El Greco (2007 film)

El Greco
Directed byYannis Smaragdis
Written byScreenplay:
Jackie Pavlenko
Yannis Smaragdis
Book:
Dimitris Siatopoulos
Produced byEleni Smaragdi
Raimon Masllorens
Dénes Szekeres
Georgios Fragkos
StarringNick Ashdon
Juan Diego Botto
Laia Marull
Lakis Lazopoulos
Dimitra Matsouka
Sotiris Moustakas
Dina Konsta
Giorgos Christodoulou
Dimitris Kallivokas
Giorgos Charalampidis
Thodoris Zoumboulidis
Lida Protopsalti
Constantinos Isaias
Katerina Helmi
Fermi Reixach
Roger Coma
CinematographyAris Stavrou
Edited byGiannis Tsitsopoulos
Music byVangelis
Distributed byAudiovisual
Release dates
  • 18 October 2007 (2007-10-18)
  • 22 May 2009 (2009-05-22) (U.S.)
Running time
119 minutes
CountriesGreece
Spain
LanguagesEnglish, Greek, Spanish
Box office$8,246,050 Greece[1]
$674,095 Spain[2]
$3,493 Bulgaria[3]

El Greco is a Greek biographical film about the life of the Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known worldwide as El Greco. Based on the fictionalised biographical novel, El Greco: o Zografos tou Theou (El Greco: the Painter of God), by Dimitris Siatopoulos, it was released in 2007, directed by Yannis Smaragdis and written by Jackie Pavlenko. The main cast features prominent contemporary Greek actors like Lakis Lazopoulos, Dimitra Matsouka and Dina Konsta, and includes popular actors of the Greek cinema of the 1960s such as Sotiris Moustakas and Katerina Helmi, who, along with Juan Diego Botto, Laia Marull and others, surround the leading actor, Nick Ashdon, who portrays El Greco.