Hristos Giannakopoulos(1909-1963)

Hristos Giannakopoulos was a Greek playwright, screenwriter and journalist. He was self-taught in theatrical writing and his first appearance as a playwright was in 1929, while until 1939 he collaborated with many writers in comedies, revues and operettas. From 1939 he began to work closely with Alekos Sakellarios in revues and comedies, songs and screenplays: Oi Germanoi xanarhontai... (1948), A Hero in His Slippers (1958), A Young Miss... Aged 39 (1954), Thanasis, the Politician (1954), A Ripple in the Pond (1952), Woe to the Young (1961) and others . He himself wrote the comedies 'Oi megaloi kai oi mikroi' and 'Mia tsouknida stis violetes'. He outlined the character of the Greek petty bourgeois with the contradictions, illusions and dead-ends he faced. He stood out for the immediacy of his writing, his sensitivity, his optimism and his intimacy.