The unveiling her bust of Friend of Fino in the Larissa Station park were held today, Thursday, April 25, 2024, by Minister of Culture Lady Lina Mendoni and the Mayor of Athens main Harry Doukas.
THE Society of Greek Directors through its President Xari Papadopoulos, among others, stated, among other things, that: “Filopoimin Finos, is the model of a Greece that struggles in adverse and difficult conditions and manages to win, highlighting the greatness of this place and this people. With the main means of honor and passion for the reconstruction of Greek cinema, he highlighted all those technicians, actors and directors who solidified our modern culture.
The unveiling of the bust of the patriarch of Greek cinema, the leading Greek film producer and founder of Finos Film, Philopoimenos Finou, was made by the Minister of Culture Lina Mendonis and the Mayor of Athens Haris Doukas, in the park of the Larissa station, Thursday, April 25, 2024. project, financed by the Ministry of Culture and created by the sculptor Vangelis Ilias.
(PRESS OFFICE OF THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE/EUROKINISSI)
He generously gave opportunities to the young people he considered his children, he highlighted all the talents we grew up with, he was always generous in the difficulties and difficulties of the people who worked alongside him, he listened to the new technologies that were circulating in his time and he had one and only vision for every artist he had under his wing: to succeed in every way by surpassing himself.
It was a vast school of knowledge but also of the ethics of solidarity and self-sacrifice. He was a refined and complete craftsman who tends to disappear nowadays. It is our wish and duty, we the creators and the State, to follow the example of the pioneer Philopoimenos Finos, so that we make our cinema the best ambassador of Greece.”
