Zoe Laskari
Also Known As: Zoi Laskari, Ζωή Λάσκαρη, Λασκαρη Ζωη
Biography: Zoe Laskari (Greek: Ζωή Λάσκαρη, 12 December 1942 – 18 August 2017) was a Greek film and stage actress. Due to her success at the beauty pageant, director Giannis Dalianidis, offered her the starring role in O katiforos, a 1961 film, whose success gave her a rapid popularity and she shortly signed an exclusive contract with the biggest Greek film production company at the time, Finos Film.The films in which she appeared ranged from dramas to comedies and musicals. Some of her later movies were Stefania (1966) and Oi Thalassies oi Hadres (1967). Other Laskari film hits were Nomos 4000, Merikoi to protimoun kryo, Koritsia gia filima, Dakrya gia tin Ilektra, Mia kyria sta bouzoukia and Marihouana stop. Her stage work included famous plays like Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the ancient Greek tragedy The Trojan Women by Euripides and Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park. Her theatrical hits include the play Oi erastes tou Oneirou which was also her first play in Athens. Laskari's first television appearance was her leading role in the TV series Romaios kai Ioulieta in 1976.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Greece
Birthday: December 12, 1944
Deathday: August 18, 2017
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Someone like It Cold...
Overview: Lakis (Dinos Iliopoulos) has to make sure that his three sisters are married before he can marry his beloved Lela (Martha Karagianni). While at the beach, Eva (Zoe Laskari) and Maria (Hloi Liaskou) will meet Kleopas (Costas Voutsas) and Giorgos (Vagelis Voulgaridis) with whom they will start dating. But Rena (Rena Vlahopoulou) has a secret relationship with Thodoros (Giannis Vogiatzis) for 10 years.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-10
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The Wise Guy
Overview: Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-15
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What Kind of Soul Will You Deliver To God Bitch?
Overview: What Kind of Soul Will You Deliver To God Bitch? is a Greek black comedy mini-series created by Alexandros Rigas and Dimitris Apostolou which aired on Mega Channel on 2000 and lasted only 6 episodes. The series focuses on the lives of four women who want to take revenge from the man who sexually abused them when they were little girls. Despite the fact that Ti Psychi Tha Paradoseis Mori? draw extremely high ratings from its beginning, the shootings were abruptly interrupted during the production of the 7th episode, which was never completed, leading to the series cancellation.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2000-11-20
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Kiss the Girls
Overview: A director of a travel agency goes with her niece to Greece for holidays and business, there they meet a Greek company of men trying to "catch the good".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-25
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Dangerous game
Overview: During his summer vacation in Mytilene, a young and lonely small-time clerk, Kostas, becomes bewitched by a femme fatale, Anna Parisi, a thirty-five-year-old German woman married to a wealthy local businessman.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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One Girl For Two Men
Overview: Kimon and Aris are brothers, still they are completely different characters. Kimon, the eldest one, is a serious, conceivable, and stubbornly man who refuses to marry. In opposite, Aris is an open-minded, lively and austere man. Their older sister Polyxeni is trying to bring them closer. Aris wants to meet his girlfriend, Myrto to his brother, but he fears that he will reject her because she is a singer so he convinces him to recruit her as his secretary by concealing her real identity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-10-21
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The Decline
Overview: A weak before her lady-killer lover, a blond diva breaks up with the arrogant libertine to be with a kind friend. His ego demands appeasement, but the lethal revolver in her hand thirsts for retribution. Who is to blame for her downfall?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-12-02
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Stefania
Overview: 18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a thick iron door, two in each bed. Meals and work is carried out in other sections of the building, separated by iron bars. A young doctor shall investigate the newcomer. When they meet, they immediately recognize each other. It is Giorgos, the doctor that treated Stefania's mother a couple of years ago, and then had a little flirt with Stefania. He has been thinking of her ever since. He immediately falls in love with her, and wants to help her. Stefania is thinking about any possibility to get out from the prison. She flirts with the ugly yard guard Armandos, and with the truck driver coming with foodstuff, but in vain...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-03-20
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Without Identity
Overview: Giannis (Alekos Alexandrakis) pretends to be the lost son of the Mavroleontos family. The mother (Vaso Metaxa) is happy with the return of her son. Her daughter Liana (Zoe Laskari) is also happy, and Giannis falls in love with her. Liana’s cousin Zanet (Mary Chronopoulou) tries to kill Liana so that she can claim the family fortune, but in the end she injures Giannis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-06-12
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Nomos 4000
Overview: Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-05-05
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The Blue Beads from Greece
Overview: A feud develops between a taverna with bouzoukia and a club next door that plays modern music.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-02-20
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Face to Face with Death
Overview: Seven months after the declaration of the Greco-Italian War, a volunteer nurse and a small group of confidants who take part in the Resistance, face incarceration and horrible tortures, as they refuse to betray their country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-03-23
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Teddy Boy My Love
Overview: The son of a merchant is trying to convince his father to sell his shop so he can buy the car he wants. But he will find his master in the face of a girl who has decided to help his father live a better life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-12-13
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Olga My Love
Overview: Olga, a young girl from a wealthy family, knows and falls in love with Peter, a poor civil engineer who has just taken his degree and with honors. The future of the young do not seem bright because the job needs capital and appropriate dating to climb the stairs of success. The social gulf that separates them is huge and the reactions of her mother Olga creates another major obstacle in their relationship. Despite the difficulties, however, the two young decide to join their lives and try to build a common course with the only help their love and dreams to create a happy family. The inability But Peter stabilize at a job because of irritable character and economic problem facing will bring very fast the first dark clouds in their relationship and will go through great tribulations love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-02-05
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The Constellation of Virgin
Overview: 3 different story's that a prostitute says to her patrons whe she is asked about her story life
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-12-03
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A Lady In Bouzoukia
Overview: Three brothers watched as pupil their sister and only trust George, their teammate from the football club where they play. George loves her secretly but not admitting to respect the trust
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Dream Lovers
Overview: A popular and honest man, Dimitris (Dimitris Papamichael), who works at the Perama yards, sings at a local tavern in the evenings. One day, his revered brother proposes to break a villa, and to prove to him that these things do not need any special capacity, he accepts the challenge. The noise they do, however, awakens the daughter of the owner, Zoitsa (Zoe Laskari). The two invaders are surprise. Zoitsa, who understands that Dimitris is not a villain, asks her not to hand him over to the police and is listening. Shortly thereafter, the girl visits the owner of the shipyards in which Dimitris works. The two young men are reunited.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1974-12-30
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Egoism
Overview: A spoiled girl, Maria, does not care about anyone but herself and her good-natured. She relates eroticly to her sister's fiancé, Costas, to pay her the debts she has to do with her wasteful life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-12-30
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Marijuana Stop!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-03-01
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Love forever
Overview: A spoiled rich girl falls in love with a poor, good-looking but also talented pianist, rejecting a wealthy suitor from her own class. However, a combination of her parents' pressure and a misunderstanding with her beloved leads her to accept the proposal of a wealthy businessman. At the same time, an accident obliges the young pianist to abandon his piano for quite a long time. And although the young girl stands by him in his time of need, she leaves him the moment he recovers. However, on the night of his first concert, she returns to his side, determined to spend their life together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-03-16
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Tears for Electra
Overview: Intent on hurting herself, a beautiful but desperate daughter crashes her car on the day of her mother's wedding, unfolding a tragic tale of love, deception, and murder behind the closed doors of a wealthy family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-11-07
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Story of a Lifetime
Overview: Targeted for her beauty and pilloried by members of her own village, a poor and orphaned young woman flees from her humble but hostile birthplace to seek refuge in the bosom of the hectic city of Athens. Can love put an end to her ordeals?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Vertigo
Overview: A 19-year-old temptress caught in the intoxicating vertigo of passion ends up in prison. Her secret diary tells her side of the story, but unanswered questions arise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-08-14
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Captives of Hate
Overview: Viky, a Greek from Africa, returns in shock to her homeland after the riots in the Congo, where she saw almost all of her family killed before her very eyes. In Athens, the businessman Angelos von Zirach, of German origin, helps her brother avoid financial disaster, but also helps her launch a career as a singer and dancer. Viky falls in love with him and agrees to marry him, inviting the wrath of his secretary and lover Tzina, who, in order to get even with him, reveals to Vicky that Angelos' ships don't transport food, medicine and indispensable articles to Africa, but guns, ammunition and even mercenaries. Viky is shocked. She turns in von Zirach to the police and leaves. After some years, she returns to him with their son Freiderikos, when von Zirach has donated his fortune to the orphans of Biafra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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Front Page Woman
Overview: What was this woman? The tragic victim of the SS or the female executioner of the Hitler's camps? What was it all about? A satan or an angel? Why, in peacetime, the old nightmares come back and drift into this shocking adventure of love, hatred and action with an unexpected ending?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Naked On The Street
Overview: Against the backdrop of social prejudice, a torrid affair between a rich heiress and a proud worker starts to bloom, against all odds. Are the star-crossed lovers meant to be together? Is there a future when you're naked in the street?
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-03-13
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The Republic
Overview: A photojournalist and surveillance expert decides to go up against a system of political corruption and corporate intrigue after witnessing the murder of his brother.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2015-09-30
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Reverse course
Overview: As a coincidental event unites a publisher and a hospital manager, sinister revelations entangle the couple with the aspiration of an editor-in-chief. Will he unearth the truth? After all, almost everybody has a skeleton in the closet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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