention of foreign powers in the country and more. In 2014 he filmed the film “Dionysus”, on Greece of the crisis that participated in the Thessaloniki Festival.
In 1993, at the 34th Thessaloniki Film Festival, a special prize was awarded to Kollatos on the subject of the film “Red Rose I Cut”.
