
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
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Μεσημεριανό Express
2009
6.6During 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
5.5Rena’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
6.9The 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
5.3Lished 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Return from the front
1959
Film credits
1970s · 5 titles
4.8An old couple reviews their lives together, from the first time they met and got married since the present, through good and bad moments...
Bedlam My Love
1972
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Gang of Lovers
1972
4.4Two apartments of an apartment building with common balcony, living two same-sex couples. At one resident Stephen with Fanny and the other Myrto with Tatiana. But other things show and others are as well in the apartments live two married couples. Stephen with Myrto and Fanis with Tatiana, who keep hidden their marriages, because women working as hostesses in an airline that does not allow their marriage...
One Crazy Crazy Hijacker
1973
6.2A kind accountant meets the statuesque owner of a boutique who comes up with a double proposal: apart from bookkeeping, he has to help her with her fiancé. As deeper feelings take over, will this brave volunteer of love emerge victorious?
Volunteer in Eros
1971
7.5A minor fender-bender triggers a string of unexpected events when a young optimist and car sales representative chances upon the incognito daughter of his antagonist. Will this lead to a fresh romance, and the fulfilment of his dreams?
The optimist
1973
1960s · 13 titles
6.6During 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
5.5Rena’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
6.9The 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
5.3Lished 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
6.2The 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
7.5A 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
6.0A 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
7.9The 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
10.0Agisilaos is in need of some money because he's facing an eviction.
The End of the Two-Cent Coin
1962
6.9Four 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
5.0Revolving 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
6.2Two 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
9.0Fani 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Return from the front
1959
7.2A poor taxi driver works hard in order to pay off his car and to marry his fiancee.
The Driver
1953
3.5A notary calls in the office three brothers: Theophrastus, Telis and Kokkovio Karampoumpouna and announces the death of their distant uncle from Chicago, who left their legacy sixty thousand US dollars, provided to start a company together. Telis, the most intelligent, has its own photography and aims, with the help of his fiancée Bubi, eat whole heritage. Two friends Bubi, Mirka and Jenny, are employed, diplaronoun naive and the plan seems to be going well.
The Heirs of Karampoumpounas
1959
5.0Set in Athens, this Greek film concerns the trials and tribulations of two girls from the village of Korfu. Unschooled in big-city ways, our heroines are prime targets for every sharpster and lothario in the city. The results of their naivete are more comic than dramatic, culminating in lasting romance for both ladies. The plotline is periodically interrupted by the performance of Greek folk dances, easily the highlights of the film. Indicative of the frugality of the Greek film industry is the fact that, at $80,000, this was the country's most expensive production up to 1957!
Capital adventures
1956

