---
name: "Thanasis Valtinos"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/thanasis-valtinos"
fi1m_id: "thanasis-valtinos"
imdb_id: "nm0885407"
tmdb_id: 150569
wikidata_id: "Q3562411"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "16 December 1932"
died: "30 October 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:50:07.793074+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Thanasis Valtinos

## Identity

Thanasis Valtinos

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/thanasis-valtinos
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** thanasis-valtinos
- **IMDb ID:** nm0885407
- **TMDB ID:** 150569
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3562411
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3562411, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0885407/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150569

Writer. Born 16 December 1932 in Karatoulas, Arcadias, Greece. Died 30 October 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 16 December 1932, Karatoulas, Arcadias, Greece
- **Died:** 30 October 2024
- **Also known as:** Thanassis Valtinos
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3562411, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0885407/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150569

## Biography

Thanasis Valtinos (also credited as Thanassis Valtinos) was a Greek writer and screenwriter. He was born on 16 December 1932 in Karatoulas, Arcadia, and died on 30 October 2024 in Athens. He wrote screenplays for several films directed by Theo Angelopoulos, including *Voyage to Cythera* (1984), for which he shared the Cannes Film Festival screenplay prize, *Landscape in the Mist* (1988), and *The Suspended Step of the Stork* (1991).

Valtinos was also a prominent prose writer whose novels and short stories often explored Greek history and the experiences of ordinary people. He collaborated with the Art Theater of Karolos Koun and translated ancient Greek tragedies. He served as general manager of ERT (1989–1990) and president of the Hellenic Film Center (2005–2006), and was elected president of the Academy of Athens. He received the Great State Prize for Literature in 2012.

*Sources: imdb.com, kathimerini.gr, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Landscape in the Mist* (1988), Fi1m 83, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/landscape-in-the-mist.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Flight of the Swan* (2011), Writer
- *The Wing of the Fly* (1995), Writer
- *The Suspended Step of the Stork* (1991), Writer
- *Landscape in the Mist* (1988), Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/landscape-in-the-mist.md)
- *Birth City* (1988), Writer
- *The Night with Silena* (1986), Script Consultant
- *Voyage to Cythera* (1984), Writer
- *The Descent of the Nine* (1984), Novel, Screenplay
- *The Song Of Return* (1983), Writer
- *John the Violent* (1973), Actor
- *Days of '36* (1972), Writer
- *Reconstruction* (1970), Writer
- *Nightwalks* (1964), Writer
- *Ενώ Σφύριζε Το Τραίνο* (1961), Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 1989: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *Landscape in the Mist*
- Best Screenplay Award 1984: Best Screenplay Award (won), for *Voyage to Cythera*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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