Hristos Tsaganeas

Acting

Hristos Tsaganeas

Born 1906-07-02 · Braila, Romania

Christos Tsaganeas was born in Braila, Romania on July 2, 1906. He came from a wealthy Greek and aristocratic family and from a young age he showed great love for the theater. His parents, however, had demanded that he finish some university school, and that's why when he graduated from the Greek high school in Romania, they sent him to Athens for academic studies. He initially enrolled in Medicine but soon dropped out and went to Law from which he never got a degree. The reason for this event was his acquaintance and love for the actress Nitsa Vitsori, seven years older than him, for whose sake he abandoned his studies and began to appear in the theater. When Nitsa divorced her first husband, Giorgis Vitsoris, Tsaganeas not only married her but also enrolled in the Drama School of the National Theater to get a proper foundation and an acting degree. For this career choice, he had several fights with his parents, with whom he finally broke up and cut off his funding. Another version cites his participation in the political movement of the Archio-Marxists, in which his wife Nitsa also participated, as the reason for the elimination. This development led him, for some time, to live on a boat in the port of Piraeus while he was forced to take part in performances of itinerant troupes, which at that time were underestimated. "There are few theaters, few theater squares, many practitioners", as he used to say. During the German-Italian occupation he actively participated in the National Resistance through the ranks of the EAM together with his wife Nitsa. During the December 1944, his name was involved in the execution of the actress Eleni Papadakis by OPLA. As a member of the board of the National Militia of the EAM Theater, he had put his signature - together with his colleagues, Emilio Veakis, Theodoros Moridis, Spyros Patrikios and Panos Karavousiano - for the death sentence of Eleni Papadakis, who had been accused of dowry. A year later, Christos Tsaganeas was in danger of losing his life in the armed attack against the then president of SEH, Spyros Patrikios.

Acting credits

Θυσία poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Θυσία

1966

Death Will Return poster
7.0

Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza’s niece and her fiancé, Norton’s physician, and the hotel staff. Inspector Fox and his assistant, policeman Petridis, are assigned the investigation of the crime. While the suspects’ questioning is under way, some more people arrive at the hotel: detective Tilemachos Christofis with his assistant Aliki, and lieutenant Karalis, a sworn enemy of the victim, complicating things even more.

Death Will Return

1961

Crime in Kolonaki poster
6.1

When the painter Nasos Karnezis is found dead and the police arrests Floras, the stockbroker Dimitris, his son from his first marriage, decides to find out who the real murderer is. Along with a tow of his friends, reporter Makris and the politician Delios research the case and they suspect Myrto, daughter of captain Kapsis who was executed by the Germans during the years of Occupation, after Karnezis had turned him in. Dimitris and Myrto, whose innocent has become clear in the meantime, fall in love with each other.

Crime in Kolonaki

1960

Apollo Goes on Holiday poster
5.8

Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.

Apollo Goes on Holiday

1968

Αγνούλα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Αγνούλα

1939

Five Thousand Lies poster
9.5

A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the theft, the professor dies from joy, and the two students decide to return the figurine to its owner. There they meet his daughters, to whom they tell numerous lies. In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was part of a wager between the professor and the collector, and the two students fall in love with the latter's daughters.

Five Thousand Lies

1966

Manolios Strikes Again poster
6.0

Manolios falls in love with the daughter of his wealthy boss. Her fiancé pushes him into a union confrontation with his boss, and Manolios ends up getting fired. He gets a job at a nightclub where Zambetas sings, and there a kind girl falls in love with him. He soon becomes a famous folk singer, and his old boss's daughter flirts with him. However, he has made it clear which girl truly loves him.

Manolios Strikes Again

1971

We Have Only One Life poster
7.9

A bank teller discovers an accounting error, becomes rich and lives his life like he's never lived it.

We Have Only One Life

1958

Σέργιος και Άννα poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Σέργιος και Άννα

1971

Maiden's Cheek poster
7.0

Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.

Maiden's Cheek

1959

Aspasia's dollars poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Aspasia's dollars

1967

Μια γυναίκα φεύγει poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μια γυναίκα φεύγει

1971

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

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

Είναι βαρύς ο πόνος μου poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Είναι βαρύς ο πόνος μου

1965

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

Murder Backstage poster
6.9

A journalist helps, famed policeman Becca, to solve the murder of a theater actress.

Murder Backstage

1960

Betrayed love poster
6.3

Anna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, where she will spend a year with another aunt. When she returns to Athens, her aunt will try to marry her off to a rich young man, but she is still in love with Stratos.

Betrayed love

1962

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

Κάθε ναυάγιο και μια κόλασι poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Κάθε ναυάγιο και μια κόλασι

1971

Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος poster
7.0

A poor young man, who bears the surname of a rich shipowner, meets and falls in love with a rich heir. She does not believe that this is a coincidence and their relationship is built on a lie.

Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος

1965

Ο άνεμος του μίσους poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο άνεμος του μίσους

1954

Sidewalk poster
7.0

Angelina is a prostitute. Her only friends are her colleague Nana and coachman Minas. George suddenly enters her life and confesses his love to her. Angelina begins to believe that her life can change, not suspecting that George has approached her on behalf of the drug dealer Nino.

Sidewalk

1962

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