THE CANARY YELLOW BICYCLE/ To Canarini Podilato

Director: Dimitris Stavrakas

Cast: Dimitris Alexandris, Yorgos Halaris, Manos Vakousis, Thanos Grammenos, Nikos Yorgakis and Alexandra Pandelaki

When Aris Skourtis is hired to teach 6th grade in an Athens elementary school, he takes a personal interest in Lefteris, an almost illiterate kid who's laughed at by his classmates. He decides to help the child find a way out of its predicament, only to find his efforts thwarted by all sorts of obstacles, not the least of which is the distrust of Lefteris himself.

Dimitris Stavrakas Filmography

2005: The Crossing

1999: The Canary Yellow Bicycle

1983: Misunderstanding

Born in 1938, Stavrakas studied at the Stavrakos Film School and became an assistant director working on various film productions. He also was film critic for the magazine Art Review and for the newspaper Dimokratiki Allaghi.

In 1967 he directed the short film GAS in 1967 before leaving for Paris where he worked as camera operator and studied Sociology, Demography and City Planning at the Sorbonne University. Upon his return to Greece in 1975 he worked on various television productions and wrote articles on the cinema for the magazine Anti.