El Greco (2007 film)

El Greco
Directed by	Yannis Smaragdis
Written by	Screenplay: Jackie Pavlenko Yannis Smaragdis Book: Dimitris Siatopoulos
Produced by	Eleni Smaragdi Raimon Masllorens Dénes Szekeres Georgios Fragkos
Starring	Nick Ashdon Juan Diego Botto Laia Marull Lakis Lazopoulos Dimitra Matsouka Sotiris Moustakas† Dina Konsta Giorgos Christodoulou Dimitris Kallivokas Giorgos Charalampidis Thodoris Zoumboulidis Lida Protopsalti Constantinos Isaias Katerina Helmi Fermi Reixach Roger Coma
Cinematography	Aris Stavrou
Edited by	Giannis Tsitsopoulos
Music by	Vangelis
Distributed by	Audiovisual
Release dates	18 October 2007 (2007-10-18) 22 May 2009 (2009-05-22) (U.S.)
Running time	119 minutes
Countries	Greece Spain
Languages	English, Greek, Spanish
Box office	$8,246,050 Greece[1] $674,095 Spain[2] $3,493 Bulgaria[3]

El Greco is a Greek biographical film about the life of the Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known worldwide as El Greco. Based on the fictionalized biographical novel, El Greco: o Zografos tou Theou (El Greco: the Painter of God), by Dimitris Siatopoulos, it was released in 2007, directed by Yannis Smaragdis and written by Jackie Pavlenko. The main cast features prominent contemporary Greek actors like Lakis Lazopoulos, Dimitra Matsouka and Dina Konsta, and includes popular actors of the Greek cinema of the 1960s such as Sotiris Moustakas and Katerina Helmi, who, along with Juan Diego Botto, Laia Marull and others, surround the leading actor, Nick Ashdon, who portrays El Greco.