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Kostas Vrettakos, son of Nikiforos Vrettakos, is "extinct" at the age of 80 – he was hospitalized at Sotiria hospital for health problems
At the age of 80, director and writer Kostas Vrettakos left life after health problems that tormented him for a while, while he was finally hospitalized at Sotiria Hospital.
Son of the poet and academician Nikiforos Vrettakos, Kostas Vrettakos was born in Athens in 1938. Very soon fascinated by cinema, he did not devote himself exclusively to it.
He studied filmmaking in Greece and Italy and, along with his film debut, continued to work as a publisher, promotional film producer and occasionally as a journalist. During the dictatorship, he worked as a translator of folk novels and as an encyclopedia photographer.
The first literary collaborations with "Art Review" followed two collections of poetry in 1971 and 1977 under the title "Anatomica". Since 1977, in parallel with his photographic activity, he works again with cinematography. In 1987, he directed a series of films starring "The Matrix of Destruction" (1980) and "Children of Chelidon" (1987). At the same time, her long photographic collaboration with Emmanuela de Nora led to the founding of the publishing house "Three Leaves".
Since 1990, he has again left publications, photography and cinematography and was involved in the political management of Greek cinematography, first as special director of the Ministry of Culture (1989), then as president of the Hellenic Film Center Greece at Eurimages, Council of Europe (1991-2006).
His book "Exercises of Curiosity" (2016 edition of Potamos) was awarded in 2016 by the Academy Award of the Academy of Sciences.
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