Tasos Psarras was born in Thessaloniki in 1948. In 1966 he graduated from the Veterinary School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki but then turned to cinema. He completed relevant studies at the Thessaloniki Film Theater School, the Stavrakos School of Thessaloniki and the Hatzikos School in Athens. In 1972, he was one of the co-founders of the Thessaloniki Film Club, which was closed by the dictatorship on Easter 1973.
An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, testimonies of his collaborators and relatives and analyses of his symbolic role in the post-war modern Greek reality. Thanasis Vengos, for more than fifty years, was one of the most important actors in Greece. His films and lines are written in history, raising more than three generations of Greeks.
Release Date2004-12-03
Charactersd Self
Release Date2009-01-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count20
Vote Count2
Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter becomes a whore, and the son has to work.
Release Date1986-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Release Date2019-01-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count16
Vote Count2
Michalis returns to the tobacco growers of his rural village after having spent some time in the city and persuades them to form a collective, rather than suffer the poverty-inducing prices they are paid for their crops by tobacco brokers. They agree not to sell to any of the brokers and start to form a farmers' group. When one of the farmers breaks the agreement and is found dead, Michalis is accused. However, rather than expose the farmers' plight and give publicity to the brokers' greed, the motive the government gives for the killing is thi asimanton aformin, for unimportant reasons.
Release Date1974-09-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
A burglar accidentally kills a wealthy businessman and assumes his identity. He finds life as a playboy very enjoyable, but the deceased man's sister (who lives far away from him) soon starts being suspicious.
Release Date1998-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
A tanner, swamped with debts, must abandon his trade and go work in the local factory.
Release Date1981-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
The days of May 1936 in Thessaloniki and the events that led to the bloody clashes between the tobacco workers and the army are described in this film in a clear way. The people are the protagonists, and the narrative does not insist on drama or exaggeration. Of particular importance is also the presentation of the way in which the country was led, through a specific plan, to the dictatorship of Metaxas, on August 4, 1936.
Release Date1976-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A film by Tasos Psarras.
Release Date1991-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The documentary "The Greek Maria Callas", directed by Tassos Psarras, broadcast by ERT1 on Saturday, September 23, 2017, at 13:20, focuses on the Greek period of Callas and the visits to Greece from 1957 until her death .
Release Date2007-09-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A 50 year old journalist, son of a civil war hero, who died fighting for the right forces is shattered, when he recognizes him in a documentary, fighting for the communists. He starts searching for the truth, despite his family's objections, who fear that they will lose privileges if the status of the dead changes after the search.
Release Date2004-11-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Release Date1988-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
