
Acting
Kostas Tsakonas
Born — Died
1943-10-12 — 2015-11-04
Place of birth
Athens, Greece
Known for
Acting
Credits
69 titles
Kostas Tsakonas graduated from Diplarion School with a degree in Electrical Engineering and studied at the "Drama School of the People's Experimental Theater" of Leonidas Trivizas and the "Veaki" drama school. His first appearance in cinema was completely by chance in a short film by Kostas Zyrinis. He then played many leading roles in cinema, theater and television. His role in the film "Teach My Child Letters" was a characteristic one. The actor was seriously injured in 2004 when a tree fell on his head and in combination with various health problems that plagued him, he was no longer able to work in the theater. His health problems and difficult financial situation led him to consider g…
Known for
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Η Δίψα
1990
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Η Αγάπη της Γάτας
1991
6.7Thanasis an honest tax official in the tax office. He can not cope and has trouble providing the family of the necessities. So the wife is forced to go to work in a factory as a result not seen at all. !!!
Thanasi tightened your belt even more
1980
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ένας έρωτας
1996
1.0They grew up in the same neighborhood but the problems of that time had the consequence that when they were ten years old they separated and since then they have not met again. The years passed, the two children grew up and went their own way. He opened a funeral home, but feels very lonely because he has not been able to start a family of his own. She is a talented singer, who never forgot her childhood friend, who lost him so suddenly. But fate once again plays its own strange game and thus an inheritance brings them together again, after twenty whole years of separation. But in order to inherit a huge sum, they have to get married first, otherwise they lose her. So of course they get married, but as a wedding rehearsal, nothing more. But during their married life, unforeseen problems will begin to arise...
Πρόβα...γάμου
1986
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Παντρεμένοι... ανύπαντροι
1994
Film credits
2010s · 4 titles
4.0Director Haritidis undertakes to adapt his friend, Prefect Panagiotis Psomiadis' book about their parents' adventures for the cinema. The book is about two children who unwittingly witness a mafia clash but, more importantly, see where these people hid a treasure. Years later, the two boys, crippled by debt, decide to search for it. Unfortunately for them, a convent has been built on the site. The adventures begin when the two men, now grown up, try to devise ways to enter the convent and search for the treasure undisturbed.
The Pontians: New Generation
2011
7.7Diomidis and Aristides embark on a road trip through rural Greece. They both confront personal dilemmas. Diomidis recently discovered his wife's infidelity, while Aristides is struggling with his directing career.
Magic Hour
2012
4.5No synopsis available yet.
Πως να σωπάσω
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
He was All Laughing
2019
2000s · 9 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Πετσί και Κόκκαλη
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Our... Kolotravas wants it.
2005
8.0All these years as a director and choreographer, I have a recipe. To give the world as rich sets and costumes as we can. This year the company gave all of that and more. That's why I think this job represents me. I hope the show is a success and that I can continue with more demands.
What Kind of Panties Will You Deliver to God, Bitch?
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
My PASOK, sorry...
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mourlenium 2000
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The crazy farm
2004
2.7An arrogant politician feeds his mail ego in meeting with a Russian call girl. At the same time his wife, a young hysterical star, picks a fight on set with a talk-show hostess who is in a loveless marriage with a yuppie manager who vents in therapy.
Illustration
2006
6.6As the lights flicker on a warm August night, amidst vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he just met at a phone booth, while strolling around the city's quiet night streets.
Cheap Smokes
2001
NREthnos newspaper: A group of remarkable protagonists join forces and impress in a demanding revue, earning warm applause from the audience.
Salome was a Wonderful Kisser
2000
1990s · 3 titles
7.0This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.
The Athenians
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Karnavali sto trigono ton pappoudon
1991
9.0A police comedy/fantasy adventure with witches, ghosts, beautiful fairies and a cop who tries to solve a mysterious murder.
Moon Runway
1994
1980s · 40 titles
6.7Thanasis an honest tax official in the tax office. He can not cope and has trouble providing the family of the necessities. So the wife is forced to go to work in a factory as a result not seen at all. !!!
Thanasi tightened your belt even more
1980
1.0They grew up in the same neighborhood but the problems of that time had the consequence that when they were ten years old they separated and since then they have not met again. The years passed, the two children grew up and went their own way. He opened a funeral home, but feels very lonely because he has not been able to start a family of his own. She is a talented singer, who never forgot her childhood friend, who lost him so suddenly. But fate once again plays its own strange game and thus an inheritance brings them together again, after twenty whole years of separation. But in order to inherit a huge sum, they have to get married first, otherwise they lose her. So of course they get married, but as a wedding rehearsal, nothing more. But during their married life, unforeseen problems will begin to arise...
Πρόβα...γάμου
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ο Παπαμαφίας
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ο πιλότος της κολάσεως
1985
7.6The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.
Educate Yourself My Son
1981
5.2Fed up with her unbearable and good-for-nothing husband, a proud Pontian-Greek woman from Kilkis decides to try her luck in the bustling city of Athens in search of a better future. But, can she make it big all alone?
I gynaikara ap' to Kilkis
1985
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Βίβα γλυκειά μου Κατερίνα
1989
6.0In this highly stylized and enigmatic story, Olga uses her cello case as a weapons cache. When she isn’t using her sharpshooting skills to knock off eminent Arab visitors to Athens, she vamps around lightly clad on the terrace of her penthouse, entertaining one man after another.
Olga Robards
1989
No synopsis available yet.
Χωρίς μαλλί και γνώση
1985
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
10.0Pantelis Hatzikoutoules is a professional court witness who testifies after he is been paid.
Ο Ψευδομάρτυρας
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ο κυνηγός της χαμένης φαλάκρας
1985
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Μας τάπαν κι άλλοι που την είχαν πιο μεγάλη
1987
4.7Papa-Malachias, Papa-Haros and Papa-Bilias have founded the Priestly Band and make appearances at the nightclub "Xerokomata". Their abbot, who is learning their new occupation, comes to Athens, but fails to make sense of them. When he returns to the monastery of Medouli and tells everything to the other monks, they leave the monastery and form their own rebetika bands, causing a crisis in the field of folk song. At the same time, Papa-Lazaros, who is looking for a solution to his financial problems and at the same time is trying to find money to build a new wing for his parish's orphanage, is resorting to the following solution: setting up a football team with priests.
National Priests
1984
6.5Polykarpos,a poor family man, has a son whose only interest is in baskeball.
Μάθε Παιδί Μου Μπάσκετ
1987
NRA television reporter's investigation into the life of a popular idol, singer Demis Flerianos, becomes an opportunity to highlight and document a series of political and social situations and issues in the early 1980s. Easy wealth, rural depopulation, cultural degeneration, bad taste, the preservation of sterile anti-communism, etc.
And once again, toward glory he strives
1980
6.0Babis, who is crazy about rock music, gives a performance with his band "Jelings Band" to his fellow villagers. However, they don't like disco and beat him up. Disappointed, he heads to Athens to become a star. He meets Eva, the daughter of a big hotel owner. Eva starts to like him, unlike her friends who make fun of him. Bambis, penniless and level-headed, approaches the hotel manager and is hired as a chambermaid under the name Agrampeli. However, the ingenious detective Tsakmakis realizes what is going on...
Rock Star During the Day... At Night Maid
1984
2.0No synopsis available yet.
Καθαρίζω για τη γυναίκα μου
1987
6.4Giorikas and Kostikas, Pontian immigrants, return to Greece from Germany. Their goal is to understand why jokes are told about Pontians and who spreads them. They learn that some Pontians are responsible. Kostikas stops the circulation of the jokes until he realizes how sad life is without them, so he allows them to be circulated again.
The Pontians
1986
NRWhen Alexis meets Elena, he agrees to play a game with her. He has to pretend to be her lover so that Elena can get rid of Tony. But Alexis, who is in love with her, takes his role seriously and things start to get complicated.
Erastis apo hartoni
1989
7.2Meet Mastro-Yannis, who, together with his assistant Vlasis, is capable of turning your household upside down. The biggest mess-makers in town, they get involved in unbelievable situations, blunders, and romantic adventures every day, while defending their business against Meremet Service, a multinational company that wants to shut them down. In this film, Kostas Tsakonas was injured when he fell from a folding ladder while trying to climb up to the attic to fix a water heater, and filming was halted for ten days.
Classic Failure Case
1987
4.0To be horned something goes and comes, but to be daring is still ridiculous. This was also the thought of July, and in order to save the wood, as the horn is impossible, he decides to find his wife's lover himself.
Cuckold and Beaten
1986
10.0Kostas Tsakonas is Thomas Rezilikis, a professional unemployed pontiac with a strange habit.
Πόντιος Είμαι... Αλλά Κάνω Θεραπεία
1987
4.8In a girls' school, the students compete with each other in scandalous behavior. Sassy and experienced, they decide to seduce one of their serious teachers, the young gym teacher Dimitris, who performs his duties as an educator with great conscientiousness but refuses to see them as women.
Thilyko thiriotrofeio
1984
NRUncle Julius arrives from abroad and Soula runs around in a panic. The reason is that her uncle does not know that his niece is single, so she has to introduce him to a groom to prevent him from finding out the truth. The groom is eventually found completely by chance, and the game begins...
Kane mou ligaki... ma
1987
7.0The 2 protagonists, Trifon and his assistant, Vassilakis work as plumbers, try to survive with dignity, but instead they destroy everything they undertake to repair, while demonstrating brazen behavior to their clients.
The big blockage
1988
3.6Aris, Billias, and the rest of the students decide to return to school with the excuse of earning their high school diplomas without any favors this time.Aris and Billias put their plan into action and the fun returns to everyday life.Two new teachers appear on the scene. One is a chemistry teacher who, due to a mistake, transforms into a different animal every so often, and the other is a kindergarten teacher.
Wheel, Bag and Truants 3
1984
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Ο φακίρης
1989
8.0When you are overwhelmed by obligations and have a large family, you do everything you can to make ends meet. You even become a professional fan. But what happens when you start mixing up the insignia?
Professional Fan
1985
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ο Iππότης της Λιγούρας
1986
6.1A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to deal with them.
Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
1980
5.4A tailor tries to build his house on his unplanned plot of land and gets tangled up with banks, public services, and contractors, while his family also faces its own problems.
For a Handful of Bricks
1987
4.8After four years in the Mediterranean as deck ratings of a luxurious cruiser, two Pontian Greeks return to their hometown of Athens to settle down with a well-off woman from the big city. But, is the perfect match closer than they think?
Pontios eimai, oti thelo kano
1986
6.5Lordan is a primitive man who lives alone and believes he is the only human being on Earth. His life is simple and peaceful, without problems or stress, but Lordan is not happy. His only companions are animals, to whom he talks before eating them, in order to forget his loneliness. In his effort to find someone else of his kind, he decides to search far from his cave, which he has never left until now.
Lordan, o varvaros
1987
10.0Angeliki, a young woman seeking devotion, enters a secluded convent ruled by a harsh abbess with a hidden past. Among nuns escaping their own lives, tensions rise and buried secrets slowly surface within the silence of the cloister.
Act Of Faith
1982
8.0Vangos and Alkis, poor musicians, in their anxiety to earn a living, unwittingly become entangled in the web of an illegal gang. To save their lives, they disguise themselves as women and are hired along with five girls in a female music band. But their troubles are not over. The comical misunderstandings that arise lead them to a dead end...
Alles ton protimoun gouli
1986
5.5Kostas Tsakonas plays the role of an assassin from Chicago.
The Terminator Was Pontios
1986
NRIn this offering, Kostas Tsakonas (a champion of the SOV comedy of the era) as a wimpy poor guy & petty thief who lives with his nephew, is chosen by the arch-Dracula to rule Greece, since he's a long lost relative of the vampire family, and since the current Prime Minister has sucked the Greeks dry (yes, there's some awful not-so-subtle dated attempts at political satire in there as well). What follows is Tsakona's transformation and consequent attempts to adjust to his new vampiric lifestyle, while a clumsy exorcist and some of his fellow villagers are after him.
Count Tsakona and His Draculettes
1989
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ερωτικό ταξίδι
1989
8.2Marika is an ordinary Greek housewife living with her family in Athens. Her everyday is a living hell.
Occupation: Woman
1986
1970s · 4 titles
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
8.0In 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
6.5The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
John the Violent
1973
6.2A conscientious tanker driver, Thanasis Papathanasis, works hard to help his sister Afroditi study medicine. He believes that in this way he will be able to marry her off so that then he can finally marry Eleni, whom he has loved for years. His efforts, however, are all in vain, as he is constantly confronted with a corrupt establishment and political situation that generate all the prevailing misfortunes: personal, social and national.
Which Way to the Septic Tank?
1978
Series credits
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Η Δίψα
1990
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Η Αγάπη της Γάτας
1991
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ένας έρωτας
1996
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Παντρεμένοι... ανύπαντροι
1994
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Η δίκη
1991
8.0Four men and one woman, possessed by a "natural need" for the law, create the NSPR (Special Body to Fight Poverty) and intervene whenever circumstances call for them. However, the driving force behind everything is the old hacker named Nikephoros A', who not only watches, protects and sometimes subtly guides his son's scandalous group, but also paves the way for the Greece of the future...
Ta haidemena paidia
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Το τέλος της μοναξιάς
1991
Behind the camera
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Μας τάπαν κι άλλοι που την είχαν πιο μεγάλη
1987
NRIn this offering, Kostas Tsakonas (a champion of the SOV comedy of the era) as a wimpy poor guy & petty thief who lives with his nephew, is chosen by the arch-Dracula to rule Greece, since he's a long lost relative of the vampire family, and since the current Prime Minister has sucked the Greeks dry (yes, there's some awful not-so-subtle dated attempts at political satire in there as well). What follows is Tsakona's transformation and consequent attempts to adjust to his new vampiric lifestyle, while a clumsy exorcist and some of his fellow villagers are after him.
Count Tsakona and His Draculettes
1989
