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Screenwriter, manager and shaper Manousos Manousakis, an influential unit successful Greek amusement who is credited with shaping the TV play genre and challenging taboos astir “forbidden love,” died connected Wednesday astatine the property of 74.
Born successful Athens successful 1950, Manousakis studied directing astatine the London Film School and started retired successful the Greek cinema manufacture successful 1970, going connected to work connected a string of successful projects, including the astir caller “Ouzeri Tsitsanis” oregon “Cloudy Sunday,” a 2015 World War II play based connected the publication by Giorgos Skabardonis.
Manousakis’ astir celebrated work, however, was successful television, which helium elevated to caller heights aft the privatization of broadcasting successful the aboriginal 1990s with deed bid similar “Psithiroi Kardias” (Whispers of the Heart), “Angigma Psychis” (Touch of the Soul) and “Tmima Ithon” (Vice Squad), among galore others, which touched connected subjects that were considered delicate oregon taboo by the comparatively blimpish standards of Greek society.
Speaking to state broadcaster ERT connected the juncture of its caller merchandise of his latest show, “To Dixti” (The Net), Manousakis indicated that “Whispers of the Soul,” a play astir a emotion matter betwixt a Roma woman and a middle-class architect, was 1 of his proudest achievements.
“I consciousness similar I helped and I was told arsenic overmuch [by Roma people]. They conveyed the information that their presumption changed [thanks to the show],” helium said.
Manousakis died successful intensive attraction astatine a backstage infirmary successful Athens. Reports indicated that helium had been admitted with a superior respiratory corruption a fewer days earlier.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
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