Manos Zacharias

Biography

Emmanuel "Manos" Zacharias (Greek: Εμμανουήλ «Μάνος» Ζαχαρίας; born 9 July 1922) is a Greek film director, cinematographer and actor, who was active in Greek and Soviet cinema. Determined to become a cinematographer, he enrolled in IDHEC (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques) and at the same time studied History of Art at the Sorbonne. In 1947, the decision was made by the KKE to centrally collect cinematographic and photographic equipment and to allocate it accordingly to cover the political-military needs of the time. In the spring of 1948, with two wind-up cinematographic cameras,…