Minas Hatzisavvas
Biography: Minas Hatzisavvas (Greek: Μηνάς Χατζησάββας; 28 January 1948 – 30 November 2015) was a Greek actor. He appeared in many films, television series and theatre plays with great success. He initially studied in France and later at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School in Athens. He played his first role in 1965 in Ancient Theatre of Dodona. It was the role of Paris in Rhesus of Euripides. His debut in cinema was in 1970. From that point on, he appeared in many films and won four film awards as both a leading and supporting actor for the films Ta Paidia tou Kronou, Kleisti Strofi, Lilly's Story and Worlds apart. He was bestowed with two television awards respectively for the television series I Agapi Argise mia Mera and Nyhterino Deltio.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 28, 1948
Deathday: November 30, 2015
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J.A.C.E.
2012-11-08
J.A.C.E.
Overview: Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where violent loss seems to be his only destiny. The movie follows Jace's inverted Odyssey in a dark universe of abuse, murder and fear, as he desperately (and silently) seeks for a "family" of his own or, at least, for a sense of belonging
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-08
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Medea, Louder Than My Thoughts
2014-03-01
Medea, Louder Than My Thoughts
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-03-01
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Unfair World
2012-02-02
Unfair World
Overview: Sotiris is a police investigator in Athens who lives by a strict moral code. An honest man, he carries himself as though held down by the weight of the world. Dora is a cleaning lady, struggling to get by any way she can. Dealt a rough hand in life, she has developed a rich layer of cynicism and mistrust that informs her every action. When a man Sotiris believes is innocent is arrested for a brutal crime, his attempt to uncover the truth results in a grave mistake. Finding himself on the other side of the law for the first time, he places his fate in Dora, the only witness to his malfeasance and the only person who can help him, for better or for worse.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2012-02-02
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Το κολιέ
1985-10-05
Το κολιέ
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-05
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Hostage
2005-03-04
Hostage
Overview: Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers hostage and demands a ransom of half and million euro, and safe passage to his homeland of Albania. Surrounded by police, the bus trundles towards the Albanian border and the tension mounts until the final harrowing conclusion.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2005-03-04
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The Third Night
2003-01-17
The Third Night
Overview: The wife, a girl and a woman, lose their husband, father and lover in a plane crash. As it turns out, all three women are waiting for some news about the same man. In the end it is confirmed that the man died in the accident.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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The King
2002-11-09
The King
Overview: A 35-year old man, just released from jail, decides to make a clean break from the big city and his troubled past. He retreats to the abandoned village his father came from and moves into an old, collapsing house. Alone, far from the bigger village and doing petty jobs to survive, he will strive to find himself once more. Amidst a haze of suspicion and scorn by villagers who treat him an intruder, his past catches up to him in the form of his girlfriend from Athens. Conflict is inescapable
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2002-11-09
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Η άλλη όψη
1991-09-01
Η άλλη όψη
Overview: A film by Tasos Psarras.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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Truants
1996-12-06
Truants
Overview: The story follows the sporadic reunions of six friends during the seven year period of their integration into society. The reunions take place on their ancestral island, the setting of their common past. Every time they return "home" they carry with them the results of their personal choices. They also carry with them the effects of modern Greek society, a society the slowly but surely changes them, weathering their relationships, until they gradually lose contact with each other. The end of this epoch, will find them dispersed, confronting the dawn of an era where the pursuit of individual ambitions reigns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-12-06
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Worlds Apart
2015-12-17
Worlds Apart
Overview: Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2015-12-17
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Welcome to 'All Saints
2011-03-31
Welcome to 'All Saints
Overview: The trainee Orthopedic Doctor George Spyrou began his career in the fictional General Orthopedic Hospital "All Saints', somewhere on the outskirts of Athens. There you will discover that the hospital population, by physicians, administrators and nurses, to patients, they are all forced to confront dancing a grotesque dance routine. With humor and humanity within a social landscape so angry George Spyratos trying to balance between the warring parties these microcosms. The gradual evolution from inexperienced trainee to experienced editor will be done through the encounter with the absurd environment. Something that would transform from naive young man who initially stands speechless in front of modern Greek chaos, a mature man who will ultimately make a thoughtful account of choice, but persevere, continue to work on public health.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-03-31
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The Cistern
2001-11-10
The Cistern
Overview: In 1974, a group of 11-year-old boys spend the last carefree summer of their childhood, unaware that the world of grown-ups, with its loves, passions, prejudices and curses, is about to seal their fate. Aaron, Stelios, Sakis, Galanos and Verios, "the acrobats", are best friends. School has closed for the summer holidays and the children spend their time playing games, running errands, and riding their bikes. Life is a game, into which they channel all their physical energy and imagination. They practice their diving abilities in a big cistern. It is a game through which their special talents and competitive spirit unfold. One is good at balancing acts, another at diving and another at somersaults. It is in this neighborhood that Aaron will spend the most important summer of his life: a rite of passage from childhood to adolescence, a time for learning about love, jealousy and friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2001-11-10
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Such a Long Absence
1985-10-31
Such a Long Absence
Overview: After the death of her father a young woman who was a student in Germany suffers a nervous breakdown and withdraws inside herself. Her younger sisterʼs attempt to stop the family from having her locked up in a mental hospital fails and brings about her own mental decline. The film marked Stavros Tsiolis re-emergence after a 14-year absence but was also the film debut of actress Pemi Zouni.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-31
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The Cronos Children
1985-10-03
The Cronos Children
Overview: Aris and Thanos are good friends and they share an apartment. The arrival of Stella will unbalance their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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Athens Blues
2001-06-22
Athens Blues
Overview: A group of men in their sixties that spend the August nights in Athens outside a pharmacy during night shift, an ambulance driver who has an affair with a younger girl, a middle-aged couple who have invented a lie to renew their passion for one another, a child pretending to sleepwalk in the streets of Athens, two younger people who are tied together in an office after a burglar attack, and other amorous encounters during the same night.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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U-Turn
1991-09-01
U-Turn
Overview: A lone car thief, meets a mysterious and charming woman who would be the love of his life but will lure him into a dangerous adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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Eastern Periphery
1979-12-03
Eastern Periphery
Overview: A young chemical engineer finds a new job in a multinational corporation. As he climbs the career ladder, he loses his humanity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1979-12-03
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Day Off
1982-10-09
Day Off
Overview: Against the backdrop of Athens' bustling streets, a Greek white-collar worker starts his day off by doing various errands, and even though he hasn't worked all day, in reality, he is exhausted. Is this what his typical day off looks like?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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The Love of Ulysses
1984-03-18
The Love of Ulysses
Overview: Directed by Vasilis Vafeas
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1984-03-18
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Farther Right Than the Right
1989-10-01
Farther Right Than the Right
Overview: The secret services of the junta use a resisting captain who is now their prisoner in order to trap some resistance kernels. The conflicting ideological trajectories of people, each representing something specific, are drifting from the whirlpool of history, composing a mosaic of representative heroes of a time.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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I Dream of My Friends
1993-11-13
I Dream of My Friends
Overview: Four episodes, four instances from a man’s life covering 25 years, from 1965 in Germany to 1990 in Athens. The episodes seem to be irrelevant to one another, yet they all focus on male powerplay, reveal the self-consciousness and moderation of the protagonist’s idiosyncrasy and depict some special aspects of the Greek male mentality. Probably Nikos Panayotopoulos’ most personal film, covering a substantial period of his generation’s years, “I’m dreaming of my friends” is based on the book by Dimitris Nollas, looks a lot like a “road movie” and features an all-male cast, as if there’s no room for women in it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1993-11-13
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Η ζωή ενάμιση χιλιάρικο
1995-10-01
Η ζωή ενάμιση χιλιάρικο
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-10-01
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A Time to Kill
1993-09-11
A Time to Kill
Overview: Two friends, former shooting champions get involved with the world of professional assassins.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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Tomorrow Is Another Day
2001-11-15
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Overview: A mother with her ten year old son, are looking to find an apartment for rent but those who finds are expensive or hide bizarre people and chaotic situations. But time is short and there is a risk being left on the road.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2001-11-15
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N' Me for Myself
2009-09-25
N' Me for Myself
Overview: Antonis always goes by train. He is in a rush to make it on time. His recent past keeps catching up on him. Reality does not allow him to escape the images. That's how it is. because that's how it goes. He couldn't give a damn about anything. He needs to pee. Dependent on his girlfriend just as he's on himself. He doesn't owe anything to anybody.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Η Ωραία Ελένη
2004-12-17
Η Ωραία Ελένη
Overview: After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2004-12-17
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John the Violent
1973-09-29
John the Violent
Overview: The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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1922
1978-04-01
1922
Overview: Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1978-04-01
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