When in 1985, I. Smaragdis decided to form his own production company and having ascertained that his best work so far was GOOD NIGHT TO YOU, MR. ALEXANDER, he named his firm ALEXANDROS FILM. He kept the same name when he changed the company’s legal entity to a limited company in 1998. One more reason for keeping the same name was because he named his only son Alexander. ALEXANDROS FILM Co Ltd. exists to this day.

Through ALEXANDROS FILM Co Ltd. and with the invaluable help of his lifetime partner Eleni, Iannis Smaragdis created many feature films, hit television series and documentaries.

The company’s most important works in the audiovisual industry are:

The exceptional series developed for television “Hush… Our Country is Sleeping” (1987). A collection of 13 one-off episodes based loosely on 13 short stories by Jaroslav Hašek, with an army of exquisite actors and the best scriptwriters of the time. It was the year when Eleni Smaragdi began her new career at ALEXANDROS FILM Co Ltd, as producer. It was a happy time for both the company and the director. The series officially participated at the Golden Prague International Television Festival in 1989, received major reviews and ratings reached 60-70%.

However, it was in 2007 that the team hit gold with their film EL GRECO. It was a Greek-Spanish-Hungarian co-production, the largest production ever made in Greece with a budget of 6.333.000€ with Spain’s first ever participation on a Greek project.
It won eight (8) State Awards including Best Picture, Best Direction, Photography, Music, Editing, Sound and Make-Up, as well as the Audience Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Juan Diego Botto received the Prize for Best Actor at the Cairo International Film Festival and costumer Lala Huete won the Goya Award for the film’s superb costumes. The film officially participated in many other Festivals, such as TIFF, Sao Paolo, Guadallahara, Pantalla Pinamar in Argentina and many more.
EL GRECO managed one of the highest box office hits in Greece with 1.200.000 admissions and was released in Spain, Hungary, Russia and France.

In October 2012 another major moment came true for ALEXANDROS FILM and its team, with the film GOD LOVES CAVIAR, with a varied and wonderful cast of top European actors such as Sebastian Koch, John Cleese, Catherine Deneuve, Juan Diego Botto, Evgeny Stychkin and many more. The film participated at the Toronto International Film Festival, at the Shanghai International Film Festival, at Pantalla Pinamar, to name a few. Furthermore, it was that same year that director Iannis Smaragdis was voted the most popular artist in Greece.