Giorgos Kotanidis

Acting

Giorgos Kotanidis

Born — Died

1945-02-05 — 2020-01-28

Place of birth

Thessaloniki, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Giorgos Kotanidis (23 May 1945, Drama - 28 January 2020, Athens) was a Greek actor, director and writer. Until the age of twelve, he lived in Drama, the birthplace of his parents who had come as refugees from Pontus. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre, abandoning his studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was one of the creators of the Free Theatre in Allos Pagratiou and later during his theatrical career he collaborated with many troupes and directors, playing theatrical roles of all kinds. He also played several roles in Greek and international cinema, as well as on television. Politicized and integrated into the Left, he participated in the student mo…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 1 titles

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 2 titles

1980s · 9 titles

Hardbodies 2 poster
3.3

A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Before their work is done they will have to face many unusual situations, along with numerous opportunities for the actresses to take their clothes off.

Hardbodies 2

1986

Pretty Smart poster
4.8

In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean. She vents her anger by rebelling against the cruel and sicko headmaster. When she discovers that he has been secretly photographing them naked and profiting from the pictures, she rallies the other girls and gets revenge.

Pretty Smart

1987

Electric Angel poster
4.9

A typical experimental film, in which a variety of audiovisual techniques are used to create the sense of polymorphic eroticism as developed by European and Mediterranean cinematography of the 20th century. Combining the methods of “animation” and “live action”, this intricate work embodies the idea of an “ars combinatoria”. The structure is loose, with neither a central axis nor a point where everything converges, contributing greatly to the open-ended character of the film, where rhythm is the key element.

Electric Angel

1981

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

Parangelia! poster
7.4

The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespecting his brother Demos' zeibekiko, a traditional Greek dance.

Parangelia!

1980

The Girl From Mani poster
5.3

For Her Love Has Become A Desperate Dream.

The Girl From Mani

1986

When the Greeks poster
6.0

At the turn of the twentieth century a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the arch-brigand and realizes that the underground life and moral code of his kidnappers actually represent a more genuine expression of “New Hellenism” than his bourgeois well-being.

When the Greeks

1981

Misunderstanding poster
9.0

Dimitris Lembessis gets out of prison, pays his friend Stratos a visit and kills him. With Ilias he organizes a big jewel heist. During the operation they discover that someone has ratted on them. In their attempt to escape, a police officer is killed and Ilias is mortally wounded...

Misunderstanding

1983

Αθώος ή ένοχος; poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Αθώος ή ένοχος;

1989

Series credits

Για Μια Θέση στον Ήλιο poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Για Μια Θέση στον Ήλιο

1999

Μια γυναίκα από το παρελθόν poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μια γυναίκα από το παρελθόν

1992

Βοήθεια γειτόνοι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Βοήθεια γειτόνοι

2003

Φιλί Ζωής poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Φιλί Ζωής

2002

Manto Mavrogenous poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Manto Mavrogenous

1983

Prodosia poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Prodosia

1997

No artwork available
8.0

Eva and Christina are two modern women, around thirty-five, inseparable friends since they were eighteen. They have studied acting, but are out of the theater, each for their own reasons. Christina lives with her 14-year-old daughter, Aliki, whom she had at a very young age from her marriage to her teacher, famous leading actor, Yannis Zervas, a marriage which, however, ended ingloriously ten years ago. She works as a waitress in an "in" bar, "Ephemeron", where the artistic world gathers, in order to be able to make ends meet. However, in her personal life she has been happy, as she lives a passionate love with her younger brother, Lambis, a student at the Drama School and her colleague at the bar. Eva, locked in the golden cage of a socially successful, but essentially unsuccessful, marriage to the great lawyer Minas Christopoulos, is busy raising the two children she had with him and her mother. Her deep desire is to return to the theater....

Like sisters

1999

Λίστα γάμου poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Λίστα γάμου

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Πλάκα μου κάνεις!

2007

Τα χαμένα γράμματα poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Τα χαμένα γράμματα

1997

Behind the camera