
Acting
Giannis Voglis
Born — Died
1937-09-30 — 2016-04-20
Place of birth
Athens, Greece
Known for
Acting
Credits
58 titles
Giannis Voglis (Greek: Γιάννης Βόγλης; 30 September 1937 – 20 April 2016) was a Greek actor. Voglis was born in Athens and he studied at Pelos Katselis' drama academy. His father was from Asia Minor and his mother from Andros. His first appearance in the theater was in the theatrical performance I anodos tou Artouro in 1961, directed by Karolos Koun. He made his first appearance in film in the movie I Iperifani. He became famous during the movie Koritsia ston ilio (Girls In The Sun) in 1968. His most important role was in the movie To homa vaftike kokkino (The Soil Got Painted Red) by Vassilis Georgiadis. Voglis appeared mainly in theatre along with other famous actors and actresses includ…
Known for
7.0Love, passion, fear, pain, blood. All symbolized by the most intense of colors, red, because people who live with passion live against a red background. In 1967, a soldier in the Greek division leaves Cyprus, losing his teenage love forever. Forty-one years later, he learns that he left much more behind. A woman trapped in a dead marriage, but at the same time caught up in a passionate and forbidden love affair. A doomed love affair that will lead two brothers into a deadly conflict. When one foot steps into passion, the other is surely in the wrong. But only the dead are far from passion and error. The living are doomed to experience the supreme happiness of a love that is born, but also the deep pain left behind by a love that dies, or, even worse, a love that is forever forbidden and unfulfilled. Joy and tears, love and pain, are all painted on a red background!
In Red Background
2008
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Akti Oneiron
1998
7.2Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.
Peter and Paul
1981
7.0Who can forget the sore look of the gypsy. The mismatched love of a young architect with great ambitions and a beautiful gypsy just under twenty. A love that from birth carries, almost insurmountable obstacles, as it comes in complete contrast both with the "properly" environment of Antonis and with the marginal, but tightly closed to its own rules, world of Erato.
Psithiroi Kardias
1997
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Η Δίψα
1990
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
3.0A former opera singer, a priest and a bullfighter meet on the island of Patmos, seeking redemption; their encounter will affect each other’s lives irrevocably.
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
2017
4.9The love of two young people from Crete brings to the fore an old story of a vendetta that separates their families.
Moonstruck
2010
2000s · 2 titles
4.9Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery.
Word of Honour
2001
6.5A successful model abandons the world of fashion to marry her beloved. A little before the wedding, their relationship goes through a serious crisis, when they meet a wealthy and enigmatic man.
Beautiful People
2001
1980s · 10 titles
4.9An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Sweet Country
1987
6.6Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1988
NRDimitris Apostolou is a successful lawyer and former minister. He lives peacefully with his wife and daughter, leading an uneventful family life. Tassos, a dear friend of his, tries to convince him to make his life a little more fun by escaping from the daily grind, but he is not convinced. Dimitris meets Aliki, a journalist by profession, who becomes his lover but also writes his biography. However, someone from his past comes to disturb his peace...
O efialtis
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Επιστροφή απ' το χθες
1989
6.4A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by Venizelos after the Goudi movement, his dispute with the King over Greece's stance in the First World War, the temporary his withdrawal from politics after his defeat in the 1920 elections and the Asia Minor disaster. A biography of the former Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos and the recreation of his acts and the political and social climate in Greece from 1910 to 1927.
Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927
1980
3.0No synopsis available yet.
Ταξίδι... στη Μπανγκόκ
1987
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Σατανάδες στα σχολεία
1982
5.2When he loses his son from overdose, in his school, the outraged father will look for the villains responsible for the loss of his child. At the same time, a journalist covers the narrative report on drugs in schools. With her help, the father will discover the gang leader with whom traded smuggled drinks for himself.
Panic in the Schools
1982
9.0Two brothers, one woman in their lives. Their erotic passion brings them face to face. They compete fiercely through the IT companies they represent. Intrigues and murders strike mercilessly at both sides. The law of "an eye for an eye" prevails...
I goiteia tou hrimatos
1988
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Αντίστροφη μέτρηση
1984
1970s · 8 titles
6.2Maya is a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda, a Bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
A Dream of Passion
1978
6.7A woman murders her disabled husband and informs his brother (with whom she is having an affair), but she realizes she has misdialed and accidentally confessed her crime to a stranger. The caller attempts to blackmail her, but when he tries to rape her she kills him in the struggle. Worse still, her doctor and lover inform her to say nothing because her husband has been dead for eight months and everything that has happened she has imagined.
Frenzy
1971
6.0Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, war was declared, and the Italians attacked the Albanian front on October 28. From an outpost on the Greek-Albanian border, a military truck unexpectedly comes under fire by Italian tanks. Petros, the only one who manages to escape death or captivity, saves a village girl, Maria. However, the Greeks manage to recapture the machine-gun nest, setting free the soldiers who had been pinned down. The platoon in question puts up a hard fight against the Italian invaders, while, at the same time, the Greek army is preparing for a counter-attack, which doesn't take long to happen. Right after, the Italians are forced to fall back; Northern Epirus is recaptured, and the army of the Badoglio is repulsed from the Adriatic.
Hero Bunker
1972
5.7Lena, Alexis and Manolis are ready to run with the money of a bogus company they had founded, when Lena discloses the secret to her childhood friend Dimitris. Alexis and Manolis decide to take him along, in their small private plane. They will land in a deserted spot and try to kill him, while Lena escapes with the plane, which she throws to a swamp along with the money it carries. The people from a lighthouse nearby apprise of the situation and try to get the plane out of the swamp, hoping the money will change their fortune.
The Swamp
1973
6.2Two friends, a military and a journalist, after the collapse of the Albanian front, go to Macedonia to organize resistance against the Bulgarians.
The Brave Bunch
1970
6.2A young woman who is married with an older man, she is getting bored more and more as she feels ignored and unfulfilled. One rainy day she meets a lonely painter at his little beach house.
Blind Date
1970
4.5An impotent husband pushes his wife in the arms of a playboy in order to offer her satisfaction. At the same time a lesbian is flirting with her.
Love without Borders
1970
7.7No synopsis available yet.
I rejected Hitler
1970
1960s · 16 titles
6.2A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.
The barker
1964
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ο 13ος
1967
8.0In the Turkish-occupied Greece of the 18th century, Menousis when the Turks would kill his wife, decides to climb the mountains and along with the thieves to fight for the liberation of his country.
Παγίδα
1962
6.6A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece.
Girls in the Sun
1969
Love story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.
Act of Reprisal
1964
6.9Two rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek homeland. In Thessaly in 1907, a man incites the poor farmers to take over the land they work for the benefit of the landowners. Odysseus (Nikos Kourkoulos), the son of one such landowner (Manos Katrakis), refuses to clash with the farmers.
Blood on the Land
1966
7.2John Halaris is neat antiques and incurable bluffer. After a successful bluff to three friends in Hydra, he returns to Athens. The carefree single life will change completely when they visit a young girl pretending to be his daughter. At first he thinks it is a bluff, but quickly convinced that Gianna is indeed daughter, by his first and only love of his life, Miranda ...
The Bluffer
1969
3.8Mikes, the head of sanitation for a large city, is a ruthless blackmailer who pressures his wife Anna to divorce him so he can marry his mistress. Callous and insensitive as he is, he has made her life a living hell. Anna does not want to divorce him because she is pregnant with his child and fears social condemnation. One night, she is attacked by a man who tries to rape her, but she is saved by a passerby, Alexis.
Dirty city
1965
NRA Greek-American expatriate with six months to live embezzles millions from his New York City company and flees to his hometown of Mytilene. But law and fate never forget, and a chance encounter with love complicates matters.
Erotes sti Lesvo
1967
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες
1966
9.0A gunman, during the Turkish occupation of Greece, collides with the landlords, considering them traitors. But when he learns that belong to the Society of Friends and prepare the Revolution, would become their ally.
The Golden Eagles
1963
5.1A young fisherman who lives in a Greek island save a rich girl from a accident when she is in holidays in island. He will love her and the problems just begun.
A Tough Guy in the Salons
1969
7.0Shortly after the revolution of 1821, somewhere in rebellious Greece, Liakos Bournovas wants to marry Fotini, sister of the powerful Panagiotis Notaras. Notaras, in turn, wants Liakos' sister. When Fotini is captured by the bandit Captain Arvanitis, Liakos frees her. His pride makes him refuse the reward offered by Notaras. Notaras, equally proud, sends one of his subordinates to ask for Liakos' sister's hand in marriage. She commits suicide and Liakos swears revenge. In the ensuing conflict, Notaras is wounded and, before dying, admits his love for Liakos' sister, allowing him to marry Fotini.
The Proud
1962
5.9A new, ambitious prosecutor undertakes a great trial for a murder trial but things get very confused. Instead of the accused, slowly proved that culprit is actually the wife of itself.
I blame the People
1966
8.0A love story about a young composer and a famous singer who lost her memory.
Storm
1965
9.0Vera Kontaxis (Martha Vourtsi), a wife and mother whose husband dies, is forced - in order to feed her son - to leave him in someone else's hands (her godmother, who had raised her from childhood) and leaves with a close friend (Despina Stylianopoulou) for Australia, to find work there as factory workers. Vera's prospect is to return some years later and take the child back from her godmother, to raise it a little better, having made a certain compote in Australia.
the mother's amulet
1965
Series credits
7.0Love, passion, fear, pain, blood. All symbolized by the most intense of colors, red, because people who live with passion live against a red background. In 1967, a soldier in the Greek division leaves Cyprus, losing his teenage love forever. Forty-one years later, he learns that he left much more behind. A woman trapped in a dead marriage, but at the same time caught up in a passionate and forbidden love affair. A doomed love affair that will lead two brothers into a deadly conflict. When one foot steps into passion, the other is surely in the wrong. But only the dead are far from passion and error. The living are doomed to experience the supreme happiness of a love that is born, but also the deep pain left behind by a love that dies, or, even worse, a love that is forever forbidden and unfulfilled. Joy and tears, love and pain, are all painted on a red background!
In Red Background
2008
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Akti Oneiron
1998
7.2Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.
Peter and Paul
1981
7.0Who can forget the sore look of the gypsy. The mismatched love of a young architect with great ambitions and a beautiful gypsy just under twenty. A love that from birth carries, almost insurmountable obstacles, as it comes in complete contrast both with the "properly" environment of Antonis and with the marginal, but tightly closed to its own rules, world of Erato.
Psithiroi Kardias
1997
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Η Δίψα
1990
7.0No synopsis available yet.
O episkeptis tis omihlis
1991
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Η Αγάπη Ήρθε από Μακριά
2002
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Άφρικα
1992
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Ακροβατώντας
2003
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Σύνορα Αγάπης
1999
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Άγγιγμα ψυχής
1998
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Έρωτας Κλέφτης
2000
No synopsis available yet.
Ανατολικός Άνεμος
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Μεθυσμένη πολιτεία
1980
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Μια ζωή για την Έλσα
1995
8.0Journalist Costas Tsarouchas reveals the recipient of the stolen goods from the great theft of the Esterházy collection from the "Museum of Fine Arts" in Budapest, in November 1983, as revealed by evidence from the investigations he conducted.
Silver Dinar
1994
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Manto Mavrogenous
1983
8.0Love, the search for love, the desire for love... Three summers in the bright light of Attica, three sisters in their prime, Maria, Infanta, Katerina. Maria, the eldest, sensual, close to the mysteries of nature, Infanta, fiery but restrained in the face of love, Katerina, thirsty for independence, who chooses the dream. For her, the myth becomes reality, like the mysterious faces of the Polish grandmother and Captain Andreas. Katerina narrates these three summers with imagination, humor and immense tenderness, with a youthful grace that already has a touch of nostalgia.
The straw hats
1995

