Thanasis Tzeneralis
Also Known As: Θάνος Τζενεράλης, Θανάσης Τζενεράλης, Θανος Τζενεραλης, Θανασης Τζενεραλης, Thanos Tzeneralis
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Birthday: January 01, 1910
Deathday: March 05, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Lily of the Harbor
Overview: Captain Giakoumis makes the big decision to forsake the sea and live peacefully close to his wife and his adopted son, Andreas, who is about to sit for examinations in order to become a lieutenant. However, a terrible secret burdens his soul. He has a daughter, Agni, whom he had years ago when he had an affair with Maria, a prostitute from Troumpa. Maria, before she died, expressed the wish that Giakoumis recognize their daughter as his child. He, however, refused, since Agni ended up becoming a prostitute. The girl, to take revenge on her father, starts an affair with her half-brother with the intention of dragging him down into the mud. In the end, however, she falls in love with him, and this love blesses everyone and everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-01-14
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Madalena
Overview: Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-10-24
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Memories of a Sunday
Overview: This film narrates six different stories in a very lyrical way: a coachman wanders around town; two elderly people go to the park every Sunday; a man leaves flowers in various neighbourhoods in memory of a friend who was killed during the war; a boy narrates how they celebrated his father’s name-day; a member of the resistance lives his last moments; a woman keeps waiting for a letter which never arrives. (Greek Film Archive)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1975-03-14
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Party, Money and Love
Overview: Angelos, a law student in Athens, is expecting Lavrentis, his rich uncle from the village, hoping that with his money, his luck will change. His uncle though is very sick and the doctors suggest rest and calmness. Youyou, Angelos' girlfriend though suggests otherwise in order to push the rich uncle closer to his death. And so, Angelos, with two friends from his village, Damian and Sarantis start partying with Lavrentis whose health starts getting better and better. In the meantime Angelos meets Myrto, falls madly in love with her and decide to finish his studies and marry her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-11-14
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The Drunkard
Overview: After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When his daughter falls in love with a rich young man, he tries in vain to hide his passion from the young man's family...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1950-01-23
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Overview: Ilias dresses himself in a police uniform as part of a complex burglary plot. Unfortunately for him, the impostor officer is called to assist in the investigation of a real crime. The other officers involved in this case treat him as a colleague, and he is forced to play along in hopes that his cover is not blown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-05-30
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The Unknown
Overview: Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is based on the 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848-1912). Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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Those Not Allowed to Love
Overview: Pavlos, a conservatory student dreaming of becoming a great artist of quality music, lives with his fiancée Kaiti in a small room, hosted by two friends. Due to financial tribulations, he is forced to join his friends' folk band and performs every night at a night club. That's were Mr Giorgos and his lover Liza frequent. Liza, a rich girl, falls in love with Pavlos and tries to seduce him. However, when she realizes how deeply he loves his fiancée, decides to help him get back together with Kaiti.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1951-01-29
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At Night The Entanglements
Overview: The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Santa Chikita
Overview: A poor man accepts the money someone offers him to marry a foreign woman so that she can stay in Greece.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Come to Uncle
Overview: Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but he is the only heir to his uncle, who considers marriage as the only solution to his nephew’s problems. That’s why he is looking for a bride for him by checking the newspaper ads. Due to a printing error, an ad for the sale of a sewing machine appears in the personal ads column, bringing uncle and nephew to the house of a serious and honest estate agent who has two single sisters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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Φτωχαδάκια και Λεφτάδες
Overview: Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renouncing their sweethearts just to get a greater chance at a lucrative love. But, what does the girl have to say about their risky business?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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Grousouzis
Overview: Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the surprise of everyone, decides to adopt it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-11-03
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The Counterfeit Coin
Overview: Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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The Money
Overview: The sudden heritage, which is announced to two mercantiles, infuses their minds and begins to live richly, forgetting their previous lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-03-31
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The Driver
Overview: A poor taxi driver works hard in order to pay off his car and to marry his fiancee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1953-02-02
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A Young Miss... Aged 39
Overview: Telemachus, an unhappy old man, still lives with his sister, whom he expects to restore so that he marries the woman he loves. In the end, he is persuaded by a friend to put an ad in the newspaper to find her bridegroom, without mentioning her real age and highlighting her dowry. Finally, two bridal candidates appear: A retired and a Greek-Argentine landowner...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-08-29
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A Hero in His Slippers
Overview: A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited by his future son-in-law who informs him that he is going to immigrate to Australia. On the same day, his cousin Apostolos pays him a visit as well and tells him that the government intending to honor him has decided to construct his statue and place it at the small square in front of his house.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-11-06
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Greedy for Everything
Overview: The avaricious Athenian, Fanouris Karababas, forbids his daughter to marry her beloved and behaves cruelly to his wife. But she persuades him that he suffers from a rare disease.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-02-08
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One Street Organ, One Life
Overview: An organ grinder (Orestis Makris) loses his wife from complications during birth. Distraught by her death, he refuses to take care of the baby and gives it to a family (Lavrentis Dianellos and Nitsa Tsaganea) to raise. The child (Jenny Karezi) is raised comfortably, and her natural father is too embarrassed to meet her - until she falls in love with a poor musician (Petros Fysoun), and her foster parents refuse to accept their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-11-28
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The Swindlers
Overview: Three friends living day by day on the streets of Athens by put-up jobs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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The Last Mission
Overview: The Last Mission (Greek: Teleftaia apostoli) is a 1950 Greek drama film directed by Nikos Tsiforos. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1949-04-03
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Η Μοίρα Γράφει Την Ιστορία
Overview: Anna is been abondoned by her lover and she's forced to give her newborn child for adoption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Heaven Is Ours
Overview: A small and poor girl who lives with her sick adoptive grandmother knows and falls in love with a apotakto Air Force. Friend is an Aviation Group Captain. He and his wife have lost their little girl for several years. It turns out that the poor girl was their daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1953-12-07
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We Have Only One Life
Overview: A bank teller discovers an accounting error, becomes rich and lives his life like he's never lived it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-05-08
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The Grouch
Overview: A fastidious family man torments his wife and his niece with his nagging. He opposes his niece's double-dating with his partner and a client of his.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-12-29
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Η θυσία της μάνας
Overview: A mother decides to present as her own the child that her unmarried daughter has given birth to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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