Nitsa Tsaganea

Acting

Nitsa Tsaganea

Born 1902-02-17 · Athens, Greece

Nitsa Tsaganea (February 17, 1902 – April 30, 2002) was a Greek theater and film actress and a fighter of the National Resistance. She was born in Athens as Eleni Laskari. Her first husband was the actor Giorgis Vitsoris and her second husband was also the actor Christos Tsaganea. Her best known films are A Hero in Slippers and The Germans Are Back. She ended up poor and her rent was paid by Dimitris Horn. She was buried in the 1st Cemetery, next to her beloved daughter, also the actress Liana Vitsori. (Source: Wikipedia)

Acting credits

Θυσία poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Θυσία

1966

Mrs. Midwife poster
7.9

The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village. A retired doctor decides to settle down with his family in his wife's village and opens a medical practice. However, he gradually comes into conflict with the village midwife and her unorthodox medical practices, namely eye-opening and amulets. The midwife's son, a medical student in Athens, comes to the village for vacation, falls in love with the doctor's daughter, who tries to reduce her influence over the villagers.

Mrs. Midwife

1961

Αγνούλα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Αγνούλα

1939

Δάκρυα και Διπλοπενιές poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Δάκρυα και Διπλοπενιές

1969

The Voice of the Heart poster
6.3

Mr. Spyros is released from prison after having served time for the murder of his wife's lover. He accidentally meets a young couple who want to get married, but the mother of the girl is against the marriage. When Mr. Spyros realizes that the girl is his daughter and her mother his wife, he makes an important decision.

The Voice of the Heart

1943

Όταν το μίσος κυβερνά poster
10.0

A couple in love returns to Greece from France and has plans for their future.

Όταν το μίσος κυβερνά

1959

A Rich Without Money poster
4.2

A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money .

A Rich Without Money

1967

A Hero in His Slippers poster
7.4

A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited by his future son-in-law who informs him that he is going to immigrate to Australia. On the same day, his cousin Apostolos pays him a visit as well and tells him that the government intending to honor him has decided to construct his statue and place it at the small square in front of his house.

A Hero in His Slippers

1958

Wrong Path poster
8.0

Christina and Chrysoula are two teenage friends in Zakynthos and they are completely different as characters. Christina is ugly but honest, while Chrysoula is beautiful, but scandalizes the neighborhood with her provocative behavior. First fully sound-synchronized Greek motion picture. The film was shot in Constantinople by the director of the National Turkish Theatre, Muhsin Ertugrul with a script by Grigorios Xenopoulos, based on his novel by the same name. It was shown as one of the first contemporary Greek films to include full sound and conversation.

Wrong Path

1933

Our Good Angel poster
6.1

After saving the beautiful but frivolous daughter of an austere businessman from an embarrassing situation, a silver-tongued gentleman becomes indispensable to both the firm and her family. Is he, indeed, their good angel?

Our Good Angel

1961

Come on People poster
6.5

Thanasis tries to reunite with his wife.He is having for obstacle her mother, which did not want him because he helps anyone in need with any way he can.

Come on People

1967

Poor Bums poster
6.2

Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renouncing their sweethearts just to get a greater chance at a lucrative love. But, what does the girl have to say about their risky business?

Poor Bums

1961

Doctor Z-Vengos poster
7.3

A blunderer barber ends after a misunderstanding to pretend doctor. However the patients problems aren't medical nature but personally so he helps them.

Doctor Z-Vengos

1968

Laos and Kolonaki poster
5.4

A milkman has his shop at the affluent Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki and is in love with an aristocratic girl.

Laos and Kolonaki

1959

Μας ενώνει ο πόνος poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Μας ενώνει ο πόνος

1964

Four Brides and a Groom poster
7.4

father of four girls of marriageable age brings home a prospective suitor. One daughter agrees to see him but the rest are trying to persuade the. The three friends of the groom are also trying to prevent the ap`to marriage, but eventually fall in love with the three girls and get married.

Four Brides and a Groom

1958

The Devil and His Tail poster
4.5

A charming woman who feels that her husband has grown tired of her and is no longer as interested in her sexually as he once was tries to rekindle his interest by making him believe she has a lover. He is indeed taken in by the bluff, and jealousy motivates and rekindles a relationship that had noticeably cooled.

The Devil and His Tail

1962

Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000' poster
7.8

Vengos studies in a secret agents' academy, dreaming of becoming a great spy like 007. Unfortunately, he can't do anything right, so he wreaks havoc during his final exams.

Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000'

1967

What a Mess poster
6.8

Three short stories satirizing the Greece of “Change” in early 80's. A take-off on the police dramas of Giannis Maris; a satire of the films of the New Greek Cinema; and a satire of the “fustanella (Greek kilt)” films as well.

What a Mess

1982

That's How My Life Ended poster
8.0

The captain Alekos Nikolopoulos doesn't get along with his wife. One day, he receives a letter from a woman he had met before the war who reminds him that she is pregnant.

That's How My Life Ended

1952

Theodore and the gun poster
6.9

An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter.

Theodore and the gun

1962

Separation is a curse. poster
8.0

A girl from the countryside comes to Athens, stays at her aunt's house and falls madly in love with a radio technician. She becomes a popular folk song star, but without hesitation sacrifices her career for the sake of love and marital duties.

Separation is a curse.

1967

One Street Organ, One Life poster
6.1

An organ grinder (Orestis Makris) loses his wife from complications during birth. Distraught by her death, he refuses to take care of the baby and gives it to a family (Lavrentis Dianellos and Nitsa Tsaganea) to raise. The child (Jenny Karezi) is raised comfortably, and her natural father is too embarrassed to meet her - until she falls in love with a poor musician (Petros Fysoun), and her foster parents refuse to accept their relationship.

One Street Organ, One Life

1958

The Big Shark poster
5.8

Vangelis is a lazy guy who's trying to earn some money to marry his beloved, but he is captured by the police who confused him with a wanted man. Eventually, the true crook is arrested and Vangelis returns to his beloved.

The Big Shark

1957