Greek films of the 1960s
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 in the 1960s.

1960s

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1960
1960 in film
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...

Antio zoi
(Αντίο Ζωή)
Orestis Laskos  Giorgos Foundas, Eleni Hajiargyri, Labros Konstadaras
Labros Konstadaras
Labros Konstadaras was a Greek film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1940 and 1981. He was born and died in Athens.-Selected filmography:* Madame X * Ekeines Kai Ego...

 
Romantic drama IMDb
Our Last Spring
Our Last Spring
Our Last Spring is a 1960 Greek drama film directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Alexandros Mamatis - Alekos* Jenny Russell - Monika* Nikiforos Naneris - Dimitris...

Mihalis Kakogiannis  Entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival
10th Berlin International Film Festival
The 10th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1960.-Jury:* Harold Lloyd * Georges Auric* Henry Reed* Sohrab Modi* Floris Luigi Ammannati* Hidemi Ima* Joaquín de Entrambasaguas* Frank Wisbar...

Kitrina gantia, Ta
Ta kitrina gantia
Ta Kitrina Gantia is a 1960 Greek comedy film made by Finos Films. It was directed by Giorgos Tzavelas and stars Nikos Stavridis, Mimis Fotopoulos, Maro Kontou and Martha Vourtsi. It had an idea of a pathologic husbandly jealousy.-Plot:Orestis is a pathologic jealous husband and always appeared...


(Τα Κίτρινα Γάντια)
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He wrote his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva...

 
Nikos Stavridis, Mimis Fotopoulos
Mimis Fotopoulos
Dimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos was a Greek actor, writer, poet and academic....

, Maro Kontou, Pantelis Zervos
Pantelis Zervos
-Biography:Zervos was born in Loutraki near Corinth in Perachora. He attended the Art Theatre School with Karolos Koun . He entered the theatrical scene from 1933 and participated with the greatest stars of the time as distinction in classic and main roles, even in modern Greek civics.His most...

 
Comedy IMDb
Madalena
Madalena (film)
Madalena is a 1960 Greek comedy film directed by Dinos Dimopoulos. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Aliki Vougiouklaki - Madalena* Dimitris Papamichael - Labis* Pantelis Zervos - Preast...


(Μανταλένα)
Dinos Dimopoulos
Dinos Dimopoulos
Dinos Dimopoulos was a Greek film director and screenwriter. He directed 47 films between 1953 and 1993.His 1959 film Astero was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival...

 
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki was a Greek actress. She is considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of Greek cinema.-Biography:...

, Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...

, Pantelis Zervos
Pantelis Zervos
-Biography:Zervos was born in Loutraki near Corinth in Perachora. He attended the Art Theatre School with Karolos Koun . He entered the theatrical scene from 1933 and participated with the greatest stars of the time as distinction in classic and main roles, even in modern Greek civics.His most...

 
Musical comedy 3 wins & entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival
1961 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Jean Giono *Sergei Yutkevich *Pedro Armendáriz *Luigi Chiarini *Claude Mauriac *Edouard Molinaro *Jean Paulhan *Raoul Ploquin...

 - IMDb
Never on Sunday
Never on Sunday
Never on Sunday is a 1960 Greek black-and-white film which tells the story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist from Middletown, Connecticut — a classical scholar enamored with all things Greek. Ilya is a character close to the...


(Pote Tin Kyriaki, Ποτέ την Κυριακή)
Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin
Julius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:...

 
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...

, Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin
Julius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:...

 
Comedy drama Won Oscar, +2 wins, +7 nominations IMDb Entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival
1960 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Georges Simenon *Marc Allégret *Louis Chauvet *Diego Fabbri *Hidemi Ima *Grigori Kozintsev *Maurice Leroux *Max Lippmann *Henry Miller...

1961
1961 in film
The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:* Atlantis, the Lost ContinentB...

Antigone
Antigone (film)
Antigone is a 1961 Greek film adaptation of the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. It stars Irene Papas in the title role.The film follows the story of the play closely but cuts the chorus...


(Αντιγόνη)
Yorgos Javellas  Irene Papas
Irene Papas
Irene Papas is a Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over seventy films in a career spanning more than fifty years.-Life:...

, Manos Katrakis
Manos Katrakis
Manos Katrakis was a Greek actor of theater and film.-Biography:Born in Kastelli, Crete, Greece, he was the youngest of five children of Haralambos Katrakis and Irini Katraki. When Manos was 10 years old, his family moved from Crete to Athens, where his father searched for work...

 
Drama Entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival
11th Berlin International Film Festival
The 11th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 23 to July 4, 1961.-Jury:* James Quinn * France Roche* Marc Turfkruyer* Satyajit Ray* Gian Luigi Rondi* Hirosugu Ozaki* Nicholas Ray* Falk Harnack* Hans Schaarwächter...

Exo oi kleftes
Exo oi kleftes
Exo oi kleftes is a 1961 Greek comedy film directed by Kostas Andritsos and stars Orestis Makris, Dionysis Papayiannopoulos, Dimitris Nikolaidis, Martha Karagianni, Andreas Douzos, Koulis Stoligas, etc...


(Έξω οι κλέφτες)
Kostas Andritsos
Kostas Andritsos
Kostas Andritsos is a Greek film director and writer.Films directed include AERA! AERA! AERA! .- External links :...

 
Orestis Makris
Orestis Makris
Orestis Makris was a Greek actor and tenor.He graduated from the Greek Odeum of Athens and first entered the scene as a tenor in the troupe of Rosalia Nika in 1925. He later joined the Papaioannou troupe, before moving to more humoristic roles. Makris excelled in the portrayal of folk characters,...

, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos was one of the most talented and loved actors in Greece. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece and made his stage debut in 1938, appearing as the Knight in William Shakespeare’s King Lear...

, Koulis Stoligkas
Koulis Stoligkas
Koulis Stoligkas or Stoligas was a Greek actor. He was born in Drama and died on February 25, 1984 in Athens. He was one of the most loved stars in the Greek cinema and played in several movies including Exo oi kleftes...

 
Comedy IMDb
Hamena Oneira
(Χαμένα Όνειρα)
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He wrote his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva...

 
Adigoni Valakou, Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...

 
Drama IMDb
O Katiforos
The Downhill
The Downhill is a 1961 Greek drama film made by Finos Films. It was directed by Giannis Dalianidis and starring Zoi Laskari, Nikos Kourkoulos, Vangelis Voulgaridis and Pantelis Zervos....


(Ο Κατήφορος)
Yannis Dalianidis Zoe Laskari
Zoe Laskari
Zoe Laskari , is a Greek film and theatre actress, one of the most popular in Greece.-Life:Zoe Laskari was born Zoe Kouroukli in Thessaloniki, from a middle class family which had a long tradition of service to the Hellenic Army. At an early age she lost both her parents and was raised by her...

, Nikos Kourkoulos
Nikos Kourkoulos
Nikos Kourkoulos was a highly respected Greek theatrical and film performer, one of the most talented and recognizable actors in Greece of modern times...

, Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas is a famous Greek actor, director and writer.-Biography:Voutsas was born in Thessaloniki, in 1931. He studied drama at the Drama School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his stage and screen debut in 1953...

, Pantelis Zervos
Pantelis Zervos
-Biography:Zervos was born in Loutraki near Corinth in Perachora. He attended the Art Theatre School with Karolos Koun . He entered the theatrical scene from 1933 and participated with the greatest stars of the time as distinction in classic and main roles, even in modern Greek civics.His most...

 
Drama IMDb
1962
1962 in film
The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....

Electra
(Ηλέκτρα)
Michael Cacoyannis  Irene Papas
Irene Papas
Irene Papas is a Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over seventy films in a career spanning more than fifty years.-Life:...

, Yannis Fertis
Drama Nominated for Oscar, +2 wins and entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
1962 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Tetsuro Furukaki *Henry Deutschmeister *Sophie Desmarets *Jean Dutourd *Mel Ferrer *Romain Gary *Jerzy Kawalerowicz *Ernst Krüger...

. - IMDb
Otan leipei i gata
Otan leipei i gata
Otan leipei i gata is a 1962 Greek comedy film made by Finos Films. It was directed by Alekos Sakellarios and stars Vasilis Avlonitis, Rena Vlachopoulou and Niki Linardou.-Plot:...


Όταν λείπει η γάτα
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He wrote his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva...

 
Vasilis Avlonitis
Vasilis Avlonitis
Vasilis Avlonitis was one of the most famous old-school Greek comedians. He performed in numerous films and stage productions in the mid to late 1900s....

, Rena Vlahopoulou
Rena Vlahopoulou
Irene "Rena" Vlachopoulou was a famous Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu....

, Nikos Rizos
Nikos Rizos
Nikos Rizos was a Greek actor. He took part in many Greek comedies in cinema. He married Elsa Rizou and raised a son.-Career:He began his career with the classic film Anthropoi, anthropoiPeople, People in 1948 at the Metropolitan Theatre, made his own company in 1959 which he co-ran from 1961 as...

, Marika Krevata
Marika Krevata
Marika Krevata of Stamatiou was a Greek actress of theatre and film.-Biography:Marika was the daughter of Stamatis Krevatas and Sofias . She was born in Athens in 1910. Krevata lost her father and her little sister Thaleia when she was 2...

, Giorgos Gavriilidis
Giorgos Gavriilidis
Giorgos Gavriilidis was a Greek actor.He was the husband of Marika Krevata...

 
Comedy IMDb
Phaedra
Phaedra (film)
Phaedra was a 1962 motion picture directed by Jules Dassin as a vehicle for his wife Melina Mercouri, after her world-wide hit Never on Sunday.The film was the fourth collaboration between Dassin and Mercouri, who took the title role...


Φαίδρα
Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin
Julius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:...

 
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...

, Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins was an American actor, best known for his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion and as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho , and its three sequels.-Early life:...

 
Drama Nominated for Oscar, +2 nom.
French-Greek-USA co-production IMDb
1963
1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....

Kati na kaiei (Κάτι να καίει) Yannis Dalianidis Dinos Illiopoulos, Rena Vlahopoulou
Rena Vlahopoulou
Irene "Rena" Vlachopoulou was a famous Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu....

, Elena Nathanael, Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas is a famous Greek actor, director and writer.-Biography:Voutsas was born in Thessaloniki, in 1931. He studied drama at the Drama School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his stage and screen debut in 1953...

 
Musical comedy IMDb
Merikoi to protimoun kryo
Merikoi to protimoun kryo
Merikoi to protimoun kryo translations: Some Like it Cold is a 1963 Greek comedy film directed by Giannis Dalianidis. Lakis , Rena , Eva and Mary are four cousins that were secretly with standards with Lela , Thodoros , Giorgis and Kleopa...

(Μερικοί το προτιμούν κρύο)
Yannis Dalianidis Dinos Illiopoulos, Zoe Laskari
Zoe Laskari
Zoe Laskari , is a Greek film and theatre actress, one of the most popular in Greece.-Life:Zoe Laskari was born Zoe Kouroukli in Thessaloniki, from a middle class family which had a long tradition of service to the Hellenic Army. At an early age she lost both her parents and was raised by her...

, Rena Vlahopoulou
Rena Vlahopoulou
Irene "Rena" Vlachopoulou was a famous Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu....

, Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas is a famous Greek actor, director and writer.-Biography:Voutsas was born in Thessaloniki, in 1931. He studied drama at the Drama School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his stage and screen debut in 1953...

, Joly Garbi
Joly Garbi
Joly Garbi was a Greek actress. She was the wife of the actor Thodoros Moridis for 60 years. She was born in 1913 and died in December 2002. After his death, she became famous in MME and 10 days later, she died lonely. She was buried in Marathon with Moridi who was loved in her later years and...

, Giannis Vogiatzis
Giannis Vogiatzis
-Biography:Vogiatzis Lalakis was born in Aitoliko in Etoloakarnania in 1926. He studied at the Dramatic School at the Royal Theatre and for one space at the Industrial Degree...

 
Musical comedy IMDb
Mikres Aphrodites
(Young Aphrodites, Μικρές Αφροδίτες)
Nikos Koundouros
Nikos Koundouros
Nikos Koundouros , is a Greek film director, born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete in 1926.He studied painting and sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and was later exiled because of his political beliefs to the Makronissos island. At the age of 28 he decided to follow a career in cinematography...

 
Takis Emmanuel, Eleni Prokopiou Drama Koundourous won the Silver Bear for Best Director
Silver Bear for Best Director
The Silver Bear for Best Director is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for best achievement in direction.-Awards:-Repeated winners:*Mario Monicelli *Satyajit Ray *Carlos Saura -External links:*...

 at Berlin
13th Berlin International Film Festival
The 13th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1963.-Jury:* Wendy Toye * Harry R. Sokal* Fernando Ayala* Jean-Pierre Melville* B. R...

Osa kryvei i nychta
Osa kryvei i nychta
Osa kryvei i nychta is a 1964 Greek theatrical comedy film directed by Stelios Zografakis....


(Όσα κρύβει η νύχτα)
Stelis Zografakis Petros Fyssoun, Martha Vourtsi, Dionyssis Papayannopoulos
Dionyssis Papayannopoulos
Dionyssis Papagiannopoulos was a Greek actorHe was born in Diakopto in the northeastern part of the Achaea prefecture in 1912. He studied in Athens at the dramatic school of the national theatre. For the first time, his emphasis in the stage in which he did roles of the knight of King Lear...

, Christos Tsaganeas
Christos Tsaganeas
Hristos Tsaganeas was a Greek actor and a cinematographer.-Biography:Tsaganeas was born in Brăila, Romania on July 2, 1906 and died on July 2, 1976. He starred in several movies, his most famous role being the college headmaster in To xylo vgike ap' ton paradeiso...

, Nitsa Tsaganea
Nitsa Tsaganea
Eleni Tsaganea was a Greek actress of theatre and film.-Biography:Tsaganea was born in 1899. She was the second wife of actor Hristos Tsaganeas. In her famous movies were Enas iroas me pantoufles and Oi Germanoi xanarhonte. She was raised poor and her accommodation rent was paid by Dimitris Horn...

 
Drama IMDb
Red Lanterns, The
The Red Lanterns
The Red Lanterns is a 1963 Greek drama film directed by Vasilis Georgiadis and based on a play by Alekos Galanos. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival...

(Ta Kokkina fanaria, Τα Κόκκινα Φανάρια)
Vassilis Georgiadis Tzeni Karezi
Tzeni Karezi
Tzeni Karezi was a Greek film and theatre actress. She was considered one of the most popular and successful actresses of the cinema of Greece.-Early life:...

, Mary Chronopoulou, Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...

, Manos Katrakis
Manos Katrakis
Manos Katrakis was a Greek actor of theater and film.-Biography:Born in Kastelli, Crete, Greece, he was the youngest of five children of Haralambos Katrakis and Irini Katraki. When Manos was 10 years old, his family moved from Crete to Athens, where his father searched for work...

 
Drama Nominated for Oscar and entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival
1964 Cannes Film Festival
The 17th Cannes Film Festival was held from 29 April to 14 May 1964. The Palme d’Or is renamed 'Grand Prix International du Festival', the name that will be used until 1975.-Jury:*Fritz Lang *Charles Boyer...

Glory Sky
Glory Sky
Glory Sky is a 1962 Greek war film directed by Takis Kanellopoulos. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Aimilia Pitta - Sofia* Faidon Georgitsis - Stratos* Takis Emmanuel - Giagos* Eleni Zafeiriou* Niki Triantafillidi - Anthoula...

Takis Kanellopoulos
Takis Kanellopoulos (director)
Takis Kanellopoulos was a Greek film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1960 and 1980.-Filmography:* Sonia * Romantiko simeioma * To hroniko mias Kyriakis...

 
Entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival
1963 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Armand Salacrou *Rouben Mamoulian *Jacqueline Audry *Wilfrid Baumgartner *François Chavane *Jean De Baroncelli *Robert Hossein...

1964
1964 in film
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released....

Doloma, To
(Το δόλωμα)
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He wrote his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva...

 
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki was a Greek actress. She is considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of Greek cinema.-Biography:...

, Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis was a famous Greek actor. He was known for his theatrical work as well as work in film and television. He died of lung cancer....

 
Romantic comedy IMDb
Eglima sta paraskinia
Egklima sta paraskinia
Egklima sta paraskinia is a 1960 Greek theatrical comedy film starring Dinos Alekos Alexandrakis, Maro Kontou, Hristos Tsaganeas, Titos Vandias, Aliki Georgouli, Georges Sarri and Dimos Starenios...


(Έγκλημα στα παρασκήνια)
Dinos Katsouridis Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis was a famous Greek actor. He was known for his theatrical work as well as work in film and television. He died of lung cancer....

, Maro Kontou, Christos Tsaganeas
Christos Tsaganeas
Hristos Tsaganeas was a Greek actor and a cinematographer.-Biography:Tsaganeas was born in Brăila, Romania on July 2, 1906 and died on July 2, 1976. He starred in several movies, his most famous role being the college headmaster in To xylo vgike ap' ton paradeiso...

, Zorz Sarri, Lavrentis Dianellos
Lavrentis Dianellos
Lavrentis Dianellos was a Greek actor. From 1948 to 1975, he appeared in 200 films, leading one reviewer to call him "ubiquitous."-External links:**...

, Sapfo Notara
Sapfo Notara
Sapfo Notara, was a Greek actress, known for supporting capabilities in acting. In Greek movies, she acted in comedies as an aunt or a housewife. Notara had a radio programme called I Kiria Kiriaki. One of her last theatre appearances was in the play Pornography .Notara never married...

 
Detective IMDb
Filos mou o Lefterakis, O
O filos mou o Lefterakis
O filos mou o Lefterakis is a 1964 Greek theatrical comedy film starring Dinos Iliopoulos, Kostas Voutsas and Maro Kontou.-Plot:...


(Ο φίλος μου ο Λευτεράκης)
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He wrote his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva...

 
Dinos Iliopoulos, Maro Kontou, Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas is a famous Greek actor, director and writer.-Biography:Voutsas was born in Thessaloniki, in 1931. He studied drama at the Drama School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his stage and screen debut in 1953...

, Christos Tsaganeas
Christos Tsaganeas
Hristos Tsaganeas was a Greek actor and a cinematographer.-Biography:Tsaganeas was born in Brăila, Romania on July 2, 1906 and died on July 2, 1976. He starred in several movies, his most famous role being the college headmaster in To xylo vgike ap' ton paradeiso...

, Giorgos Konstadinou
Giorgos Konstadinou
Giorgos Konstadinou, born October 27, 1934 in Athens is a popular Greek actor, writer, and director. His career was boosted after the 'profiterole' scene in the movie Ktipokardia sto thranio and reached its pinnacle with the comedy film The... Kopanoi in the 1980s...

 
Comedy IMDb
Soferina, I
I Soferina
I soferina is a 1964 Greek theatrical comedy film directed by Giorgos Roussos, The Last Joke...


(Η Σωφερίνα)
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He wrote his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva...

 
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki was a Greek actress. She is considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of Greek cinema.-Biography:...

, Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis was a famous Greek actor. He was known for his theatrical work as well as work in film and television. He died of lung cancer....

, Maro Kontou, Vasilis Avlonitis
Vasilis Avlonitis
Vasilis Avlonitis was one of the most famous old-school Greek comedians. He performed in numerous films and stage productions in the mid to late 1900s....

, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos was one of the most talented and loved actors in Greece. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece and made his stage debut in 1938, appearing as the Knight in William Shakespeare’s King Lear...

 
Comedy IMDb
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek is a 1964 film based on the novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. The film was directed by Cypriot Michael Cacoyannis and the title character was played by Anthony Quinn...


(Αλέξης Ζορμπάς)
Michael Cacoyannis  Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...

, Alan Bates
Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE was an English actor, who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he demonstrated his versatility in films ranging from the popular children’s story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving...

 
Drama English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

; won 3 Oscars, +2 wins, +16 nom IMDb
Treason
(Προδοσία)
Kostas Manoussakis
Kostas Manoussakis
Kostas Manoussakis was a Greek film director and screenwriter. His 1964 film Treason was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and his 1966 film The Fear was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Treason * The Fear -External links:...

 
Entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival
1965 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*André Maurois *Olivia de Havilland *Goffredo Lombardo *Max Aub *Michel Aubriant *Rex Harrison *François Reichenbach...

1965
1965 in film
The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...

Moderna stahtopouta
(Μοντέρνα Σταχτοπούτα)
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He wrote his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva...

 
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki was a Greek actress. She is considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of Greek cinema.-Biography:...

, Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...

 
Romantic comedy IMDb
Teddy boy agapi mou
Teddy boy agapi mou
Teddy Boy agapi mou is a 1965 Greek comedy film directed by Alekos Sakellarios.-Plot:Zoi Laskari and Kostas Voutsas which were characters that fell in love, even though they encountered their relatives in which they were widows that had a bond.-Cast:*Zoe Laskari ......


(Τέντυ μπόι αγάπη μου)
Giannis Dalianidis
Giannis Dalianidis
Giannis Dalianidis was a Greek director.His first film was Mousitsa, released in 1959, which was followed by a series of musicals. Between 1974 and 1981, he produced the television series Luna Park. In 2002, he was dubbed a "national film hero" at the International Thessaloniki Film...

 
Zoe Laskari
Zoe Laskari
Zoe Laskari , is a Greek film and theatre actress, one of the most popular in Greece.-Life:Zoe Laskari was born Zoe Kouroukli in Thessaloniki, from a middle class family which had a long tradition of service to the Hellenic Army. At an early age she lost both her parents and was raised by her...

, Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas is a famous Greek actor, director and writer.-Biography:Voutsas was born in Thessaloniki, in 1931. He studied drama at the Drama School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his stage and screen debut in 1953...

 
Comedy IMDb
1966
1966 in film
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Animation legend Walter Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, died in 15 December 1966 of acute circulatory collapse following a diagnosis of, and surgery for, lung cancer...

Anthropos yia oles tis doulies
Anthropos yia oles tis doulies
Anthropos yia oles tis doulies is a 1966 Greek film directed by Giorgos Konstantinou, written by Giorgos Konstantinou and Hristos Kyriakos and a production of Roussopuloi Company.-Plot:...


(Άνθρωπος για όλες τις δουλειές)
Giorgos Konstadinou
Giorgos Konstadinou
Giorgos Konstadinou, born October 27, 1934 in Athens is a popular Greek actor, writer, and director. His career was boosted after the 'profiterole' scene in the movie Ktipokardia sto thranio and reached its pinnacle with the comedy film The... Kopanoi in the 1980s...

 
Giorgos Konstadinou, Giannis Mihalopoulos
Giannis Mihalopoulos
Giannis Mihalopoulos is a Greek actor.-Biography:Mihalopoulos was born in Athens in 1927. He mostly acted in supporting roles. He has appeared in many movies, his most famous being Ah afti i yineka mou, and Anthropos yia oles tis doulies...

 
Comedy IMDb
Homa vaftike kokkino, To
(Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο)
Vasilis Georgiadis  Nikos Kourkoulos
Nikos Kourkoulos
Nikos Kourkoulos was a highly respected Greek theatrical and film performer, one of the most talented and recognizable actors in Greece of modern times...

, Mairi Hronopoulou, Giannis Voglis
Drama/Action IMDb
Kyries tis avlis, Oi
(Οι κυρίες της αυλής)
Dinos Dimopoulos Dinos Illiopoulos, Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis was a famous Greek actor. He was known for his theatrical work as well as work in film and television. He died of lung cancer....

 
Musical comedy Top IMDb ratings - IMDb
The Fear Kostas Manoussakis
Kostas Manoussakis
Kostas Manoussakis was a Greek film director and screenwriter. His 1964 film Treason was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and his 1966 film The Fear was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Treason * The Fear -External links:...

 
Entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival
16th Berlin International Film Festival
The 16th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 24 to July 5, 1966.-Jury:* Pierre Braunberger * Franz Seitz* Emilio Villalba Welsh* Khwaja Ahmad Abbas* Pier Paolo Pasolini* Lars Forssell* Hollis Alpert...

1967
1967 in film
The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film.-Events:* December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television....

Ah! Afti i gynaika mou
Oh! That Wife of Mine
Oh! That Wife of Mine is a 1967 Greek film based on a theatrical work and was directed by Nikos Tsiforos and Polyvios Vassiliadis.-Plot:A good employee has dinner with his supervisor , hoping for a fast promotion...


(Αχ αυτή η γυναίκα μου)
George Skalenakis
George Skalenakis
-Selected filmography:* Queen of Clubs * Oh! That Wife of Mine * Imperiale -External links:...

 
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki was a Greek actress. She is considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of Greek cinema.-Biography:...

, Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...

 
Comedy IMDb
Kalos ilthe to dollario
Kalos ilthe to dollario
Kalos ilthe to dollario is a 1967 Greek theatrical comedy film directed by Alekos Sakellarios.The film stars Giorgos Konstantinou, Anna Kalouta and Sotiris Moustakas.-Plot:...


(Καλώς ήλθε το δολάριο)
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He wrote his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva...

 
Giorgos Konstadinou
Giorgos Konstadinou
Giorgos Konstadinou, born October 27, 1934 in Athens is a popular Greek actor, writer, and director. His career was boosted after the 'profiterole' scene in the movie Ktipokardia sto thranio and reached its pinnacle with the comedy film The... Kopanoi in the 1980s...

, Anna Kalouta, Sotiris Moustakas
Sotiris Moustakas
Sotiris Moustakas was a Greek/Cypriot comedy actor.- Career :One of the most significant comic actors of Greece and Cyprus, Moustakas graduated from the National Theater of Greece and was known for his portrayal of offbeat, neurotic yet likable characters. In many of his movies he portrayed...

 
Comedy IMDb
Pare kosme
(Πάρε κόσμε)
Errikos Thalassinos Thanasis Veggos, Nitsa Tsaganea
Nitsa Tsaganea
Eleni Tsaganea was a Greek actress of theatre and film.-Biography:Tsaganea was born in 1899. She was the second wife of actor Hristos Tsaganeas. In her famous movies were Enas iroas me pantoufles and Oi Germanoi xanarhonte. She was raised poor and her accommodation rent was paid by Dimitris Horn...

 
Comedy IMDb
Thalassies oi Hadres, Oi
Oi Thalassies oi Hadres
Oi Thalassies oi Hadres is a 1967 Greek musical film, directed by Giannis Dalianidis and starring Zoe Laskari, Kostas Voutsas, Martha Karagianni, Faidon Georgitsis, Giannis Vogiatzis and Mary Chronopoulou...


(Οι Θαλασσιές οι Χάντρες)
Giannis Dalianidis Zoe Laskari
Zoe Laskari
Zoe Laskari , is a Greek film and theatre actress, one of the most popular in Greece.-Life:Zoe Laskari was born Zoe Kouroukli in Thessaloniki, from a middle class family which had a long tradition of service to the Hellenic Army. At an early age she lost both her parents and was raised by her...

, Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas is a famous Greek actor, director and writer.-Biography:Voutsas was born in Thessaloniki, in 1931. He studied drama at the Drama School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his stage and screen debut in 1953...

, Martha Karagianni, Faidon Georgitsis
Musical comedy IMDb
Vortex
Vortex (film)
Vortex is a 1967 Greek drama film directed by Nikos Koundouros. It was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Philippo Vlachos - Alexis* Fanis Hinas - Filippos* Alexis Mann - Filippos' Brother...

Nikos Koundouros
Nikos Koundouros
Nikos Koundouros , is a Greek film director, born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete in 1926.He studied painting and sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and was later exiled because of his political beliefs to the Makronissos island. At the age of 28 he decided to follow a career in cinematography...

 
Entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival
17th Berlin International Film Festival
The 17th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 23 to July 4, 1967.-Jury:* Thorold Dickinson * Rüdiger von Hirschberg* Knud Leif Thomsen* Michel Aubriant* Sashadhar Mukerjee* Aleksandar Petrović* Willard Van Dyke...

1968
1968 in film
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.* November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.-Top grossing films :- Awards :...

Girls in the Sun
Girls in the Sun
Girls in the Sun is a 1968 Greek drama film directed by Vasilis Georgiadis. The film was selected as the Greek entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Giannis Voglis as Shepherd...

Vasilis Georgiadis 
Imperiale
Imperiale
Imperiale is a 1968 Greek drama film directed by George Skalenakis. The film was selected as the Greek entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 41st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Kostas Karras as Emperor...

George Skalenakis
George Skalenakis
-Selected filmography:* Queen of Clubs * Oh! That Wife of Mine * Imperiale -External links:...

 
Oikogeneia Horafa
(Οικογένεια Χωραφά)
Costas Asimakopoulos Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis
Alekos Alexandrakis was a famous Greek actor. He was known for his theatrical work as well as work in film and television. He died of lung cancer....

, Maro Kodou 
Comedy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204513/ IMDb
1969
1969 in film
The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980...

Agonia
Agonia (1969 film)
Agonia was a 1969 Greek drama film directed by Odysseas Kosteletos, written by Nikos Antonakos.-Cast:*Tolis Voskopoulos as Alexis*Eleni Anousaki as Anna*Despoina Nikolaidou as Kate Andreou*Lavrentis Dianellos*Thodoros Exarhos*Nasos Kedrakas...


(Αγωνία)
Odysseas Kosteletos  Tolis Voskopoulos
Tolis Voskopoulos
Apostolos Voskopoulos is one of the legends of modern Greek music. He also starred in many films and played in the Theatre in Athens....

, Eleni Anousaki, Lavrentis Dianellos
Lavrentis Dianellos
Lavrentis Dianellos was a Greek actor. From 1948 to 1975, he appeared in 200 films, leading one reviewer to call him "ubiquitous."-External links:**...

 
Drama IMDb
Daskala me ta xantha mallia, I
(Η δασκάλα με τα ξανθά μαλλιά)
Dinos Dimopoulos Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki was a Greek actress. She is considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of Greek cinema.-Biography:...

, Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...

, Pantelis Zervos
Pantelis Zervos
-Biography:Zervos was born in Loutraki near Corinth in Perachora. He attended the Art Theatre School with Karolos Koun . He entered the theatrical scene from 1933 and participated with the greatest stars of the time as distinction in classic and main roles, even in modern Greek civics.His most...

 
War/Romance IMDb
Ena asyllipto koroido
(Ένα ασύλληπτο κορόιδο)
Odysseas Kosteletos  Tolis Voskopoulos
Tolis Voskopoulos
Apostolos Voskopoulos is one of the legends of modern Greek music. He also starred in many films and played in the Theatre in Athens....

 
Drama IMDb
I Pariziana
(Η Παριζιάνα)
Yannis Dalianidis Rena Vlahopoulou
Rena Vlahopoulou
Irene "Rena" Vlachopoulou was a famous Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu....

 
Comedy IMDb
Z
Z (film)
Z is a 1969 French language political thriller directed by Costa Gavras, with a screenplay by Gavras and Jorge Semprún, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos. The film presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek...

Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...

 
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant is a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.-Career:...

, Yves Montand
Yves Montand
-Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...

 
Drama The assassination of Gregoris Lambrakis
Gregoris Lambrakis
Grigoris Lambrakis was a Greek politician, physician, track and field athlete, and member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Athens.-Early life:...

; Algerian-French co-production; won 2 Oscars, +9 wins, +9 nom IMDb

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