Ado Kyrou

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Adonis A. Kyrou (Greek: Άδωνις Α. Κύρου, Adonis A. Kyrou; 18 October 1923 – 4 November 1985) was a Greek-French filmmaker and writer, whose works often appeared under the name Ado Kyrou. A member of the surrealist movement and a key contributor to the film journal Positif, he is best known for his books on surrealist cinema and eroticism, notably Le Surréalisme au cinéma (1953) and Amour-érotisme et cinéma (1957). He directed several short films and two features, including Le Moine (1972). Kyrou was born in Athens on 18 October 1923 into a prominent conservative family; his father, Achilleus A. Kyrou, was the owner of the major Greek newspaper Estia. He studied law at the University of Athens but became politically radicalised, joining the Greek Resistance during the Axis occupation of Greece and serving with EAM-ELAS as a student. Following the assassination of the right-wing resistance figure Kitsos Maltezos, reprisals were carried out against EAM members; Kyrou was among those attacked, suffering a spinal wound from an assault by members of the right-wing nationalist student group ESAS and the collaborationist Special Security Directorate, and was rescued through the personal intervention of Ioannis Rallis. His participation in the Resistance caused a permanent break with his father. He left Greece for France in 1945, settling in Paris as a political refugee. Although frequently cited as a passenger on the 1945 Mataroa voyage, this attribution is erroneous. In Paris, Kyrou completed a degree in literature at the Sorbonne while working as a correspondent for a Greek newspaper.