Born in Athens in 1940, Pantelis Voulgaris is a leading Greek director, who made his debut with The Matchmaking of Anna (1972), which won first prize at the Thessaloniki festival, under the colonels' junta. Stone Years (1985) deals with political prisoners in the years after the civil war. The Striker with Number 9 (1989) and Quiet Days in August (1991) were in competition at Berlin. Brides (2004), a story of Greek women who emigrate to the United States as picture brides in 1922, produced by Martin Scorsese, was Greece's most expensive film at the time. He also made Little England (2013).
Filmography
- Happy Day (1976)
- Stone Years (1985)
- Quiet Days in August (1991)
- Brides (2004)