Sokrates Kapsaskis Death
Sokrates passed away on August 28, 2007 at the age of 79 in Greece. Sokrates's cause of death was complications following triple-bypass heart surgery.
When did Sokrates Kapsaskis die?
August 28, 2007How did Sokrates Kapsaskis die? What was the cause of death?
Complications following triple-bypass heart surgeryHow old was Sokrates Kapsaskis when died?
79Where did Sokrates Kapsaskis die? What was the location of death?
Greece
Sokrates Kapsaskis Birthday and Date of Death
Sokrates Kapsaskis was born on February 19, 1928 and died on August 28, 2007. Sokrates was 79 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: February 19, 1928
Date of Death: August 28, 2007
Age at Death: 79
Sokrates Kapsaskis - Biography
Sokrates Kapsaskis was a Greek poet, film director, historian and translator. He was born on the island of Zante. In 1938 he left Zante to live at his grandfather's house on the Peloponnesus, where he met the poets Takis Sinopoulos, Giorgos Pavlopoulos and 'Gavriel Pentzikis'. Together they published poems, essays and various translations. He later joined the Resistance during the Civil War. He moved to Athens after the war, where he published some of his poems in the art magazine "O Aionas Mas". In 1953 he published his first books of poetry, "Aesthesis" (Feelings) and in 1955 "Efimerida" (Newspaper). In 1954 he married Viktoria Kapsaski and together they left for Paris, where he studied film directing at the IDHEC. He returned to Athens in 1956, where he made 13 films until 1966. During the shooting of his last film, O Zestos minas Augoustos (1966), he met American director Doris Wishman, who acquired the distribution rights for the film. Without his consent, Wishman changed the story, added nude scenes and sexier dialog, and for more than 40 years it would circulate at drive-ins and midnight screenings with the tagline, "He blew her cool . . . she blew his . . . and her husband blew all in". After the late 1960s military coup in Greece, he stopped making films and opened an ArtCinema called "Studio".His films include "The Hot Month of August" and One Street Organ, One Life (1958). He won the Aristeion Prize in 1992 for his Greek translation of James Joyce's "Ulysses".He died on 28 August 2007 due to complications following triple-bypass heart surgery.Born in Zakynthos in 1928. He studied Cinema at the I.D.H.E.C. in Paris (1954-56) and worked as a producer and director in Greek Cinema for the following ten years.Filmography:Zestos minas Avgoustos, O (1966) ... aka The Hot Month of August (USA: dubbed version) Peraste tin proti tou minos(1965) Pikri zoi (1965) Dipsa gia zoi (1964) Exotikes vitamines (1964) ... aka Erotikes vitamines (Greece: uncensored intended title) Teleftaios peirasmos, O (1964) Kazanovas (1963) Tavromahos prohorei, O (1963) ... aka The Torreador Advances (International: English title) Astronaftes (1962) ... aka Astronaftes gia desimo (Greece) Gabroi tis Eftyhias, Oi (1962) Agapi kai thiela (1961) Erotikes istories (1959) Liza toskase, I (1959) ... aka Lisa, Tosca of Athens (USA) ... aka Lisa, the Greek Tosca (UK) Mia laterna, mia zoi (1958) He was the founder of the Art Cinema "Studio" in Athens that he ran for 20 years. Between 1953 and 1991 he published four books of poetry, three novels and several studies on Greek literature. For his translation of James Joyce`s "Ulysses" in 1992 he was awarded the Aristeion Prize for exceptional translations of contemporary literature.
