
Directing
Orestis Laskos
Born — Died
1907-11-11 — 1992-10-17
Place of birth
Elefsina, Attiki, Greece
Known for
Directing
Credits
46 titles
Orestis Laskos (Greek: Ορέστης Λάσκος; 11 November 1907 – 17 October 1992) was a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 55 films between 1931 and 1971. He also wrote scripts for 24 films between 1929 and 1971.
Known for
4.2The message of the return of Captain Nikoli sfakianes Andros, after four years of absence, will bring great inconvenience to his house. His wife Chrisoula will scrape together the three daughters of the party on the beaches and transform them appropriately, knowing how severe is the captain. The change is so successful that Captain Nikolas disappointed by their appearance ...
Rough Seas
1966
9.0A successful businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair with his best friend. Sadly, it will take more than a decade to unearth the truth, as his daughter thirsts for answers and closure. But, were they, indeed, lovers?
Jealousy
1963
9.0In a village in the Peloponnese, on the slopes of Mt. Chelmos, lives rich sheep owner Mitros with his wife Asimina, his son Thymios and adopted daughter Astero. The children love each other, but Mitros betroths Astero to Stamos, another rich sheep owner. When Stamos is killed and Astero loses her mind, Mitros, watching his son wither away, tells him that his entire fortune is Astero's and urges him to marry her.
Astero
1929
7.5No synopsis available yet.
The Eagle of the Enslaved
1970
7.0The heirs of two Cypriot winemakers and sworn rivals visit incognito the city of Paphos to flee from two arranged marriages of convenience, only to meet and fall in love. Is this a star-crossed affair in the likes of Romeo and Juliet?
Vacation to Our Cyprus
1971
7.0A kind-hearted teacher saves a girl from suicide and takes her into his home. However, he is newly married and the next day he leaves with his wife for their honeymoon. On the train, he encounters the same girl. The situation quickly becomes complicated, his wife becomes suspicious, and many misunderstandings arise.
Unmarried Groom
1967
Film credits
1930s · 1 titles
1920s · 1 titles
Behind the camera
4.2The message of the return of Captain Nikoli sfakianes Andros, after four years of absence, will bring great inconvenience to his house. His wife Chrisoula will scrape together the three daughters of the party on the beaches and transform them appropriately, knowing how severe is the captain. The change is so successful that Captain Nikolas disappointed by their appearance ...
Rough Seas
1966
9.0A successful businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair with his best friend. Sadly, it will take more than a decade to unearth the truth, as his daughter thirsts for answers and closure. But, were they, indeed, lovers?
Jealousy
1963
9.0In a village in the Peloponnese, on the slopes of Mt. Chelmos, lives rich sheep owner Mitros with his wife Asimina, his son Thymios and adopted daughter Astero. The children love each other, but Mitros betroths Astero to Stamos, another rich sheep owner. When Stamos is killed and Astero loses her mind, Mitros, watching his son wither away, tells him that his entire fortune is Astero's and urges him to marry her.
Astero
1929
7.5No synopsis available yet.
The Eagle of the Enslaved
1970
7.0The heirs of two Cypriot winemakers and sworn rivals visit incognito the city of Paphos to flee from two arranged marriages of convenience, only to meet and fall in love. Is this a star-crossed affair in the likes of Romeo and Juliet?
Vacation to Our Cyprus
1971
7.0A kind-hearted teacher saves a girl from suicide and takes her into his home. However, he is newly married and the next day he leaves with his wife for their honeymoon. On the train, he encounters the same girl. The situation quickly becomes complicated, his wife becomes suspicious, and many misunderstandings arise.
Unmarried Groom
1967
6.6Erotic tangles forced Fani and Panai to leave from Athens to Chalkida, there they await new adventures with women, which will result in marriage, but Panai will escape the wedding night.
Min eidate ton Panai?
1962
10.0A woman who lives happily with her husband and child discovers that she is suffering from cancer and tries to ensure their happiness after her death, without learning anything about the truth…
Goodbye Zoe
1960
5.8Yangos Aggelis (Lambros Konstantaras), director of a factory, is the type of classical friend. He is only interested in himself while he is engaged for five years with Eleni (Beata Asimakopoulou) whom she does not say married. At the same time he is sexually attached to his czech secretary, Lilly, whom he wants to marry with an impoverished employee in order to have his hand. When she learns that Mrs. Papageorgiou (Miranda Myrat), the widow of the factory owner, intends to remarry, she does not hesitate to apply. However, his excessive selfishness and irresponsible attitude lead him to complete isolation, as everyone leaves him.
Me, Myself and I
1964
5.8Yangos Aggelis (Lambros Konstantaras), director of a factory, is the type of classical friend. He is only interested in himself while he is engaged for five years with Eleni (Beata Asimakopoulou) whom she does not say married. At the same time he is sexually attached to his czech secretary, Lilly, whom he wants to marry with an impoverished employee in order to have his hand. When she learns that Mrs. Papageorgiou (Miranda Myrat), the widow of the factory owner, intends to remarry, she does not hesitate to apply. However, his excessive selfishness and irresponsible attitude lead him to complete isolation, as everyone leaves him.
Me, Myself and I
1964
6.6After his business' bankrupcy, Giorgos Alexiou decides to commit suicide. Rosa, his cousin's wife who stand to benefit form his death, hires a private detective to keep an eye on him in case he changes his mind. Minas, Giorgos' employee, becomes Giorgos' guardian angel preventing the suicide at the last minute.
To Be or Not To Be
1966
10.0Maro, the daughter of shepherd Panos, is in love with his son, Liakos. They want to marry but his father does not agree.
Gerakina
1958
10.0Maro, the daughter of shepherd Panos, is in love with his son, Liakos. They want to marry but his father does not agree.
Gerakina
1958
6.6Grigoris (Kostas Voutsas), a shopkeeper from Katerini, wins the first prize at a radio station that covers his expenses for a week in Athens. Arriving in the capital, the members of two gangs think it is Polydoros, the man who was to carry a stolen ancient statue to sell it to a rich collector. Grigoris, by chance, acquires the statue, and the captain (Kostas Kazakos) of a gang, with the help of a charming woman (Eleni Prokopiou), tries to trap him. Eventually, Grigoris will be hunted by both the gangs and the police ...
The face of the day
1965
4.2Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is based on the 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848-1912). Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
The Unknown
1954
4.2Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is based on the 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848-1912). Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
The Unknown
1954
5.7In Lesvos, shepherd Lamonas someday finds an abandoned baby boy suckling a goat and adopts it, and names him Daphnis. Around the same time, another shepherd, Dryantas, finds too an abandoned baby girl and adopts it, naming her Chloe. Daphnis and Chloe grow together and, passing the threshold of puberty feel the buzz of first love. They do not know yet what is happening to them, until a beautiful woman who desires Daphnis, initiates him into the secrets of love. Daphnis in turn initiates Chloe, too. In the meantime, it is revealed that Daphnis is the son of Lord Dionysiofani, and Chloe daughter of a ruler of the island, Megacles.
Daphnis and Chloe
1931
5.7In Lesvos, shepherd Lamonas someday finds an abandoned baby boy suckling a goat and adopts it, and names him Daphnis. Around the same time, another shepherd, Dryantas, finds too an abandoned baby girl and adopts it, naming her Chloe. Daphnis and Chloe grow together and, passing the threshold of puberty feel the buzz of first love. They do not know yet what is happening to them, until a beautiful woman who desires Daphnis, initiates him into the secrets of love. Daphnis in turn initiates Chloe, too. In the meantime, it is revealed that Daphnis is the son of Lord Dionysiofani, and Chloe daughter of a ruler of the island, Megacles.
Daphnis and Chloe
1931
4.5The relationship between a doctor and his wife gets broken after he came home late last night. Meanwhile, he has to pretend to be a dressmaker because of a misunderstanding between him and the furious fiancé of an old girlfriend he met.
The tailor
1967
4.5The relationship between a doctor and his wife gets broken after he came home late last night. Meanwhile, he has to pretend to be a dressmaker because of a misunderstanding between him and the furious fiancé of an old girlfriend he met.
The tailor
1967
7.5Thomas, the owner of an electrical appliances store, is having business problems due to his short-fuse temper and bad luck.
The Incredible
1970
7.5Thomas, the owner of an electrical appliances store, is having business problems due to his short-fuse temper and bad luck.
The Incredible
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Το λιμάνι των δακρύων
1929
5.5Two men intend to make a "secret" trip to Paris alone and live it up in order to escape the stranglehold of their wives.
10 Days in Paris
1962
6.8Lampros, a successful journalist and his wife, Christina, who also writes in a magazine, have been constantly confused. In each of these battles, nostalgia refers to Stephanos, a youth of love. One night Lambros meets Stephanos, who after many years does not respond to his old image. But he avoids telling his wife, not to be disappointed. She thinks she is beating her, hiding her where she was all night and starting the divorce process. When I add to all this and the flirting of a young lawyer, Christina's mother will take over the problem ...
The Deeds of Jealousy
1971
5.9The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present everywhere, he is able to eavesdrop on what's going on: his youngest daughter lives it up with some Teddy boys, his eldest do not intend to marry her fiancé, his son has become a crook, and his wife a gambler.
Descended from Heaven
1965
6.0Two young children discover love with the advent of adolescence.
Daphnis and Chloe: The Young Lovers
1969
6.0Two young children discover love with the advent of adolescence.
Daphnis and Chloe: The Young Lovers
1969
7.4Although a gas station employee, a young man has a great idea about himself and chases brides with a great dowry, ignoring his neighbor who loves him.
The Saucy Guy
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Δυο μάννες στο σταυρό του πόνου
1962
9.0A reserve officer spends his vacation in Poros and falls madly in love with a girl. However, his uncle informs him that he must leave for the Korean War. During his absence, his beloved refuses to obey her father's orders to marry another man and takes refuge in a monastery, where she falls seriously ill. The officer returns from the war, and his beloved dies in his arms. He will willingly follow her into death.
Away from the World
1958
9.0A reserve officer spends his vacation in Poros and falls madly in love with a girl. However, his uncle informs him that he must leave for the Korean War. During his absence, his beloved refuses to obey her father's orders to marry another man and takes refuge in a monastery, where she falls seriously ill. The officer returns from the war, and his beloved dies in his arms. He will willingly follow her into death.
Away from the World
1958
10.0Giannis Vogiatzis is Tilemahos, a young man with a very strict mother. One day he decides to get married.
Mom's Child
1970
7.8Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their loved ones.
Poverty can be bearable while living well
1958
7.8Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their loved ones.
Poverty can be bearable while living well
1958
5.6Two James Bond fans, Kosmas and Damianos Bouralas, own a wine bar and hold a 5% stake in an industry. Mikes Pararas, who owns 47.5% of the same industry, is a wealthy man who, together with his partner Telis Hatzineftis, exploits and mistreats the employees and steals from the company. The arrival of the owner of the other 47.5%, Rita Pavlidi, will help the two friends take control of the business, after Chrysopodaros' misdeeds are revealed.
Agents 005 Against Goldenfoot
1965
5.6Two James Bond fans, Kosmas and Damianos Bouralas, own a wine bar and hold a 5% stake in an industry. Mikes Pararas, who owns 47.5% of the same industry, is a wealthy man who, together with his partner Telis Hatzineftis, exploits and mistreats the employees and steals from the company. The arrival of the owner of the other 47.5%, Rita Pavlidi, will help the two friends take control of the business, after Chrysopodaros' misdeeds are revealed.
Agents 005 Against Goldenfoot
1965
6.3Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renouncing their sweethearts just to get a greater chance at a lucrative love. But, what does the girl have to say about their risky business?
Poor Bums
1961
6.3Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renouncing their sweethearts just to get a greater chance at a lucrative love. But, what does the girl have to say about their risky business?
Poor Bums
1961
4.5The young daughter of a wealthy manufacturer marries a poor young man, whose house stands in the way of her father's grandiose plans.
The girl of rage
1967




