Giorgos Zambetas
Also Known As: Γιώργος Ζαμπέτας, Γιωργος Ζαμπετας
Biography: Giorgos Zampetas (Pronounced 'Zabetas', Greek: Γιώργος Ζαμπέτας, sometimes romanized as George Zambetas / George Zabetas / Giorgos Zabetas; 25 January 1925 – 10 March 1992) was a Greek bouzouki musician. He was born in Athens, where he also died, but his origins were from the island of Kythnos. He was one of the most recognized Greek musicians of all times, working in the Greek cinema of those years with stars such as Aliki Vouyouklaki. He appeared in many Greek film productions, and his compositions used in many, one of the most famous being "Siko Horepse Sirtaki". He also worked with famous Greek composers, such as Manos Hadjidakis in 1959, and there after collaborated with various leading Greek musicians such as Theodorakis, Stavros Xarchakos and many others.
Department: Sound
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Adult: No
Birthday: January 25, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 10, 1992
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The Drunk of the Harbor
Overview: A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers the current owner of the villa that used to belong to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-05-26
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To Be or Not To Be
Overview: After his business' bankrupcy, Giorgos Alexiou decides to commit suicide. Rosa, his cousin's wife who stand to benefit form his death, hires a private detective to keep an eye on him in case he changes his mind. Minas, Giorgos' employee, becomes Giorgos' guardian angel preventing the suicide at the last minute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-08-14
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Taste from Greece
Overview: Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Το συρτάκι της αμαρτίας
Overview: Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Twins
Overview: By a cruel fate, a pair of newborn twin brothers get separated, and one of them becomes a pampered Casanova, while the other, lands a job at the factory of his unknown sibling's stepdad. Will the polar opposite twins reunite?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Τρία Κορίτσια απ'την Αμέρικα
Overview: A wealthy couple of Greek-Americans arrive in Greece with their three daughters, who meet three young men- pretending to be rich- and fall in love with them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Ο τρελός τα 'χει 400
Overview: A wretch employee wins a lot of money in the lottery and loses his mind. When he comes out of the mental hospital, he finds out that things at his home have changed radically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-10-21
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The Woman Driver
Overview: Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, borrows their new car. When Lilly crashes the car, she asks Mary to cover for her so that her husband doesn’t find about her new affair. The case of the car crash is brought to court, and Mary is accused. Things get so complicated that not even Lilly’s confession can solve the misunderstanding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-11-07
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Κίτσος Μίνι και Σουβλάκια
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Grouch
Overview: A nephew of three strange uncles loves a girl, but his uncles are against the marriage. A resourceful aunt takes the case and helps the couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-07-27
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Young and old in action...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-11-25
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Penelope's Suitors
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Ο Ανηψιός μου ο Μανώλης
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Get Up, Dance Sirtaki
Overview: With his pockets crammed with cash, a countryman in Athens becomes the target of a plotting compatriot and a beautiful singer who want to rinse him for every penny. But, he's already in love with the girl next door. Can he win this bet?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Ο Πεθερόπληκτος
Overview: Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business abroad. In Greece the mother-in-law gives the hotel's managment to Xristos but also loads to him all the work. Desperate, he decides to slam the yoke and kill her ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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Descended from Heaven
Overview: The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present everywhere, he is able to eavesdrop on what's going on: his youngest daughter lives it up with some Teddy boys, his eldest do not intend to marry her fiancé, his son has become a crook, and his wife a gambler.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-03-01
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Spend the first of the month
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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O boufos
Overview: An engineer is working hard without any substantial effect and he is not taking seriously the persistent remarks of his wife on this. When a businessman, on the one hand, and his company's executives, on the other hand, will try to lure him to serve their conflicting interests in the construction of a new road, the engineer reacts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-06-14
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O megalokarharias
Overview: Vangelis is a lazy guy who's trying to earn some money to marry his beloved, but he is captured by the police who confused him with a wanted man. Eventually, the true crook is arrested and Vangelis returns to his beloved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Groom from London
Overview: Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who works at a store selling electrical appliances that belongs to Betty’s father, Mr. Periklis. The latter values Kostas and truly wants to make him his son-in-law. Kostas saves the life of a sensitive girl, Mary, who tries to commit suicide because her English lover deserted her. Later on, he is persuaded to impersonate a rich Englishman in order to help Mary deal with her father, Mr. Kyriakos, who is trying to force her to marry someone against her will.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-04-17
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Company of Miracles
Overview: A God-fearing young man refuses to sell his, rich in ore, pasture to a mining company. So an agent of this company creates a scam of a so-called miracle in order to convince him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-11-14
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Ο Παραμυθάς
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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A Rich Without Money
Overview: A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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Electricity... Water... Telephone, Plots with Installments
Overview: Two friends get involved in a scam involving selling of land plots.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-08-27
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The Giant of Kypseli
Overview: Nikos is a short hairpin chandler, which has very high opinion of himself. Flirts shamelessly with the towering diva region, Clara, which has also been put on the eye and the irresistible charmer in the same area, Alekos, but she plays with both. The giggly maid mother of Clara, the Zambetas, is madly in love with Nick, but he snubbed the fanfare. One night the bouzouki, the Zambetas meets George Zambetas, who immediately recognized her talent and showcases a star of popular music, thereby becoming sought after bride
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Virgin Mary's Miracle
Overview: For the past six years, a desperate mother and her husband have been trying to locate their only daughter who is in the clutches of a ruthless wandering Romani musician. Will the miracle-working Virgin Mary reunite her with her family?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-02-02
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Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday
Overview: A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her. Against all logic, he refuses to turn her in to the police. Is there a future between them?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Ξύπνα καημένε Περικλή
Overview: To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his bookish secretary to give her a complete makeover, bent on making him notice her. But, can the new and improved lady win the philanderer's heart?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Ο Εξυπνάκιας
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Five Thousand Lies
Overview: A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the theft, the professor dies from joy, and the two students decide to return the figurine to its owner. There they meet his daughters, to whom they tell numerous lies. In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was part of a wager between the professor and the collector, and the two students fall in love with the latter's daughters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-10-17
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Η Παιχνιδιάρα
Overview: The Mikes family is wealthy son is in love with a poor girl, Katy. The Mikes afraid that his father would not approve their love, so Katy puts forwards a plan to win the favor of the candidate's father in law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Αστέρια στο βούρκο
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Παράνομοι πόθοι
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-02-14
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Το μυστικό μιας μητέρας
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος
Overview: A poor young man, who bears the surname of a rich shipowner, meets and falls in love with a rich heir. She does not believe that this is a coincidence and their relationship is built on a lie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Ενώνει ο πόνος δυο καρδιές
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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