Christos Kalavrouzos

Acting

Christos Kalavrouzos

Place of birth

Kalavrouza, Etoloakarnania, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

Christos Kalavrouzos (real name: Christos Kalavrouziotis) is a Greek actor. He was born and raised in the village of Kalavrouza in Nafpaktia. During his artistic career, he collaborated with the biggest names in the field of directing and acting. He has played in works of international and local drama, both in the 15 years he was at the National Theater and in independent - private theater. He has appeared in many theatrical performances, in films and in television serials, since the late 1950s. His best known appearances are in the film Mathe paid mou grammatas (1981) and in the theatrical creation To melo mas tsirko (1973). He was married to actress Dimitra Zeza. (Source: Wikipedia)

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

Like a Prairie Cock in Wyoming poster
5.3

The coming of age of a young student, through a series of events and erotic-emotional regressions, the same time that his mother is pregnant, without a father, while his boss falls in 'old age. "

Like a Prairie Cock in Wyoming

1996

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

Before the End of the World poster
7.3

The universe is a unified and indivisible entity. There are nο independent parts. There is just the WHOLE, the ΟΝΕ. One of the laws that forms its framework is that of compensation. If some occurrence or some action οn some organizational level of the universe disrupts the order, then compensatory mechanisms are activated that re-establish the balance. The direction in which our civilization appears to be headed threatens to disrupt the balance in this corner of the universe. The Law is activated in the form of «Pressures» οn a group of scientists that endanger not only their minds but even their very lives…

Before the End of the World

1996

Borderline poster
5.8

Centres on two brothers, Stelios and Yannis. The impulsive Stelios skips their small town, deserts from the army, and is thought dead, until Yannis, now a city cop, recognizes his name on the papers of an illegal immigrant seaman. He begins a search for his lost brother, a search that takes him across many borders: between past and present, between Greece and its neighbouring countries, between one identity and another.

Borderline

1994

Moon Runway poster
9.0

A police comedy/fantasy adventure with witches, ghosts, beautiful fairies and a cop who tries to solve a mysterious murder.

Moon Runway

1994

1980s · 7 titles

The Descent of the Nine poster
5.8

Summer 1949: end of the civil war in Greece. The last band of guerrillas of the Democratic Army is forced to abandon Mount Taygetus and to head for the sea. Everything behind them has collapsed and they can count on help from no one. In this long, desperate and aimless march, the group will end up by being annihilated by the National Army and the armed villagers.

The Descent of the Nine

1984

Thanasis and the Cursed Serpent poster
5.1

A peaceful little man who suffers all kinds of abuse from his mother-in-law, struggles desperately to have a child. And what doesn't he do to become fertile: he swallows mandrakes and drinks infusions with strange herbs, he prays to God to give him a child, and he jumps over fires to drive away the demons. But when all this fails, the great conflict with the "cursed snake," his evil mother-in-law, ensues.

Thanasis and the Cursed Serpent

1982

Educate Yourself My Son poster
7.6

The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.

Educate Yourself My Son

1981

The City Never Sleeps poster
7.7

An old rocker return back home after 20 years to investigate the death of his brother

The City Never Sleeps

1984

The Noose poster
7.8

In the fall of 1948, shortly before the end of the civil war in Greece, six young leftists traveled to Athens, boarded a plane to Thessaloniki, and forced the pilot to fly them to neighboring Yugoslavia, where they would seek political asylum along with other comrades. Their plan went off without a hitch and went down in history as the first hijacking ever.

The Noose

1987

The years of the storm poster
6.2

The years of the storm are Greek historical - dramatic - adventurous film of 1984, directed and directed by Giorgos Tzimas . Starring Michalis Stamatakis Katerina Koutroupida and Menelaos Daflos. Two fighters, cut up in the mountains, after the defeat of the Democratic Army in 1949, are trying to return to their homes.

The years of the storm

1984

Another one for Korydallos poster
5.8

Trapped in a vicious cycle, three drug pushers who want out, find themselves forever indebted to a hardened drug kingpin, who, in turn, is dependent on the protection of a corrupt police officer. Can they escape from the inevitable?

Another one for Korydallos

1983

1970s · 12 titles

Days of '36 poster
6.4

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

Days of '36

1972

Οι σατανάδες της νύχτας poster
9.0

The film tells the tale of three men, who have murdered the rich mother-in-law of one of them and four members of her family in order to steal her fortune. An unemployed man decides to kill his mother-in-law in order to take her property. But when, with the help of two accomplices, he sets fire to her house, his wife and their two children will die with her.

Οι σατανάδες της νύχτας

1972

Okay, man poster
5.5

A singer, who goes to America hoping to make a career, finds himself involved in a drug trafficking case. He refuses to join this ring, and in his effort he is supported by a girl supports him in his efforts. The young man manages, with great difficulty and the help of a ruthless and self-serving manager, to make a career for himself and become rich. However, when threats from the mafia are added to the exploitation by his manager, the now successful singer abandons everything to return to Greece.

Okay, man

1974

Souliotes poster
7.0

Souliotes learn that Ali pasha is planning to attack. Photos Tzavellas and his men are ready to defend their freedom. They repel repeatedly Ali's army but after a prolonged siege the decide that they are not to be taken alive. All women go to Zaloggo where they fall off the cliffs dancing, while the men decide to die exploding a convent at Kougi mountain.

Souliotes

1972

What a Waste! poster
5.6

Marios was the abuser convicted. The day he is released from prison meets Danae, which he grants a villa and a luxury car with the assertion that performs the last wish of the deceased husband, for whose account was fraud.

What a Waste!

1970

Papaflessas poster
6.5

The life and work of the hero of 1821 Papaflessas that during the liberation struggle of the Greeks against the Turks, revolutionizing the elders and the world to declare war!!! Up to the heroic battle Maniaki.... A movie that shows the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks for their homeland and their freedom

Papaflessas

1971

The Trial of the Judges poster
6.9

A true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant acquittal during the three men regency council, when king Othon of Greece was a minor. The cast of the film was enormous, with almost half of the theatrical people participating.

The Trial of the Judges

1974

Ο Επισκέπτης poster
8.0

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Ο Επισκέπτης

1973

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi? poster
6.7

A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?

1971

Boom Taratajum poster
5.7

Two itinerant actress, the Vlakometros and Poniridis, arrive at Adira, a city of ancient Greece groaning under the despotic rule of the tyrant Hippias, to give a performance. Because Vlakometros is identical to Hippias, the dissident intellectuals will try to use it to overthrow the tyrant. A series of incredible comedic misunderstandings and unexpected will follow in this brilliant political satire, which had experienced serious problems with censorship when the Junta was.

Boom Taratajum

1972

Thanasis, Juliet and the sausages poster
6.1

Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is an honest working man who has to support his sister’s family as well, as Maria’s husband is only interested in football. Thanasis is in love with Juliet (Aimilia Ypsilanti), daughter of a rough butcher from Mani, who wants to have her marry a sausage-tycoon.

Thanasis, Juliet and the sausages

1970

Thanasis, Take Your Gun poster
7.4

A wretch jobber tries to find the money to build the house promised to groom, to repay the truck he drives and help a poor girl, who has been eviction, find somewhere to stay.

Thanasis, Take Your Gun

1972

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