
Acting
Manos Vakousis
Born
1958-01-01 (68)
Place of birth
Santorini, Greece
Known for
Acting
Credits
46 titles
Manos Vakousis (Greek: Μάνος Βακούσης, Santorini 1958) is a Greek actor, who is known to the general Greek public for many theater, film and television productions. In his long-term theatrical career, he has been awarded the First Prize for a male role at the Thessaloniki Festival in the film Byron – Ballad of a Possessed by N. Koundouros (1992). With the 2nd male role award at the Thessaloniki Festival in the film Craftsmanship of Dreams by T. Boulmetis (1990). Manos Vamvakousis has also collaborated with important directors. Examples of his work in the theater are the shows Augustos (2017), Ploutos (2018), O abigier (2017), Richard III (2015). In cinema, he participated in the films The …
Known for
4.0Lampsi is one of the most popular series on Greek television. It was broadcast for more than 14 years by the Greek television station ANT1 nearly every day. This TV series was played on Greek television station ANT1 and began broadcasting on 16 September 1991 and the last episode was broadcast on 29 July 2005. In total 3,457 episodes were broadcast in 14 years. The script was written by Nikos Foskolos and on the filming of the episodes directors were Nikos Foskolos, Spyros Foskolos and other five directors. All the actors and the actresses, who were performed roles on TV series, were 1.500 who were already well-known or became well-known from their acting careers on the TV series.
The Shine
1991
8.3A series of murders alarm the police authorities, as strange symbolisms are traced to every crime scene. The eccentric professor of criminology Dimitris Lainis is asked to shed some light on the mystery.
The Other Me
2019
7.3Arbitrary! Two families who coincidentally have the same name and live in the same apartment building. One is headed by a failed lawyer, Andreas Hatzigiorgis, who is supported by his wealthy wife, while the other is headed by a restaurateur who harasses his employees, Kostas Hatzigiorgis. The two families are often at odds as one wants to destroy the other, creating unspeakable situations.
Οι Αυθαίρετοι
1989
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Δια ταύτα
2013
8.7No synopsis available yet.
Το σημάδι του έρωτα
1998
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Δεληγιάννειον Παρθεναγωγείον
2007
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
4.0When a series of brutal murders begins, Christos is the only person who can explain what happened. He starts narrating a story to two police officers, a story in which nobody is who they seem to be and they all switch roles and positions up until the final twist. A story about deception, following a narrative that manipulates till the very end.
Saison Morte
2021
4.5Panos, a city doctor, relocates to a remote Greek village to offer his services to the underserved community. It's love at first sight when he sees Danae, who lives in isolation and with a mysterious skin condition. Determined to cure her, Panos will soon discover Danae is not the helpless princess he thought she was, and time is of the essence for both of them.
Entwined
2020
NRIn 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century. until the present day. Despite the fact that the Revolution of 1821 constitutes the founding act of the modern Greek state, as a subject matter it is underrepresented in national film production. This is one of the points on which the research looks, which simultaneously examines the periods of concentration of films on the subject of the Revolution or, respectively, the periods of its collective silence. The purpose of the documentary is to study the ideological discourse and the cinematic language of the films with the theme of 1821, in order to highlight the function of the cinema as a carrier of Public History and as a factor in shaping the collective historical consciousness.
1821 at the Cinema
2021
7.2A veteran late-night radio announcer, on the night he turns 50, realizes with embarrassment that he is no longer one of the young and unravels his life in the wind.
Athens Midnight Radio
2024
2010s · 11 titles
7.8A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story that features renowned French actor François Cluzet in a key-role.
The Other Me
2017
5.0In America, 100 years before the moon landing of Apollo 11, the bellicose bemoan their fates because the federal War is over and they all have fallen into inaction. They are reminiscent of the glorious past and feeling uncomfortable with the mournful clothes remaining unused in the closets and the green grass and the cotton growing back in the fields, as Verne writes characteristically! At that exact moment, the president of the Gun Club, Impey Barbicane, provided the solution by announcing that he has a plan to fire a cannonball to the Moon, an act that also constitutes the first substantial contact of man with the satellite of the Earth and will glorify the 36 United States of America all over the world.
From the Earth to the Moon
2013
5.7A journalist returns to a dark, virtually unrecognizable Athens to investigate his best friend's murder. The victim's girlfriend gives him a hand but they soon realize they either have to abandon their investigation or become cogs in a powerful machine. Marionettes is a story of mystery, shot in an unknown, dark and full of temptations Athens.
Marionetes
2015
6.4Goran and Julia, Russian and Albanian, are two teenagers immigrant second generation, two children with dreams and ambition to escape the environment grew. Things for both young people will become even more complicated when their paths meet. Love is lightning, but the two worlds collide, threatening to destroy the first thrill they feel about each other.
Nobody
2011
5.9A couple hires a young migrant to be their surrogate mother and moves her to their beautiful villa. While the man is away for work, the woman and the girl start to bond and enjoy the couple's wealthy way of life. But behind her forced cheerfulness, the woman seems more and more depressed. After a few drinks with the girl, she goes for a drive. The next morning, her husband gets a call: his wife is dead, her burned body was found in her wrecked car.
Love Me Not
2017
NRIn the abandoned airport of Ellinikon, a man's peaceful solitude is disrupted by bustling activity, and his ticket out might lead him right back to his starting place.
Ellinikon
2019
6.5Amongst the constantly talking animals of a herd, the basic rule of normality is the theater of conversation. When a young animal loses its voice and goes into hiding, the talking herd can’t accept its weakness and follows the rule, speaking to it using monologues. The young animal remains silent and the talking herd stands confused and unable to decide whether it’s really sick or just pretending. But as the silent, isolated animal struggles to get its voice back, the talking animals surround its cage and the most distrustful of them attacks.
Silent
2016
6.7A monk of a Greek monastery, tries to cope with the unbearable sadness and loneliness , when he loses his little dog, the only companion he has got.
The Right Pocket of the Robe
2018
A cinematic portrait of director Nikos Koundouros, this documentary explores his artistic journey through the voices of renowned Greek artists, tracing the experiences and influences that shaped his visionary work.
Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros
2010
NRIn a post nuclear era where owning books is a felony and the intellectual community is persecuted, a group of scientists is trying in vain to find a way to save the world. A Professor's assistant will be called upon to make the most difficult decision of his life
Amendment 10/60
2013
5.0The fall and rise of an ordinary man and the oddity from the attic. When Manos, A 50 year old man gets divorced with his wife, he moves into a new house in order to start over. Quite unexpectedly, he discovers something that will change his life forever. And rock on. A short film about parenthood, divorce, glitter.
The Attic
2011
2000s · 5 titles
4.6Based on true events, a young man raised in a cruel and oppressive family environment, leaves Albania with the dream of becoming a rock star and living a better life. His reckless character and his youth passions lead him to commit a murder in Athens. Chased by everyone, even by his own self, he is imprisoned under the harshest conditions. With the help of a German doctor, he learns to feel sympathy for others and guilt for his crime. His deep remorse will lead him from darkness to light.
Eduart
2006
7.0A new teacher comes by transfer to an elementary school in Athens. He will distinguish a student which can't read, write or do arithmetic, and will help to discover some other talents he has, and will give him an incentive to try to learn.
To kanarini podilato
2000
6.6As the lights flicker on a warm August night, amidst vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he just met at a phone booth, while strolling around the city's quiet night streets.
Cheap Smokes
2001
6.2His advanced studies in philosophy have caused Stephanos to view all people as his inferiors. When he is discharged from the -obligatory in Greece- army service, he thinks the world belongs to him. In reality all that does belong to him are debts left by his mother who has just died and rejection by his formerly devoted girlfriend. Nikos, an old high school classmate, reappears in his life.
The Heart of the Beast
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Snow White Syndrome
2008
1990s · 7 titles
4.4In a nonaligned country, where a civil conflict is raging, a team of photographers follows a mercenary war lord, whose men wreak havoc among enemies and innocents alike. The story is a modern version of the tragedy Antigone, in a time when TV and the other media present unrelieved visions of war and bloody mayhem.
The Photographers
1998
4.6Poet Lord Byron decides to fight with the Greek revolutionaries in Missolonghi against the Turks but instead the glorious battle wrestles with fever and his own demons.
Byron: Ballad for a Daemon
1992
9.2"4th century AD and a brilliant craftsman of Dionysus, Timothy, organizes a performance of Euripides' Bacchae, rousing the people against the emperor. Lazarus, the Cappadocian, is sent to suppress the rebellion and arrest the heretic. We are in the years of the total establishment of Christianity, in a climate full of sects, conspiracies, conflicts of power and personal ambitions, in the city of Antioch, which was the last cradle of the Greek education of the Gentiles."
Two Suns in the Sky
1991
6.01950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ex-wonder-child of movies, who now runs an agency for extras. At first, Lakis is surprised by the prince's proposal, but finally decides to try his luck on the stage of the legendary theater.
Acropol
1996
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Άδης
1996
9.0Andreas, a 45-year-old widower and architect, tells the coroner of events leading to his young daughter's death.
The Bewitched
1995
8.0In a dystopian society after an unexpected epidemic citizens can't have dreams. Only few people are privillaged to dream. They operate small underground companies where they can have other people dreams.
The Dream Factory
1990
1980s · 8 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς
1986
NRNiki, a feminist, wants to do the men's jobs in the neighborhood where she lives. So she sets up drag queen traps for the painter and the plumber and she goes in their place. But to her bad luck she runs into Niko, the local folk charmer with a pigtail, and falls in love with him. So from the neighborhood dragoness she transforms into Juliet...
Η Δράκαινα
1987
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Ένας μάγκας που δεν πάτησε το τρένο
1988
8.3Giannis is a subversive young man who rebels against any social institution or authority. Unemployed by conviction, he cohabits with his German friend Ilze, who supports him, helps his arrogant uncle , a fallen aristocrat, with his drug smuggling, and becomes friends with a Pontian Turk, Mustapha. The latter has entered Greece illegally and follows Giannis to Athens, hoping to find his Greek grandmother, who is none other than Giannis' grandmother as well. Mustapha steals the hearty of Ilze, whom he entertains with tales of his exploits, but the uncle turns them over to the police, and so they are truly in a tight squeeze. They get out of doing time, despite it all, and leave for Turkey, but they stray into Albania, where they are arrested and sentenced to manual labor.
Two Turkish Eggs
1987
7.2Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.
The Woman Who Dreamed
1988
NRThe Fanouris, who's dream is to catch the 13s, to do the grocery store Super Markets. The imagined wife. The modern daughter and a whole world of the neighborhood with their problems, their differences, their love and their plates.
of whack
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Αστυνόμος Τσαχπίνης
1987
NRA young beauty who appears like an apparition in the most unlikely places, at the most unlikely moments, turns the life of a young civil engineer upside down, with great success in gambling and especially at the racetrack...
Female Stinger
1985
Series credits
4.0Lampsi is one of the most popular series on Greek television. It was broadcast for more than 14 years by the Greek television station ANT1 nearly every day. This TV series was played on Greek television station ANT1 and began broadcasting on 16 September 1991 and the last episode was broadcast on 29 July 2005. In total 3,457 episodes were broadcast in 14 years. The script was written by Nikos Foskolos and on the filming of the episodes directors were Nikos Foskolos, Spyros Foskolos and other five directors. All the actors and the actresses, who were performed roles on TV series, were 1.500 who were already well-known or became well-known from their acting careers on the TV series.
The Shine
1991
4.0Lampsi is one of the most popular series on Greek television. It was broadcast for more than 14 years by the Greek television station ANT1 nearly every day. This TV series was played on Greek television station ANT1 and began broadcasting on 16 September 1991 and the last episode was broadcast on 29 July 2005. In total 3,457 episodes were broadcast in 14 years. The script was written by Nikos Foskolos and on the filming of the episodes directors were Nikos Foskolos, Spyros Foskolos and other five directors. All the actors and the actresses, who were performed roles on TV series, were 1.500 who were already well-known or became well-known from their acting careers on the TV series.
The Shine
1991
8.3A series of murders alarm the police authorities, as strange symbolisms are traced to every crime scene. The eccentric professor of criminology Dimitris Lainis is asked to shed some light on the mystery.
The Other Me
2019
7.3Arbitrary! Two families who coincidentally have the same name and live in the same apartment building. One is headed by a failed lawyer, Andreas Hatzigiorgis, who is supported by his wealthy wife, while the other is headed by a restaurateur who harasses his employees, Kostas Hatzigiorgis. The two families are often at odds as one wants to destroy the other, creating unspeakable situations.
Οι Αυθαίρετοι
1989
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Δια ταύτα
2013
8.7No synopsis available yet.
Το σημάδι του έρωτα
1998
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Δεληγιάννειον Παρθεναγωγείον
2007
8.3The series is based on real events. It takes us to Kythera from 1906 to 1909 and chronicles one of the largest mass murders the country has ever known. There, we meet the central figure of the story, Antonis, a peaceful shoemaker. A lovable young man, until he is unjustly slandered. The outcry of the local community forces him to leave. He makes a new start in Piraeus. Again, however, his attempt to escape falls on deaf ears. History repeats itself in the big city, filling Antonis with bitterness and anger. Now, there is only one way left for him: Revenge.
17 Threads
2024
8.0The series describes the life of the poet Kostas Karyotakis. It follows his life from his teenage years and sheds light on unknown aspects of his artistic and professional life. A special place is occupied by the part about his relationship with the poet Maria Polydouri. Through the lives of the two protagonists, the politically and socially turbulent period of the 1910s and 1920s is projected.
Karyotakis
2009
7.0No synopsis available yet.
I Hameni Anoixi
1995
