Elena Topalidou
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Elena Topalidou was born in Athens. She studied dance at the State School of Orchestral Art and piano at the National Conservatory of Athens. As a dancer she was a key member of the OKTANA dance theater from 1993 to 2005 and participated in all its productions. She also collaborated with Dimitris Papaioannou and the Ground Team, the National Theatre, the State Theater of Northern Greece, the Rootless root group, etc. As an actor, she collaborated with the National Theatre, KTHBE, the Athens Festival, the House of Letters and Arts, etc. directed by Michael Marmarinou, Nikos Karathanos, Lefteris Vogiatzis, Lydias Koniordou, Kostantin Bogomolov, Akylla Karazisi, etc. In the cinema, she participated in Greek short and feature films. In 1999, she was awarded the prize for the best female performance for the performance The Lady with the Camellias, choreographed by Kostantinos Rigos. In 2020, she won the first female performance award for the short film Bella by Thelgia Petrakis. In 2022, she received the first female performance award at the Iris Awards of the Cinema Academy for the film Magnetic Fields by George Gousis. She has been teaching classical ballet at the National Opera School since 2011.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 22, 1975
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Gender: Female
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Soul Food
Overview: Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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Magnetic Fields
Overview: Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2022-05-19
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Moon, 66 Questions
Overview: Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and she must return home to Athens to care for him. Resentful of the tasking as she grew up estranged from her father, she becomes reacquainted with him over one emotional summer, learning the secret as to why their relationship was stifled when she finds out Jacob, Paris' friend, who's been always around from her childhood, was actually her dad's lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2022-01-25
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Firebug
Overview: A young dad returns to his childhood home to round off a conversation that never began with his deceased father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-04
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Aerolin
Overview: Sandy is a drama school graduate and has asthma. Tonight she will be performing at the theatre. Before that, she has to teach a yoga class, work as a clown and go to an audition. In this equation, she somehow has to try and fit in Spiros, her boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2023-09-04
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The Rape of Chloe
Overview: This short film adapted from the ballet "Daphnis and Chloe". The pirates chasing Chloe, the capture and rape. The Bryaxis, their leader, obliges to dance for him. The syringe comes to free her…forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-09-11
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Fonissa
Overview: It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2023-11-30
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Dying in Athens
Overview: Andreas, an Art History Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, is involved both with a sexy intellectual French-Greek woman and a young student of his despite being in love with his beautiful wife. When he finds out he has leukemia and only a few months to live, he decides to keep it a secret but also to talk to the women in his life about his infidelity.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2006-11-02
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Arcadia
Overview: Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in a windy autumn, matching the less-than-pleasant occasion: Yannis has been called to identify the victim of a tragic accident at the hospital of the small town. When the local policeman informs them that the victim’s vehicle had plunged over the parapet of a stone bridge and leads them to the morgue, Katerina sees her worst suspicions confirmed. Together with Yannis, but also on her own nightly excursions to a mysterious, rustic beach bar called Arcadia, they begin to put the pieces of the puzzle together, revealing a haunting story of love, loss, acceptance and letting go.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2024-02-18
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Novak
Overview: An ageing Serbian neuroscientist lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded as a paranoid schizophrenic for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. But when, decades later, he is rediscovered by a group of young dreamers who are trying to change the world through his ideas, he decides to quit his medication and join them in their scientific commune, risking his sanity in pursuit of a higher goal.
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Original Language: el
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Kyuka: Before Summer's End
Overview: Summertime. A family of three, a single father, Babis, and his twin children on the verge of adulthood, Konstantinos and Elsa, sail to the island of Poros on the family boat for their holidays. In the midst of swimming, sunbathing and making new friends, Konstantinos and Elsa meet unbeknownst to them, their birth mother Anna who abandoned them when they were babies. This encounter will stir up long-held feelings of resentment in Babis, resulting in a sun-kissed, bittersweet coming-of-age journey for everyone involved.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-14
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Highway of a Broken Heart
Overview: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, on an underlit stretch of highway, Mary will come face to face with the man who broke her heart and will do everything she can to win him back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2023-09-26
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The Woman Is... A Tough Person
Overview: Johnny Maniatis (Anthony Kafetzopoulos) is a successful advertiser and ... womanizer. Georgia (Fay Kokkinopoulou), currently the woman of his life, wants urgently to make a child. His mother, Aspasia (Jenny Roussea) is absent. His faithful secretary, Herse (Yota Festa) is tired of the irresponsible behavior, but tries to help him. His daughter Artemis (Eleni Apostolopoulos) is arrested aain for stealing the eve of her trial, while the former wife Martha (Mania Papadimitriou) is throwing him all the blame ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-19
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Interruption
Overview: A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2016-01-28
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Helga Is in Lund
Overview: A woman, her doctor, a piano student, a man, his wife and a cat. What connects these people? What separates them? Who is Helga? Where is Lund?
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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Deconstructing Interruption
Overview: The film captures the way Yorgos Zois worked with his actors during the shooting of the film Interuption, as well as the atmosphere that evoked on the filming set.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-17
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The Forest
Overview: A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again?
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2018-08-14
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Birds (Or How to Be One)
Overview: Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2020-01-28
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Bella
Overview: Just before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, at the end of the Cold War. Everything is changing in front of Anthi’s eyes and Christos seems to be changing too. Bella is the story of a moment in time recreated as if in a feverish dream where fiction and documentary overlap perfectly, creating a striking and emotional cinematographic universe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2020-04-17
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Ecdysis
Overview: In a near-future world ravaged by environmental disaster and a deadly virus, Lina carries her infected teenage son, Aris, to a retired doctor hoping he will be able to cure him. But Aris’s infection proves extremely aggressive and Lina’s love for her son is tested as she watches him transforming into a different being.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Lula LeBlanc
Overview: 26th of September 1999. Alekos is dead. His teenage granddaughter, Margarita, refuses to attend his funeral and takes advantage of her parents’ absence to throw a small party at home. Three days earlier, unaware that this would be his last night, Alekos attends a reunion of old friends to celebrate the birthday of Lula, his first love, who now suffers from dementia.
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 2024-11-03
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SIX
Overview: Α rhythmic gymnastics champion lives far from her glorious past crushed by everyday life. Ιn her dreams all her nightmares return in the form of a waterfall that calls her forward.
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 2024-07-10
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