Lefteris Xanthopoulos was born in Athens in February 1945.
He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens without sitting through the final exams, and cinema at The London Film School in England.
He has published fifteen books (poetry, prose, essays, testimony) and directed over forty short and feature films and documentaries: Happy Homecoming, Comrade – Master of the Shadows (O Drapetis) – Giorgos from Sotirianika – Greek Community in Heidelberg – Who’s the Crazy Hare (Miltos Sachtouris) – Inheritor of Birds (Miltos Sachtouris) – At Tourkovounia – At Colonus – The Dark Conspirator (Michalis Katsaros) – At Home by the Sea (H. Ch. Papadimitrakopoulos) – The Carnival and Karagiozis – The Bitter Story of Andrei Gorenko (Anna Akhmatova) – The Garden with the Innumerable Windows (Nikos Engonopoulos) – Blessed Hands (Christos Kapralos) – The Age of the Centaurs (Alekos Xenos) – Take the Gifts (Titos Patrikios, Kiki Dimoula) – Block 25 (Hostage Testimony) and many more. His latest poetry collection is titled Anthropos Midenikon Apochroseon, publ. Gavriilidis.