Arto Apartian
Also Known As: Άρτο Απαρτιάν, Αρτό Απαρτιάν
Biography: Arto Apartian was born on November 14, 1956 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for O giteftis (2007), Erastes sti mihani tou hronou (1990) and To athoo soma (1997). He died on June 30, 2010 in Athens, Greece.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Adult: No
Birthday: November 14, 1956
Age: 68 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 30, 2010
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Hostage
Overview: Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers hostage and demands a ransom of half and million euro, and safe passage to his homeland of Albania. Surrounded by police, the bus trundles towards the Albanian border and the tension mounts until the final harrowing conclusion.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2005-03-04
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The Bewitched
Overview: Andreas, a 45-year-old widower and architect, tells the coroner of events leading to his young daughter's death.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-11-01
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Το κολιέ
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-05
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Small Crime
Overview: Leonidas, a young, ambitious police officer, is assigned to a remote island in the Aegean Sea. He dreams of solving important crimes, but there are few to be found in the sleepy beach community where he is left to such menial chores. Each day at the town café, Leonidas and the other locals watch the beautiful Angeliki, the small islands most famous daughter, as she hosts a popular talk show on national TV. These daily rituals are shattered when the island experiences what appears to be an actual crime-the island drunk, Zacharias, is found dead at the base of a cliff. Eager to do some sleuthing, Leonidas soon finds clues that tie the victim to Angeliki, who returns to the island and joins the investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2008-11-17
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Medusa
Overview: In this wry retelling of the ancient Medusa myth, strange, clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece. Only Perseus, a leader of a gang of modern Athenian thieves, with a strange childhood, holds the answer to the mystery--and it has something to do with beautiful, long-haired women in black. One night his group breaks into the house of one such creature. Filled with low-key humor and suspense, Medusa unfolds in a simple and tantalizing way
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Horror
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1998-11-15
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Truants
Overview: The story follows the sporadic reunions of six friends during the seven year period of their integration into society. The reunions take place on their ancestral island, the setting of their common past. Every time they return "home" they carry with them the results of their personal choices. They also carry with them the effects of modern Greek society, a society the slowly but surely changes them, weathering their relationships, until they gradually lose contact with each other. The end of this epoch, will find them dispersed, confronting the dawn of an era where the pursuit of individual ambitions reigns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-12-06
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Lovers Beyond Time
Overview: A fantasy film, featuring the weird relationship between attractive Sylvia and Angelos. The girl breaks up with him. Three years later she is married to a doctor and her life is upset by a series of unbelievable events, such as strange assassinations of her friends and her being inexplicably aroused, at the most inappropriate moments and occasions. This mysterious experiences stem from the presence of Angelos, who, having built a time-machine, wanders around in space-time, in order to eliminate those he sees as rivals and to make love to her.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1990-03-24
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Journey to Mytilene
Overview: After 20 years in Paris, an inheritance brings Kostas back to his hometown Mytilini. Thats where he will meet again with a young girl who he firstly met in France, and his relatives bringing back memories of his childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2010-11-18
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Despina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1990-02-14
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Close So Close
Overview: A deep, unfulfilled love within an erotic triangle. A story of trust and betrayal. A story of present-day Athens, of onlookers, of hesitation. Where holding back is normal, no matter how self-destructive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-03-21
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Desert Sky
Overview: The few survivors of a deserted city, sometime in the near future, are left with no water or food but somehow manage to survive. In a hospital, a lonely scientist, Foteini, is helping a patient with amnesia to recover. She also meets an actor named Aias (Ajax) – who often visits his sick sister – and becomes romantically involved with him. Foteini is swept away by love; Aias, however, is unprepared for such strong emotions. Their separation brings Foteini to the house of the amnesiac, and he takes care of her, up to the moment that she discovers a photo of hers among his things. In the meantime, Aias brings his sister back home from the hospital. While it is getting darker, with clouds gathering in the sky, Foteini and Aias wander the city and meet in the rain.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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Witches
Overview: Greek television horror movie from 1988.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1988-02-17
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Bordello
Overview: Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored in the port of Chania in protecting Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Rosa Bonaparte, accompanied by twelve girls off at a deserted beach with all the equipment of a Marseille brothel. Installed in a wing of a huge, ruined former Town Hall, where the officers of the allied fleet meet and entertain in the evenings surrounded by undercover agents, military connectors, and speculators : an East-West mosaic of languages, costumes and intrigue ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-17
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Potlatch
Overview: Arhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming birthday, a self-destructive symphonic composer makes an out of bounds and dangerous bet on himself.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Small Revolts
Overview: A small town in northern Greece: the film begins with Anna’s monolog in a theater rehearsal in a coffee shop. Manos, obsessed with Panselinos (a 13th century Byzantine painter), himself hidden inside a trivial life, watches her. It is the turning point for both of them. Anna, married to an abusive man, is mesmerized by Manos’ paintings and his kindness. They develop a powerful passion
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2009-11-16
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Utopia
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Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2004-11-27
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Farther Right Than the Right
Overview: The secret services of the junta use a resisting captain who is now their prisoner in order to trap some resistance kernels. The conflicting ideological trajectories of people, each representing something specific, are drifting from the whirlpool of history, composing a mosaic of representative heroes of a time.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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Mania
Overview: It is on Ascension Day that Zoe, a brilliant computer analyst, visits the National Park in the center of Athens with her daughter, Katerina. That afternoon in the park, Zoe experiences an overwhelming array of instinctive compulsions and transforms into an ancient Maenad in ecstatic frenzy, even capable of murder. Instincts and animals get loose and panic takes over.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Eden Is West
Overview: Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-11
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Guilt
Overview: The 50-year Cypriot tragedy through the memories of an old man, a former gun dealer at death's door. A nightmare, through his operation, unmasks the reality of his own life and reveals his guilt feeling about his country.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2009-09-22
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The Homecoming
Overview: After 35 years working in a factory in Germany, Ilias returns to his almost deserted village and buys a service station on the main street to Ioannina. He wants to make a new start but soon feels like a foreigner again, this time in his own country. His relationship with Eleni, his younger and still beautiful wife, is going though a serious crisis. Eleni, who married him when she was very young to escape the poverty of village life, now feels she is suffocating. She wants to live while there is still time.Their life changes when Ilias saves Petros, a young Albanian illegal immigrant who comes to Greece seeking a better life, from the border guards and hires him in his shop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2008-04-03
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Toutes les femmes sont des déesses
Overview: A few months pregnant, Valerie is leading the construction of the Athens metro, which will reduce pollution in the Greek capital. However, on the construction site, archaeologists are trying to suspend the work because the subsoil contains archaeological treasures.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-10
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Αθώος ή ένοχος;
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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Signs & Wonders
Overview: Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-09
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