Kostas Kazakos
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kostas Kazakos (Pyrgos, Ilia, 29 May 1935 – 13 September 2022) was a Greek actor and director. He was elected Member of Parliament with the KKE (Communist Party of Greece) in 2007 and 2009. He was a graduate of the Lykourgos Stavrakos Film School (specifically the Actors and Directors department) as well as the Karolos Koun Drama School of Theatre Arts. In 1973 he was awarded the First Gold Award of the Thessaloniki Film Festival for the most complete production, of the adaptation of Lysistrata. He was vice-president of the Greek Center of the International Theatre Institute. He was a founding member of the Hellenic-Arab Association and a member of the Actor's Licensing Committee, co-founder of the Free Theatre (together with Leon Trivizas) and founder of the "Jenny Karezi" Foundation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kostas Kazakos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: May 29, 1935
Deathday: September 13, 2022
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Iphigenia
1977-09-10
Iphigenia
Overview: The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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Act of Reprisal
1964-01-01
Act of Reprisal
Overview: Love story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Master of the Shadows
1991-05-26
Master of the Shadows
Overview: Shadow puppetry is not only part of the heritage of East Asia; Greece had its own traditional form of this popular art. In this leisurely drama, set in 1950s Athens, Antonis Barkis (Kostas Kasakos) is the master puppeteer for a traditional shadow show. However, although he is still making a living, it is clear that other forms of popular entertainment will soon supplant this one. This does not improve Antonis' temper, and his assistant's desires to modernize their entertainments only make it worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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Bullets Don't Come Back
1967-09-01
Bullets Don't Come Back
Overview: From a tragic misunderstanding, the farmer Stathis Karatasos (Angelos Antonopoulos) is accused as the leader of a notorious gang. He manages to escape just before getting executed and the law enforcement starts chasing him. Even the bandits are looking to find him, believing that he has the loot of the robbery in his possession. In addition, another prisoner called Tsakos (Kostas Kazakos) tries to locate him and bring him back dead or alive, in order to ensure the freedom promised to him by the police.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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Lysistrata
1972-09-25
Lysistrata
Overview: Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-09-25
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Το κορίτσι του "17"
1969-10-04
Το κορίτσι του "17"
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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I Die Every Dawn
1969-02-03
I Die Every Dawn
Overview: The story of three young girls that are sisters and remain with their mother a tavern in the port. The Persa, the more dynamic it has relations with the labeled Zachos. The Tasia waiting at the port for years, the return of her beloved. Hara, a tomboy, reluctant to reveal feelings for Alekos, who sees it as a good childhood friend. Among all these catalytic moves a man of law, Orpheus.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-02-03
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Erotic Symphony
1972-01-01
Erotic Symphony
Overview: The Peace and Betty are twins and look like as two drops of water but their characters are completely different. Betty is open and jovial man while peace is closed off and timid. Their music professor Roda visitors to their island home and proposes to the Peace who are virtuoso piano to follow a series of concerts in Paris. Initially HESITATES but when Betty will announce that he will marry with Petro, with which peace is also in love, will change their minds and accept the proposal of Roda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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A Matter of Fatal Importance
1973-01-02
A Matter of Fatal Importance
Overview: The Antonis Maras, a successful professional, and his wife Olga live a peaceful and happy life until the Antonis discovers the double life of his wife. Instructs s` an employee to monitor and eventually will discover that the husband goes secretly to a remote house. The secret of Olga, however, is that extorted by a coil holding her brother hostage. The brother of escapes and suicides and members of Spiral abduct Olga.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-01-02
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Love and Blood
1968-01-01
Love and Blood
Overview: The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well. Whatever crosses the river separating the two families, be it man or beast, dies. The film is yet another rendering of the Romeo and Juliet tale, with intense emotions, dominated by the extreme behavior of the heroes. The film tries to imitate the style, atmosphere and action of westerns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Concert for Machine Guns
1967-07-22
Concert for Machine Guns
Overview: Athens, shortly before the outbreak of World War II and an Army General Staff official, Niki (Jenny Carezis), is charged with channeling confidential documents to an Italian agent. The category is right. The girl was blackmailing herself with the life of her brother studying in Italy. She does not make any effort to defend herself and is indifferent if she is sentenced to death, but she accepts the cooperative proposal proposed by General Darius, that is to continue to channel secret documents to the Italians, but now they are deliberately made to deceive the enemy . The whole case is also involved with a captain, Theodorou, who is in love with Niki. Theodorou is arrested for misappropriation of documents and goes through a military court where he is sentenced to demolition and death. Certainly, his execution was fictitious, and on the day Greek troops enter Korça, he is shown alive to Niki, which does not hide her surprise.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-07-22
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The face of the day
1965-08-14
The face of the day
Overview: Grigoris (Kostas Voutsas), a shopkeeper from Katerini, wins the first prize at a radio station that covers his expenses for a week in Athens. Arriving in the capital, the members of two gangs think it is Polydoros, the man who was to carry a stolen ancient statue to sell it to a rich collector. Grigoris, by chance, acquires the statue, and the captain (Kostas Kazakos) of a gang, with the help of a charming woman (Eleni Prokopiou), tries to trap him. Eventually, Grigoris will be hunted by both the gangs and the police ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-08-14
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Με Πόνο και με Δάκρυα
1965-11-17
Με Πόνο και με Δάκρυα
Overview: Alekos serves as captain of LOC in the area of Trikala. He loves Maria, which she keeps her relationship hidden from hers. When her father discovers it, he sends her to a monastery. Alekos is looking for her but can not find her. He leaves for the war, where after an injury he will lose his memory ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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The Avenue of Hate
1968-10-13
The Avenue of Hate
Overview: An unconscious driver fatally injures a woman and leaves her helpless to die. The victim was the wife of investigator Kostas Kyriazis, who, six years later, is called upon to solve a similar incident. He will not be able to perform his work without emotional involvement and passion, as he leads to the conclusion that the driver being treated is the same as the person responsible for the death of his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-10-13
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A Woman in the Resistance
1970-01-01
A Woman in the Resistance
Overview: 1940. Anna stay alone, her husband her brother her father leave for the war with the Italians. The attack of the Germans will give a hard blow to her family. She will continue to fight, approaching the German commander of the area.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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We despised My Sweetness
1965-01-01
We despised My Sweetness
Overview: To preserve his mother and sister, Michalis works at the port of Piraeus. His sister falls in love with a poor young man, but she is engaged to another man. When the girl loses her light in an accident, her fiancée will disappear, and only the young man who really loves her will stay with her. The latter will sell the coffee shop that is given to him by a friend and he will be able to cure it in America.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Man with the Carnation
1980-11-23
The Man with the Carnation
Overview: The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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Panic
1969-11-20
Panic
Overview: Returning from a business trip to Rhodes, Markos finds out that his sick son has been kidnapped. He agrees to pay the ransom that the kidnappers demand but the police officer Makridis sees that the money used is marked so they can track them down.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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The Roundup
1965-01-09
The Roundup
Overview: One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work in Greece before the advent of the 1967 dictatorship forced him to flee to Paris. This confused mess, the first cinematic attempt at portraying the Greek resistance in WWII, caused quite a stink upon release, as much for its surprising style (recalling that of Bertolt Brecht) as for its subject matter. Reaction to its screening as part of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival's International Critic's Week was heated and divisive, proving Kyrou's later statement by rising above its own inherent silliness to achieve a sort of rarefied critical status. It's bad drama that nonetheless succeeds by dint of audacity more than quality (a comment which could apply equally to the work of many exploitation directors like Jean Rollin whom Kyrou later so lovingly profiled).
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-09
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Underwater Papanikolis
1971-09-24
Underwater Papanikolis
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Genres: Drama History War Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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Τα Σαράντα Παλληκάρια
1961-01-01
Τα Σαράντα Παλληκάρια
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Betrayed love
1962-06-06
Betrayed love
Overview: Anna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, where she will spend a year with another aunt. When she returns to Athens, her aunt will try to marry her off to a rich young man, but she is still in love with Stratos.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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In the name of the law
1970-05-09
In the name of the law
Overview: A traumatised Korean War veteran is accused of arson and murder. Now, the deceased's criminal attorney daughter is determined to send him in prison, even though he claims he's innocent. Will she destroy a man in the name of the law?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-05-09
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A Woman's Past
1968-02-01
A Woman's Past
Overview: A nightclub singer is forced to shoot her ex-boyfriend, who has escaped from prison and is blackmailing her for money. Believing him to be dead, the girl decides to leave and start her life anew. She marries a wealthy gentleman, who is unaware of her past, and together they have a baby girl. One day, however, an old friend – who, by a devilish coincidence, is also her husband’s brother – will return, threatening to reveal everything about her past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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Εξωτικές Βιταμίνες
1964-01-01
Εξωτικές Βιταμίνες
Overview: A middle-aged womaniser takes in his distant cousin, who has fled from an arranged marriage, and she decides to use a potent love potion to seduce the unattainable object of her desire. Can a dash of exotic vitamins help her succeed?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Απόκληροι της κοινωνίας
1965-01-01
Απόκληροι της κοινωνίας
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Ο γυρισμός του στρατιώτη
1966-01-01
Ο γυρισμός του στρατιώτη
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Abduction of Persephone
1956-10-15
The Abduction of Persephone
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-10-15
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Οι ένοχοι
1966-11-26
Οι ένοχοι
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Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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Η Στοργή
1965-01-01
Η Στοργή
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Ταξίδι στην Πρωτεύουσα
1982-10-01
Ταξίδι στην Πρωτεύουσα
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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Sidewalk
1962-01-01
Sidewalk
Overview: Angelina is a prostitute. Her only friends are her colleague Nana and coachman Minas. George suddenly enters her life and confesses his love to her. Angelina begins to believe that her life can change, not suspecting that George has approached her on behalf of the drug dealer Nino.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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