Elsa Rizou

Acting

Elsa Rizou

Born

1933-12-10 (92)

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

Elsa Rizou born in 1933 as Eleni Lambropoulou, her parents called her “Elsa” from childhood. Her love of dance led her to the renowned Elli Zouroudis school, where she studied for several years. There she gained grace, self-confidence and her first contact with the stage — an experience that paved her way to acting and Greek cinema. Elsa Rizou began her artistic career in the theatre, as a dancer. Her first appearance was in December 1952 in the revue “Our Life is Cheerful”, which was staged at the Papaioannou Theatre, directed by Rena Dor. In the summer of 1953, she participated in the Acropolis Theater's review of "30 to Dollar", where she formed a dance pair with the later successful scre…

Known for

Μεσημεριανό Express poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μεσημεριανό Express

2009

Something Hot poster
6.6

During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large estate. Dinos though, does not accept because even though he is actually a womanizer he acts as a shy and modest man around people. Everyone there will meet a group of musicians and one of them will fall in love with the daughter of the strict manager of the company Dinos works for who is accompanied by Dinos. At some point, everyone goes to Athens where things get more complicated untill everyone finds his perfect match. In the end Rena gets her inheritance and all together they perform a musical play in a grand theater.

Something Hot

1964

The Lady and the Tramp poster
5.5

Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises herself as a boy named Pipis. As such, she meets a poor fisherman, Lefteris, and helps him on his way to Ioannina.

The Lady and the Tramp

1968

Klearhos, Marina and the short one poster
6.9

The Clearchos order to escape the unbearable and domineering wife Marina and found a lively geitonisa of Iro, will invoke the alleged suspicions that the Mahos groom, husband of their daughter Rhea has a mistress and will follow up the Fthiotida, where do you go to spas for a sore arm ...

Klearhos, Marina and the short one

1961

The Ladykiller poster
5.3

Lished a quarrel with his friend Aristos and a nonexistent uncle from America will become an opportunity to approach and seduce the poor and unemployed Babis beautiful and rich Ellie loves, without any hope to watch him otherwise.

The Ladykiller

1969

Return from the front poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Return from the front

1959

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 13 titles

Something Hot poster
6.6

During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large estate. Dinos though, does not accept because even though he is actually a womanizer he acts as a shy and modest man around people. Everyone there will meet a group of musicians and one of them will fall in love with the daughter of the strict manager of the company Dinos works for who is accompanied by Dinos. At some point, everyone goes to Athens where things get more complicated untill everyone finds his perfect match. In the end Rena gets her inheritance and all together they perform a musical play in a grand theater.

Something Hot

1964

The Lady and the Tramp poster
5.5

Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises herself as a boy named Pipis. As such, she meets a poor fisherman, Lefteris, and helps him on his way to Ioannina.

The Lady and the Tramp

1968

Klearhos, Marina and the short one poster
6.9

The Clearchos order to escape the unbearable and domineering wife Marina and found a lively geitonisa of Iro, will invoke the alleged suspicions that the Mahos groom, husband of their daughter Rhea has a mistress and will follow up the Fthiotida, where do you go to spas for a sore arm ...

Klearhos, Marina and the short one

1961

The Ladykiller poster
5.3

Lished a quarrel with his friend Aristos and a nonexistent uncle from America will become an opportunity to approach and seduce the poor and unemployed Babis beautiful and rich Ellie loves, without any hope to watch him otherwise.

The Ladykiller

1969

The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia poster
6.2

The film focuses on the Tarniatis brothers, with the brother trying to marry his sister (Georgia Vasileiadou), who refuses to follow the fashion of the time and become a lustful woman, so that he too can marry, having been engaged for eight years. The last groom that Vangelis shows Eftychia is Kleomenis, who after their trip to Hydra falls in love with the family's niece. However, Koulis also wants to marry Eftychia, who thinks he is inheriting 120,000 pounds.

The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia

1962

The Lucky One poster
7.5

A countryman arrives in Athens to make it big and becomes a millionaire overnight. However, a duo of swindlers has set their sights on getting their hands on his fortune. Will he discover the hard way that more money means more problems?

The Lucky One

1968

Michalios of the 14th Regiment poster
6.0

A guileless peasant with a heart of gold enlists in the prestigious Hellenic Special Forces and finds himself neck-deep in trouble when his superior entrusts him to keep an eye on his beloved only daughter.

Michalios of the 14th Regiment

1962

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

The End of the Two-Cent Coin poster
10.0

Agisilaos is in need of some money because he's facing an eviction.

The End of the Two-Cent Coin

1962

The Heirs poster
6.9

Four very different people inherit a percentage of a fashion house but in order to make it work they have to get along with each other.

The Heirs

1964

The Greek woman and love poster
5.0

Revolving around the modern Greek woman and her perspective on love in general, not one, but twenty-one brief and vivid vignettes attempt to shed light on an ever-present matter: can there be consequences in Cupid's eternal game?

The Greek woman and love

1962

A Very Clever Guy poster
6.2

Two naughty men, Iordanis and Potis, are partners in a drug- industry. Potis is a great womanizer, given that, even though he is married to the main financier of the business, Amalia, he doesn’t hesitate to cheat on her. One day, Tilemachos runs in a hurry into his office, looking for a job. Clever as he is, he suspects at once the ongoing situation and threatens to reveal everything to Amalia.

A Very Clever Guy

1965

We Parted Ways One Evening poster
9.0

Fani returns from abroad after her father's suicide. She accepts the harsh treatment of her relatives and distances herself from their environment. She meets the son of the man responsible for her father's financial ruin and falls in love with him. When she realizes who her beloved is, she leaves him. However, despite his father's objections, he finds her and marries her. His father regrets the harm he caused Fani and her family.

We Parted Ways One Evening

1966

1950s · 4 titles

Series credits