Grigoris Vafias
Also Known As: Γρηγόρης Βαφιάς
Biography: Grigoris Vafias was born on December 31, 1918 in Arta, Greece. He was an actor and writer, known for Sharp as a Needle (1961), High Treason (1971) and Rendez-Vous in Venice (1960). He died on August 9, 2007 in Greece.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Arta, Epirus, Greece
Adult: No
Birthday: December 31, 1918
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 09, 2007
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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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Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927
Overview: A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by Venizelos after the Goudi movement, his dispute with the King over Greece's stance in the First World War, the temporary his withdrawal from politics after his defeat in the 1920 elections and the Asia Minor disaster. A biography of the former Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos and the recreation of his acts and the political and social climate in Greece from 1910 to 1927.
Genres: History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-03-03
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Η οργή του αδικημένου
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Lieutenant Natassa
Overview: The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian war, she met Orestis . With the German invasion, Orestis, who was an officer in the Greek army, left for the Middle East. She followed him and accompanied him back to occupied Greece on a mission. She was arrested, interrogated and tortured and was finally sentenced to execution.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-12-12
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The Dam
Overview: An engineer (Nikos Kourkoulos) oversees as a expert the cracks that have suffered a dam. The rumors that want the dam to collapse and drag people, panic the inhabitants of the surrounding area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-02-01
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The gigolo of Athens
Overview: A zigolo falls victim to a well-intentioned plan that aims to incriminate him for killing a foreign agent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-11-19
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Addio Berlin
Overview: In order to shoot his first film, Alex decides to follow his agent's advice. Carrying his ambitious script, Alex arrives in Athens planning to meet an eccentric producer, but a couple of gangsters confuses him with "the man" they have been waiting from Berlin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1994-11-21
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Papaflessas
Overview: The life and work of the hero of 1821 Papaflessas that during the liberation struggle of the Greeks against the Turks, revolutionizing the elders and the world to declare war!!! Up to the heroic battle Maniaki.... A movie that shows the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks for their homeland and their freedom
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-09-22
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Τελευταία πτήση
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Rendez-vous in Venice
Overview: When she fails to persuade her father to visit her mother in Venice with him, Diana decides to take the ship and secretly follow him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Pavlos Melas
Overview: The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks and Bulgarians. A story stick to the facts for the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks. Pavlos Melas is the symbol of the struggle for the independence of Macedonia in Greece.
Genres: War Action History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-02-04
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Όχι
Overview: In 1940, during the outbreak of Greek-Italian war, Dimitris Nicolaou goes to fight as lieutenant in Greek-Albanian border. After their victory over Italians by epic battles, Dimitris is.....
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-10-27
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Bouboulina
Overview: The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in Spetses and to participate herself, despite her double widowhood. In the struggle for the liberation of Greece, she gives all her property and fighting along with her lads.
Genres: History Adventure War Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Πάμε Για... Καφέ;
Overview: Odysseus and Giblas (Giorgos Pantzas and Stathis Psaltis) come to Athens, hoping to make their lives. They find a room and work at the Aristomenos factory (Grigoris Vafias). When the rumors about the attempted murder of his son Giorgos Pantzas organized the factory, Odysseus, who looks amazing, will take on the role of salvation to deceive the killers. Odysseus, without knowing what is happening, charismatically emphasizes his boss's son and gives benefits to the workers. Soon it is revealed that the very son of the factory was the one who spread the rumors and Odysseus, taking the part of the workers clean, destroying an agreement with Arab entrepreneurs, overcoming his superiors and finally resigning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-06-09
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The Island of the Brave
Overview: An officer in the Greek army arrives in Crete, immediately after the fall in the hands of the Germans. In collaboration with rebels and allies saboteurs involved in sabotage installations of the Germans. The old favorite will ensure some secret documents, which will steal from the German commander, but then betrayal will be revealed and will be led to the firing squad. The young officer would punish will escape in Cairo.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Three Liars
Overview: Liza (Maro Kontou), a famous movie actress, is obliged to marry the man her three uncles choose for her (all played by Nikos Stavridis) so that she can inherit a huge fortune. The young woman promises a film extra (Giorgos Pantzas) her hand in marriage if he manages to convince her uncles that he’s the one they should choose for her. The extra gives his best performance and convinces each of the uncles in turn of his worth as a groom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-11-27
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Τα Παιδιά της Πιάτσας
Overview: Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the guys and jobber of Piraeus, and the strict surveillance of the police, who closed the once in prison. He will try to sell the alleged Byzantine icons that makes a fellow prisoner, but will be arrested. It will be released as there were images of value, and will be informed that the mother of the same (Mary Metaxa) alerted the police to remove him from the unlawful activity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1979-06-13
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Love and Betrayal
Overview: Agents of German espionage approach the wife of the Greek officer Alexis Mourouzis, and with various tricks they convince her to cooperate with them. She begins to systematically betray her homeland and convey vital information to the enemy, without fully understanding what exactly she is doing. One night, Lieutenant Colonel Mourouzis catches her photographing some secret documents and delivers her to the judge. The truth is revealed, and against her will, the traitor agrees to help her countrymen capture the German spies.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-04-25
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Αδυναμίες
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Φουκαράδες και λεφτάδες
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-02-09
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A Law-Abiding Citizen
Overview: A young man who grew up beneath the heavy shade of autocratic and avaricious mother, son Gregory, has lost initiative and the minimum footprint. The servility of his mother against his boss, which facilitates the solicitations of the latter to his sister, infuriates him. The fiancée, Soula, can not understand his sexual desires and his girlfriend, Julia, the only one that loves him really forced to abandon him. Gregory wonder with all this and rebels, but his rebellion brings him to the brink of madness. When you finally meet, forced to follow the commands of the mother and uncle ultraconservative so he marries the woman who suggest those.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1974-12-09
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Εσχάτη Προδοσία
Overview: An officer in his secret mission to India is injured by foreign agents. He returns to Greece but must be considered dead by his wife for the needs of the service, since he must discover who betrays the state secrets.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-11-22
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