Dimitris Katalifos

Acting

Dimitris Katalifos

Born

1954-01-01 (72)

Place of birth

Nea Smyrni, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Dimitris Kataleifos (Greek: Δημήτρης Καταλειφός; born 1954) is a Greek actor and writer. He appeared in more than twenty films since 1978.

Known for

Fault poster
NR

George goes to Athens on the eve of his granddaughter's trial and does everything in his power to help her, in order to atone for everything he had done to her in the past.

Fault

2022

The Minor of Dawn poster
8.2

A Greek series that presents aspects of the lives of folk musicians who formed a rebetiko band during the 1930s-1960s. The title To Minore tis Avgis comes from the song of the same name, with lyrics by Minos Matsas and music by Spyros Peristeris. The series, which premiered on ERT on January 14, 1983, and was completed in two cycles of 14 and 13 episodes respectively, features popular songs by Vamvakaris, Tsitsanis, Papaioannou, Hatzichristou, and others. Antonis Zagouras is a young rebetis who arrives in Athens from Syros in search of fortune. He becomes a member of a rebetiko band and embarks on an exciting journey full of love, success, but also many disappointments, until he gains social and artistic recognition.

The Minor of Dawn

1983

Morphes poster
NR

A man and a boy find themselves in a mysterious forest at night. Together, they must find their way towards the light.

Morphes

2024

Brides poster
6.3

A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the third-class voyagers. But along the way, she meets a young American photographer who is returning from the Middle East where he was snapping shots of the war in Smyrna, 1922. Her honesty, pride, and beauty attract the attention of the American who falls in love with her. Tribulations abound during the voyage, following the dramas of several unfortunate young women upon whom nasty characters preyed, as Nikki struggles with her feelings for the photographer.

Brides

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Τα Πέτρινα Χρόνια

1986

Safe Sex poster
6.5

A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.

Safe Sex

1999

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Fault poster
NR

George goes to Athens on the eve of his granddaughter's trial and does everything in his power to help her, in order to atone for everything he had done to her in the past.

Fault

2022

Morphes poster
NR

A man and a boy find themselves in a mysterious forest at night. Together, they must find their way towards the light.

Morphes

2024

Rooster poster
NR

A janitor of the Municipality of Athens, determined to give his six-year-old son the future he himself was denied, enrolls him in a private school. But his chase of the “Greek dream” turns into a tragicomic spiral of conflicts, leading to a bitter revelation: perhaps his illusions were all he truly had.

Rooster

2026

Nikos Karouzos – Poems on a Tape Recorder poster
8.0

In the midst of the economic crisis, a persistent researcher delves into the eventful life and the unexplored work of preeminent Greek modernist poet, Nikos Karouzos. Through photos, archives, super 8s, videotapes and memories, he travels back in time accompanying the poet from the traumatic postwar history of Greece to the Academy of Stockholm and all the way to the 1921 rebellion of Kronstadt in order to find a lost film footage.

Nikos Karouzos – Poems on a Tape Recorder

2021

Last Visit poster
NR

Last Visit is a tribute to Lefteris Voyatzis (1945 - 2013), an indisputable milestone in the modern history of Greek theater that defined people, projects, and our theatrical perception. He defined and was defined by the Theater of Odou Kykladon. At this place he left work, memories, and senses that still intensively exist. Through this strange dreamy visit he returns to favourable theatrical place for a proper farewell to his friends and colleagues.

Last Visit

2021

All the Pretty Little Horses poster
4.6

In the wake of a disaster, Alice and her husband Petros take their young son Panagiotis to a provincial seaside town, seeking refuge. Working temporary jobs, Alice and Petros try to put their lives back together so they can return home to Athens. When Alice begins to realise the plan is not working – or worse, that it may not even exist – the distance between her and Petros begins to grow.

All the Pretty Little Horses

2021

Mahi poster
NR

Mahi, an 80-years old woman, is a former military officer who underwent gender reassignment and became a singer. 50 years later, she returns from Germany to Greece to reconnect with her daughter in order to rebuild their relationship.

Mahi

2025

Nothing Holier Than A Dolphin poster
6.5

Two fishermen find a Dolphin accidentally caught in their nets. The Dolphin, on its turn, finds a fisherman drowning in the water and tries to save him. In this small village on the Mediterranean, an ancient myth unexpectedly comes to life.

Nothing Holier Than A Dolphin

2022

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 2 titles

Series credits

The Minor of Dawn poster
8.2

A Greek series that presents aspects of the lives of folk musicians who formed a rebetiko band during the 1930s-1960s. The title To Minore tis Avgis comes from the song of the same name, with lyrics by Minos Matsas and music by Spyros Peristeris. The series, which premiered on ERT on January 14, 1983, and was completed in two cycles of 14 and 13 episodes respectively, features popular songs by Vamvakaris, Tsitsanis, Papaioannou, Hatzichristou, and others. Antonis Zagouras is a young rebetis who arrives in Athens from Syros in search of fortune. He becomes a member of a rebetiko band and embarks on an exciting journey full of love, success, but also many disappointments, until he gains social and artistic recognition.

The Minor of Dawn

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Τα Πέτρινα Χρόνια

1986

Flame and Wind poster
NR

In 1968, Georgios Papandreou is having an operation in a central hospital in Athens. Kyveli, separated for years from the great love of her life, goes to see him. How did these two eminent figures of Greek history come together? One in politics, one in theater? It all begins a long time ago...

Flame and Wind

2022

The word you don't say poster
8.0

The story takes place in a small town in Crete with the White Mountains as a backdrop. A family sees their lives change when they suddenly learn that their 6-year-old son Pavlis, whom they consider a musical genius, has been diagnosed with autism. The series is based on the Keshet series "The A Word".

The word you don't say

2016

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Προς Οφρύνιο

1984

Behind the camera