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Maria Plyta (27 November 1915 – 4 March 2006) was a Greek screenwriter and film director. She was known for her work with the melodramatic and her capacity to convey a distinctly feminine sense of culture, civilization and identity.
Maria Plyta (November 26, 1915 - March 4, 2006) was a Greek film director, novelist, playwright, songwriter, and journalist. She was the first female director in Greece and is known for T' arravoniasmata (1950), The Godson (1952), Jeep Kiosk and Love (1957), The Shoe-Shine Boy (1962), and The Poor Merchant (1967), unforgettable films that ...
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Mar 4, 2006 · Maria Plyta (26 November 1915 - 4 March 2006) was a Greek film director, prose writer, playwright and journalist. She was the first female director in Greece and is known for the films The Engagements (1950), The Baptist (1952) and The Lustrakos (1962), which achieved great commercial success.
Aug 23, 2016 · Maria Plyta’s films are almost completely forgotten today despite the continuing popularity they enjoy when screened on television. There is something parochial and paradoxical in them that ignites more bewilderment and confusion than acceptance or enthusiasm.
Maria Plyta (November 26, 1915 - March 4, 2006) was a Greek film director, novelist, playwright, songwriter, and journalist. She was the first female director in Greece and is known for T' arravoniasmata (1950), The Godson (1952), Jeep Kiosk and Love (1957), The Shoe-Shine Boy (1962), and The Poor Merchant (1967), unforgettable films that ...
Abstract Maria Plyta’s films are almost completely forgotten today despite the continuing popularity they enjoy when screened on television. There is something parochial and paradoxical in them that ignites more bewilderment and confusion than acceptance or enthusiasm.
Maria Plyta, born on November 26, 1915, in Thessaloniki, was a Greek film director, novelist, playwright and journalist. After the German Occupation, she published her two novels in 1944 and 1946. In 1947 she started working in film as an art director for “Marinos Kontaras”, a film directed by George Tzavellas.
