
Acting
Manos Vakousis
Born 1958-01-01 · Santorini, Greece
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 Right Pocket of Rasos (2018), Eteros Ego (2016), Alyti/Entwined (2019). On television, he participated in the series Other Ego: Lost Souls (2019), Other Ego: Catharsis (2020).
Acting credits
7.3Something 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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς
1986
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
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
No synopsis available yet.
Απομνημονεύματα Κολοκοτρώνη
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7.9A 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
5.0The 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
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
6.1His 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
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
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
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
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
9.0Andreas, a 45-year-old widower and architect, tells the coroner of events leading to his young daughter's death.
The Bewitched
1995
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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Αστυνόμος Τσαχπίνης
1987
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
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
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
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
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
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