Czech director and screenwriter of Greek origin, George Agathonikiadis, has literary processed his own, uniquely conceived experiences from his childhood. He remembers his grandparents, with whom he grew up, school and teachers who did not always understand the position of a child-foreigner, his first erotic experiences, secret visits to the cinema, all kinds of mischief experienced with friends. Under the title Na Moravě nekvetou olivy tells sweet stories, full of tenderness and humanity. He tries to capture fleeting moments that are either absorbed by time or lost in infinity. The stories are sometimes absurd, they do not lack imagination. The author sensitively describes the exodus of Greek children after the civil war in Greece, finding themselves in a completely unfamiliar environment and in linguistic and social isolation. It is by no means a pessimistic reading. George narrates his experiences with humor and poetry, and his characters are close to people with a grabal pearl at the bottom of their soul, which he searches for and finds. He himself claims: "Man without memory is at the mercy of an illusory existence."

George Agathonikiadis was born on August 10, 1947 in Megali Sterna, Kilkis District, Northern Greece. In the years 1949-1983 he lived in Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the secondary textile industrial school in Brno, majoring in women's clothing and theater costume design. He then graduated from FAMU in Prague, majoring in directing. He has lived in Athens since 1983, where until 2012 he worked as a director and head of the literary-dramatic editorial office at the public television ERT. He is married with two daughters.
For example, he directed the feature films Autumn Return, Bitter Snow, The Stranger and My Uncle Archimedes, which was awarded at the Porto festival. Under his direction, the Theater in Most staged Fellini's The Road or Ota Pavel's play Good Dad and My, as well as the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. From the ambassador of the Czech Republic in Athens, George Agathonikiadis received an award for the long-term development of cultural cooperation between the Czech Republic and Greece.