Sadness has caused the artistic world the news of his death, which was hospitalized in a private healing room due to respiratory infection. Manousos Manousakis left life yesterday, Wednesday (20.11. 24) at age 74. His loss leaves an unfulfilled gap, as the director was one of the most important creators of Greek television and cinema, with works that marked generations. Artists who had the honour to work with him expressed their grief and said goodbye through touching posts on social media. “Thank you for everything… I owe you a lot! Direct with your beautiful nearby angels up there and build their careers, as you did to several of us down here,” wrote Giannis Tsimitelis. See this post on Instagram. “Have a nice trip! Thank you,” wrote Andreas Georgiou. Actor Solon Chounis said: “Great… I feel so lucky to meet you and work together… Have a good trip”. See this post on Instagram. Marina Lambropoulou wanted to say a big “thank you” to the great director. See this post on Instagram. Director Manousos Manousakis began working initially in cinema in the early 1970s. His name has been combined with the directing and production of Greek television series on private television since early 1990. The dramatic series which he directed are written on forbidden love, while some of them (Whispers of heart, Touch of soul, Don’t tell me goodbye, Love came from far away) is considered one of the most successful in the history of Greek television. In the cinema he has directed the films You received appointments in 1996, Red dragon in 1998 and Uzeri Tsitsanis in 2015. But in recent years, he had made great success in the “Red River” series while at this time he is shown in ERT, the “The Net” series, which signed the directing. For this series he had spoken a month ago, in a television interview: He was born in Athens and had studied directing at the London Film School. Manousos Manousakis is considered the director of great television hits as his series on private television made incredible ratings. The television series that wrote history His first steps as director of television series Manousos Manousakis made them in ERT with Kallikantzarovolies (1985-1986), Micrographys (1986-1987) and Their Best Years (1989). Then followed private television and ANT1 with the series Department of Ethics (1992-1995), Bull with Sagittarius (1994-1995) and Town Streets (1995-1996) to know great success. In 1997 he directed for Mega the series “heart whispers” that experienced incredible television success with the illegal love between Anna Maria Papacharalambous and Apostolos Glechos. Successes did not end there and in 1998 he directed the series of ANT1 “soul touch” starring Stavros Zalma and Theophania Papathomas, in another banned television love. Following are the series for ANT1, “Love Border”, “love thief” while in 2001 he was successful this time with the romantic comedy “for a woman and a car” starring Panos Michalopoulos, Lina Sakka, George Hraniotis, Tasso Cavadia and Athinodoros Prousalis. In 2002 he returned again to the series with illegal love with “love came from far away” starring Paschalis Tsarouha, Lina Sakka and Kostas Sommer. The drama series “Don’t say goodbye” follows in 2004 starring Thalia Matika, Memo Begni, Giannis Tsimitselis and other young players then. The series was particularly successful and many times ratings exceeded 45%, while in the last episode, on June 24, 2005, it reached impressive 62.4%. The successes do not stop there as the series “secret paths”, “for Anna” and “faros” also know great ratings. In 2019 he directed the Open series “the red river” based on Harry Tsirkinidis’s novel of the same name and relates to real events surrounding the genocide of Pontian Hellenism. It is one of the most expensive productions in the history of Greek television with the cost of each episode being estimated at 125,000 euros and at total cost at 4,000,000 euros. In 2021 he returned to ERT and directed the historical series “bardian in the sporca”, “who was the murderer of my brother” and “critical moments”. His last television job is in ERT the “net” which is shown at this time and consists of six independent police stories, each 80 minutes long “I want to die on stage” “It is not reasonable for each of us to be on the action when he says goodbye to this world,” Manousos Manousakis, who left his last breath on Wednesday (20.11.2024) after serious health problems he was facing, said in mid-October. A month ago, the famous director had interviewed the show “Good morning again?” on ERT1. Then, among other things, he had talked about the age that “not” have those who fall in love with their profession, about directing and about the ideal way he would want to leave this life. “If I weren’t here I would be home reading scripts. Even today when it’s Sunday. I have a chance this weekend to do jobs that I don’t have time to do in the office,” the well-known director initially said, showing his passion for his work. “Don’t you ever stop?”, asked Zoe Kronakis with him answering: “I hope not”. “I have read it where you have said it. For you the ideal “good-bye” would be on stage, eh?”, asked Tassos Jordanidis. “Is it not reasonable for each of us to be on the action when he says goodbye to this world from being withdrawn with his drool and snots? No one’s age. Neither the artist nor the souvlakis can separate it. And the souvlakis will die on the chicna if he is in love with it, he does not differentiate with us who are artists,” Manousos Manousakis said in his last revealing interview.
Manousos Manousakis: The touching “good-bye” of artists and TV hits for forbidden love
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