Dora Volanaki
Also Known As: Ντόρα Βολανάκη, Ντορα Βολανακη, Δώρα Βολανάκη, Δωρα Βολανακη
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1915
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 12, 1998
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Voyage to Cythera
Overview: An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1984-04-21
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Varieté
Overview: An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-01-18
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Σας ζητούν στο τηλέφωνο
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1934-12-17
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Treason
Overview: Lieutenant Karl von Stein (Petros Fyssoun) is serving in Greece as an enlightenment officer for the German occupation troops, and lives in the house of Professor Victor Kastriotis (Manos Katrakis) seized by the Germans. There he meets Lisa (Elli Fotiou), a young girl who appears as the professor’s niece, when in fact she is of Jewish descent. The two youths fall in love and are preparing to get married when Karl learns the truth... The film represented Greece at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Prize of the Soviet Peace Committee at the Moscow International Film Festival that same year.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-06-08
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Ulysses' Gaze
Overview: An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-10-12
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Two Turkish Eggs
Overview: Giannis is a subversive young man who rebels against any social institution or authority. Unemployed by conviction, he cohabits with his German friend Ilze, who supports him, helps his arrogant uncle , a fallen aristocrat, with his drug smuggling, and becomes friends with a Pontian Turk, Mustapha. The latter has entered Greece illegally and follows Giannis to Athens, hoping to find his Greek grandmother, who is none other than Giannis' grandmother as well. Mustapha steals the hearty of Ilze, whom he entertains with tales of his exploits, but the uncle turns them over to the police, and so they are truly in a tight squeeze. They get out of doing time, despite it all, and leave for Turkey, but they stray into Albania, where they are arrested and sentenced to manual labor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Honeymoon
Overview: Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in the ocean, naked, as he and Zaharoula are out walking on the beach. Taken up in the spirit of the moment, she joins him among the waves. The results, however, are not what they expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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120 Decibels
Overview: After having an accident Nassos is brought into a hospital where he lies in coma without regaining his consciousness. All his friends visit him and each of them remembers the most important moments of their friendships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Erotic Moments
Overview: An erotic film that is imbued with many influences from Italian realist cinema, and now and then it adopts a Jean-Luc Godard-like style.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-09-08
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The Death of Alexandros
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-09-27
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Τα όπλα μου ρίχνουν λουλούδια
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Olives
Overview: short film that was shown at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in 1964
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-09-22
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A Foolish Love
Overview: The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-11-02
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The Beekeeper
Overview: Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1986-10-23
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