Vana Barba

Acting

Vana Barba

Born

1966-03-13 (60)

Place of birth

Ioannina, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Vana Barba (March 13, 1966, Ioannina) is a Greek actress, and former model, awarded as Miss Greece in 1984. Her career began after her victory in 1984 as Miss Greece while in the same year she was a candidate for Miss World. With her appearance in the Italian film Mediterraneo, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991, she became widely known and continued her career appearing in television and theater.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

Mediterraneo poster
7.6

Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.

Mediterraneo

1991

Take Care poster
4.6

A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an affair with the widow and cannot decide between them

Take Care

1991

Loneliness Everywhere, Loneliness Nowhere poster
3.8

A couple in crisis comes closer when the woman (who suspecting her husband of adultery) decides to work as a dancer in a nightclub. When he sees her dancing, he desires her again.

Loneliness Everywhere, Loneliness Nowhere

1998

Lefki apeili poster
NR

Petros is a cop who loses his job and ends up sleeping on the streets. His chance comes when the head of security brings him back into action to take down a ruthless drug lord. Petros starts working for the drug lord as an undercover agent and makes the mistake of getting involved with his girlfriend, Monica.

Lefki apeili

1990

Orpheus Descending poster
8.0

Eurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and Eurydice gets convinced by a rich farmer to follow him to Athens, where he promises her that he will make her a famous singer. Things do not turn out as promised, and Eurydice returns to the band, which is very successful now, due to Orpheus, a mute clarinet player, who has joined them. The farmer comes to reclaim her by force and Eurydice gets killed in a car accident. Orpheus tries to give her life with his clarinet.

Orpheus Descending

1996

I alitisa poster
NR

A great baby food industry is poisoning the children using trashy feedstock. A girl of the nobility, studying mannequin comes from Paris, disguised in alitissa and trying to find the edge in the odd case.

I alitisa

1990

1980s · 25 titles

The Homosexuals poster
NR

Alexis Panas, a brilliant trainee psychiatrist, leads a double life. By day, Alexis handles complex cases for inmates at a mental health clinic. By night, the quiet psychotherapist frequents Athens' seedy gay bars looking for pleasure. As Alexis' complicated existence unfolds, the stories of fellow lost souls depict the city's ugly face and the chronic problem of acceptance and racism that society stubbornly shies away from dealing with. But the closeted psychologist knows he is playing with fire. After all, he is looking for love in all the wrong places. And when a horrible incident leaves him open-mouthed, Alexis will have to choose: live a life in fear or live his life.

The Homosexuals

1988

Το Τίμημα της... Λόξας poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Το Τίμημα της... Λόξας

1988

Living Dangerously poster
6.6

On the morning of the World Cup final, Karamanos, an employee of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (TOE), connects his commander's personal computer to a devilishly complex and explosive device. He threatens to blow up the floor and the satellite dishes above if he is not allowed to appear on the national network 10 minutes before the football match to denounce all the wrongs that plague the lives of Greek citizens and make them victims of a partisan and corrupt state.

Living Dangerously

1987

Feminine cocktail poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Feminine cocktail

1989

Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς

1986

Οι εγκέφαλοι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Οι εγκέφαλοι

1987

Ο πρωτάρης και η Ρίτα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο πρωτάρης και η Ρίτα

1989

The Pink Cat poster
6.7

Panos and Archimidis are colleagues and co-tenants. Panos is a modern young man, whereas Archimidis is more conservative. Panos tries to make Archimidis live his life more passionately. Archimidis then develops a dual personality. In the morning, he is a restrained teacher, and at night he is a reveller and a skirt-chaser. When his sister is kidnapped, Archimidis enters a hospital to overcome his problem.

The Pink Cat

1985

Love Me Not? poster
5.6

Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.

Love Me Not?

1989

Crazy Holiday poster
NR

Peter, a lively and wacky young, along with the equally crazy friends, erecting tents on a beach next to a luxury hotel, which makes a holiday of the girl, Anna, along with strict parents of, not the allow comes with this company. The sister of Peter drifted into a supposedly Anna erotic rendezvous father to give the opportunity to Anna to see his brother

Crazy Holiday

1985

Επικίνδυνη σχέση poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Επικίνδυνη σχέση

1989

Deluxe Madhouse poster
4.4

Sometimes clumsy, sometimes amateurish, a well-meaning private eye is assigned the task of uncovering a conspiracy involving his old friend's sweetheart. Will he finally manage to get to the bottom of it?

Deluxe Madhouse

1989

To stigma tis enohis poster
3.3

Helen knew the pitfalls of life and the struggles of survival from her childhood. The world around her, the people she knew and became close to, all hid some secret sins and a dirty past. They all had some stigma of guilt... But when a dangerous secret comes to light, none of them could ever have imagined that Helen...

To stigma tis enohis

1985

Agrafos nomos poster
8.0

Stratos, a marginal figure, carries on his shoulders the freedom and doubts of his generation. Upon leaving prison after serving a five-year sentence, he will seek out those responsible, demanding his share of a theft for which he paid the consequences. It is an extremely dangerous journey, and to reach his destination, he must pass through the dark circles of nighttime illegality. He encounters old "friends" who still want him as a pawn in their game, women with strange identities, and police officers who lead him into a relentless pursuit...

Agrafos nomos

1987

The Cruise of Love poster
3.0

Jealousy is a reasonable indication of love and expressions of interest for the other half. But when it exceeds the reasonable limits, is suffering for both. Typical is the case of a jealous wife who during a cruise in the Mediterranean, will upset everyone with her antics.

The Cruise of Love

1988

Πάθος και έρωτας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Πάθος και έρωτας

1989

Krevatokamara me thea poster
2.0

Elladex, a large company, cannot escape bankruptcy, and the man who exposes the scandals, the kickbacks, and the millions in embezzlement is the peaceful and law-abiding Stefanos, who suddenly finds himself entangled with presidents who want to buy him out, with presidents' wives who provoke him, with ruthless shareholders, and on top of that, he finds time to fall in love. He falls in love with a former burglar whom he introduces as his secretary, unaware that she is wanted by the police. Suddenly, Stefanos finds himself with a suitcase full of money in his room and no way to get rid of it...

Krevatokamara me thea

1989

The clerk goes to heaven poster
3.0

Hermes is a conscientious, honest, and hardworking employee at a canning factory. He lives a calm and quiet family life. He will soon retire, which weighs heavily on him. On his last business trip to Mykonos, his friends will give him a strange gift. They will send him a beautiful and impressive woman who will radically change his life. She will make him feel and taste what he has been deprived of for so many years...

The clerk goes to heaven

1989

Multiethnic groom poster
9.0

The Greek husband wants to find someone who will take care of him and serve him in the kitchen and in the bedroom. Dreams and reality intertwine, creating a chain of comical episodes...

Multiethnic groom

1987

Sentenced to Death poster
6.0

This is a two-episode video series, each episode lasting approximately 80 minutes. This video series, together with the video series "Unknown War 2: The Man with Two Faces," is a remake of the older television series "The Unknown War (1971)." Two video series were released due to the long total duration. The original music by Danae Evangelou from the opening credits of the 1971 television series is the same music heard in the opening credits of the video series. These two video series were broadcast as a television series by ANT1 under the title "The Unknown War (1990)" when the station began operating, and it was the first Greek television series broadcast by the station. That television series was rerun in 1995 by New Channel.

Sentenced to Death

1987

Einai gata o giatros poster
10.0

Tassos is an ideal husband and renowned gynecologist. Suddenly, his wife discovers that a villa with a swimming pool has been rented in her husband's name, where two stunning women are staying. Poor Tassos desperately tries to prove that he never cheated on his wife...

Einai gata o giatros

1986

The unmarried father poster
NR

One day, a middle-aged womanizer, finds on his doorstep a baby, without knowing anything about baby's mother. His life will never be the same again.

The unmarried father

1988

Hoshiyar poster
9.0

Two brothers, separated in their youth, grow up to be a singer and an assassin, with the latter being hired to kill the former. Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha. Directed by K. Raghavendra Rao.

Hoshiyar

1989

Wow, my dear mother! poster
NR

Manos, a young and successful advertising man, loves women, but they love him too. His friend, Andreas, comes from the village to find him for work and he offers him full hospitality. Life is a gift for Andreas until the moment their fiancées arrive and the rescue is made...

Wow, my dear mother!

1985

O sofos kai i Sofia poster
NR

Stefanos Zalanis is a favorite author among women. However, he remains unmarried, especially after a failed relationship with Dora. But then Sofia enters his life, and despite the 20-year age difference between them, she falls in love with him and manages to make him fall in love with her too. However, this love will prove to be adventurous. One day, Stefanos is notified that Sofia has been arrested...

O sofos kai i Sofia

1987

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