
Acting
Vangelis Kazan
Born — Died
1938-01-01 — 2008-03-10
Place of birth
Nafplio, Greece
Known for
Acting
Credits
65 titles
Vangelis Kazan (Greek: Βαγγέλης Καζάν) (1936 – 10 March 2008) was a Greek character actor. Kazan was born in Nafplion. His career in theater, cinema and television spanned for half a century. He repeatedly collaborated with Theo Angelopoulos and was awarded the Best Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1975 for his part in The Travelling Players. He died in Athens. (Source: Wikipedia)
Known for
7.5An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Ulysses' Gaze
1995
8.5The series evolves during a laid-back summer at a camping in Peloponesse, Greece. Takis is an entrepreneur who sets up and manages a campsite on a picturesque coast of the Peloponesse. He staffs the campsite with locals, including his cousin Mitsos who is a horse breeder and works as the riding instructor of the campsite. The series details the short-lived relations and interactions between campsite staff and guests, and especially the summer love of Mitsos with Samantha–an English tourist.
At the Campsite
1989
7.6Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
Landscape in the Mist
1988
7.0No synopsis available yet.
O episkeptis tis omihlis
1991
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Η Αγάπη της Γάτας
1991
6.2During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.
Weak Spot
1975
Film credits
1990s · 4 titles
7.5An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Ulysses' Gaze
1995
5.9In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.
End of an Era
1994
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Παραλάβατε διορισμόν
1996
9.0A triptych film inspired by Peloponnesian folk tales: "The Changelings", "The Sinner", and "The Antichrist".
Of Legend and Folk Tale
1993
1980s · 4 titles
7.6Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
Landscape in the Mist
1988
8.0Three friends reunite in Athens after struggling abroad. They think of a business idea but quickly realise that not everything goes as planned. When they reach out to a lawyer friend for help, they find that we are all on our own.
Ti ehoun na doun ta matia mou
1984
7.0Two parallel stories complement each other. The first recounts the investigation of a journalist and an actress who, through a radio program, attempt to identify parallels between terrorist acts of the present and the past. The second takes us back to 1948 and describes the events that led to the murder of American journalist George Polk in Thessaloniki, guided by the investigation of the two protagonists and the testimonies of various individuals.
O fakellos Polk ston aera
1988
5.8The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed.
The Man with the Carnation
1980
1970s · 23 titles
6.2During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.
Weak Spot
1975
7.2A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.
The Travelling Players
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Υπόθεση Πολκ
1978
8.5Nolia and Melios share a weird relationship in a southern village of Greece.
Closed Window
1977
4.2Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disappointment, so all the money he buys a ticket to Australia. But while the young man is waiting for departure in his life to happen a new love experience. A chance meeting with Isabella on the ship that was carrying him to Athens, would be for Angelos another test, would lead to a meeting with the past and will be the key to unlocking the old crime.
Provocation
1971
6.4The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.
Days of '36
1972
7.6During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…
The Hunters
1977
2.8A drug addict meets an aristocratic woman who married a criminal.
Conflict of Emotions
1971
9.0After the end of the war, a Nazi officer returns to Greece with the aim of recovering the hidden property of a Jew whom he had killed. The daughter of the murdered man will trap him with her charm, take back her property, and avenge her father's murder.
In the Vertigo of Sin
1972
8.0In Filiatra, a half deserted township of Messinia, the remaining farmers face a constant struggle to pay off their debts to the Agricultural Bank.
Get on Your Mark
1973
7.5The days of May 1936 in Thessaloniki and the events that led to the bloody clashes between the tobacco workers and the army are described in this film in a clear way. The people are the protagonists, and the narrative does not insist on drama or exaggeration. Of particular importance is also the presentation of the way in which the country was led, through a specific plan, to the dictatorship of Metaxas, on August 4, 1936.
May
1976
6.1Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.
Lysistrata
1972
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Οι νταντάδες
1979
8.5In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the most of the adventurism inspired in them by the post-war era and trying to make a life for themselves against the backdrop of the post-dictatorship conservative regime, the two heroes gradually lose their political conciousness and social identity and are led to ruin.
The Iron Gate
1978
6.4A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early morning hours. An unknown man suddenly comes into the shot, then walks into the sea holding an umbrella and seizes to exist, before the bewildered eyes of the whole crew. After the police are notified, a confusing array of red tape manoeuvers begins, revealing the close affiliations of the Authorities with the advertising company manager and the whole mechanism of Mass Media, all of which are trying not to investigate the event but to conceal or even exploit it in their own interest. Only the musician involved in that commercial is trying to figure out what really happened.
The Colors of Iris
1974
8.5A 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.
A Law-Abiding Citizen
1974
7.0A shipwrecked man is washed ashore in Mykonos and saved by a hotel employee. He suffers from amnesia and soon becomes romantically involved with his savior. The hotel owner falls in love with him in turn, but reports him to the police as a suspect in murder and antiquities trafficking. However, his innocence is quickly proven and the man returns to the woman who saved him.
As long as there is love
1970
6.5The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
John the Violent
1973
8.5Tony Kouroglou responds to a job ad for working in a sea-side hotel. Hitchhiking his way to the hotel, he finds himself trapped in a murder case. He hastily disposes of the body and starts his new job. When he finds out that the people that framed him stay at the hotel, he becomes determined to expose them in order to keep himself out of jail.
Kolasmenes Psyches sta Dichtya tis Idonis
1973
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Η ανταρσία των 10
1970
NRMichel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players (1975).
The Other Stage
1975
7.0During the reign of Otto, the beautiful daughter of a local lord is kidnapped. Her fiancé tries to track down the kidnappers, but to no avail. The girl endures many hardships, but eventually escapes from her captors and returns to her home and her beloved.
The Slave Girl
1970
6.0Three girls try to enjoy to the fullest their carefree lives in Athens. However, they get mixed up in situations whose full seriousness they do not grasp.
Metamorphoses
1973
1960s · 28 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ας με κρίνουν οι γυναίκες
1968
7.1Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to visit the private library of - her father's political rival - the shipowner Miltos Kassandris. Kassandris prepares his nephew - and a childhood friend of Jenny - Nikos Mantas, as a candidate for the next election. Mantas' rival has a lead, and is backed by Skoutaris, who is facing financial problems. So Kassandris decides to force Jenny to marry his nephew with a fake marriage, while at the same time financially breaks down her father in order to secure the election of his nephew. This marriage, however, will lead to unexpected situations between the couple..
Jenny Jenny
1966
7.0The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father from the obligation to recruit staff. Life Christos changing for the better and all you want to complete the happiness is to marry the daughter of his boss.
The Greedy
1967
10.0A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers the current owner of the villa that used to belong to him.
The Drunk of the Harbor
1967
6.6A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece.
Girls in the Sun
1969
6.6A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic forces and their status in life, and love might conquer all.
Trouba '67
1967
9.0The daughter of a powerful husband in a mountainous village in Greece is being forced to marry a wealthy villager while loving a poor lad. Her beloved will leave the village, giving an oath to return and marry her.
Bloody earth
1967
7.4Manousos is the biggest child of a poor and crowded family living in the province. After finishing his term, he decides to work in Athens to help his mother. His friends and acquaintances are detestable, but he will find work as a singer in a nightclub. Soon she knows success and marries Eleni. But her brother wants to spoil their happiness.
Humbled And Dejected
1968
7.0The adventures of a car tire in the Attica region, in Greece. The tire was unexpectedly released from the car and started wandering independently in various places
The Wheel
1964
6.5Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the wedding, Peter leaves for London, but when he returns, Lisa's relatives avoid him. What has happened;
Unfair curse
1967
7.0Dimitris, a poor painter who feels deeply disappointed in his life, leaves his wife and begins to wander aimlessly. The woman who raised him after the death of his parents, Mrs. Marigo, must now undergo a difficult operation and Dimitris is forced to submit to the whims of the rich Rita, in order to help his sick nanny. Another failed painter, Alexis, who lives as a gigolo, is also Rita's lover, but Dimitris is unaware of this. Will the silent anti-jealousy end in a stabbing? (greek-movies.com)
Crooked Deeds
1969
5.3A proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds out that her daughter is in love with him, she marries her off to his friend, and now, the knives have the final say. Can reason prevail?
Make Me A Woman
1965
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Abduction
1964
7.2Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the destruction of Smyrni. From an old man learns that his father did not die but was arrested by the Turks. He decides to follow the scientific mission of Professor John Anderson in Turkey, to find traces of his father.
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
1969
10.0A pair of struggling artists meanders through Athens, Greece, posing as tourists to keep a roof over their heads.
The Tourists
1963
6.3No synopsis available yet.
The fate of the innocent
1965
NRA Greek-American expatriate with six months to live embezzles millions from his New York City company and flees to his hometown of Mytilene. But law and fate never forget, and a chance encounter with love complicates matters.
Erotes sti Lesvo
1967
6.0We are in 1942, in the middle of the German Occupation, on an island opposite the coast of Asia Minor, where a mature woman, Katerina Rodeli, cares for a wounded resistance fighter named Kanaris. In her memory, there are images of the past, the panic of the Asia Minor catastrophe and especially the entrance of the tsets in her village. There she lost her three-year-old son, Konstantin, whom he never ceased to look for. However, the village's mackerel maharagrite handed it over to the Germans and, in the face of the danger, they were arrested along with the wounded and a boat ride on the Turkish coast to find themselves immediately enclosed in a refugee camp. His commander is a tough second lieutenant, Osen, who is bought by the English consulate of Izmir to transfer the fugitives to Egypt.
Persecution
1964
5.8Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, borrows their new car. When Lilly crashes the car, she asks Mary to cover for her so that her husband doesn’t find about her new affair. The case of the car crash is brought to court, and Mary is accused. Things get so complicated that not even Lilly’s confession can solve the misunderstanding.
The Woman Driver
1964
5.9The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt the 14th located in his mother's belly.
Horafa family
1968
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
1969
7.0Three students share their dreams for their future after school. Yanna is the moral compass of the film. She wants to work, become financially independent, and then, if she finds the man who speaks to her heart, get married and start a family. Katerina simply wants to get married and take care of her children, and the third member of the group wants to solve her financial problems through a wealthy marriage. She doesn't care about love and romance, she doesn't want children, she wants a life full of "money" even if it means marrying without love. The camera finally focuses on Yanna's life, which seems to be going uphill. Remaining steadfast in her beliefs, she looks for work. When, after a year, she manages to find a job in the offices of a factory, her boss, Mr. Georgiou, makes advances towards her and she seriously injures him.
Uphill
1964
7.0A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2
The Cannon and the Nightingale
1968
5.8Reluctantly, an otherwise honest paterfamilias accepts his shady friend's proposition to start a career in crime. Now, his daughter is in love with the son of a wealthy target. Will the kind robber renounce his former self for her sake?
A Thief with Philotimo
1968
8.0A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when she learns she is about to die.
Slum, my love
1969
9.0A rich young man is in love with a dancer, whom she marries against the will of his parents.
Artesta
1966
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες
1966
9.0After their father's death, the vicious and drunken eldest son, Angelos, kicks out of the house his stepbrother Nikolas, a kind-hearted and hardworking young man in love with Angelos' sister, Marina, and he vows to take revenge for the cruel way his brother treated him. But the years pass and Marina has married her childhood friend Petros, the only person who helped her in the difficult times, after the disappearance of Nikolas. Angel has squandered his fortune and is in danger of losing everything to a creditor. But, on Christmas Eve, Nikolas' good heart commands him to forgive Angelos and be alone with him.
Ένα παιδί χωρίς όνομα
1964
Series credits
8.5The series evolves during a laid-back summer at a camping in Peloponesse, Greece. Takis is an entrepreneur who sets up and manages a campsite on a picturesque coast of the Peloponesse. He staffs the campsite with locals, including his cousin Mitsos who is a horse breeder and works as the riding instructor of the campsite. The series details the short-lived relations and interactions between campsite staff and guests, and especially the summer love of Mitsos with Samantha–an English tourist.
At the Campsite
1989
7.0No synopsis available yet.
O episkeptis tis omihlis
1991
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Η Αγάπη της Γάτας
1991
No synopsis available yet.
Η Πόλη
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Χρόνια πολλά γλυκιά μου
1988

