Gelly Mavropoulou

Acting

Gelly Mavropoulou

Born 1932-10-21 · Thessaloniki, Greece

Gelly (Angeliki) Mavropoulou (Thessaloniki, 21 October 1932 – Athens, 19 July 2021) was a Greek actress. She was born in Thessaloniki in 1932. Her parents were also actors Angelos Mavropoulos (1901–1979) and Marika Krevata (1910–1994). She studied at the French Academy of Athens and at the Drama School of the "Art Theater" of Karolos Koun. Geli Mavropoulou first appeared in the cinema in 1953 with the film Papa is Being Trained by Giorgos Lazaridis and was followed by leading roles in more than 40 more films covering all genres of Greek cinema from the period 1950-1980, classic comedies (The Beauty of Athens, by Nikos Tsiforos, 1954; The Aunt from Chicago by Alekos Sakellarios, 1957; Fanouris and His Family by Dimitris Ioannopoulos, 1957; Fortunately I Went Crazy by Kostas Andritsos, 1961; Company of Miracles by Stefanos Stratigos, 1962; The Gentleman's Wife by Yiannis Dalianidis, 1962; The Messer by Grigoris Grigoriou, 1967), melodramas (Red Roses by Kostas Andritsos, 1955; The Little Sprout by Jason Novak, 1955; The Wandering of an Innocent by Kostas Andritsos, 1959; The Road with Red Lights by Kostas Karagiannis, 1963; Every Port and Woe by Homer Efstratiadis, 1964), resistance adventures (The Brave Die Twice by Takis Vougiouklakis, 1973), historical dramas (Ali Pasha and Lady Frosini by Stefanos Stratigos, 1959), frock films (Myrtia by Kostas Karagiannis, 1961), film noir (Crime in Kolonaki by Tzanis Aliferis, 1960; The Kidnapping of Kostas Karagiannis, 1964; Emergency Exit by Nikos Foskolos, 1980), spy thrillers (The Avenue of Betrayal by Christos Kyriakopoulos, 1969), and even films of the new Greek cinema (The Honeymoon by Giorgos Panousopoulos, 1979). Her last film appearance was in the film 17 Bullets for an Angel (1981) by Nikos Foskolos-Takis Vougiouklakis. Her greatest cinematic successes are considered to be the role of Katina, the unmarried girl who must be rehabilitated at all costs in the film Fanouris and His Family (1957) by Dimitris Ioannopoulos, alongside Mimis Fotopoulos, the role of Eva, the cunning and ambitious middle-class woman who directs her husband's career, in the film The Gentleman's Wife (1962) by Yiannis Dalianidis, alongside Dinos Iliopoulos, and the role of Dimitra, the widow of Lieutenant Avgeris, who hires a double to play her husband, in Takis Vougiouklakis' film The Brave Die Twice (1973), alongside Angelos Antonopoulos. It is worth noting that she is the protagonist who launched rock and roll in Greek cinema, along with Theodoros Dimitriev, in the film The Aunt from Chicago (1957). She died on July 19, 2021, at the age of 88. Her body was cremated, and her ashes were interred in the mausoleum of Greek artists at the First Cemetery of Athens. (Source: Wikipedia)

Acting credits

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

Honeymoon poster
4.7

Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in the ocean, naked, as he and Zaharoula are out walking on the beach. Taken up in the spirit of the moment, she joins him among the waves. The results, however, are not what they expected.

Honeymoon

1979

17 Bullets for an Angel poster
7.2

Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she was arrested for the first time, her rich father managed to set her free, and she fell in love with a young doctor who took care of her injuries following torture. A little before the withdrawal of the Germans, she participated in the blowing up of a train that was transporting ammunition, and she was arrested again, but this time no one could save her. She was executed at the Chaïdari camp, along with forty-nine other prisoners.

17 Bullets for an Angel

1981

Κατατρεγμένοι της μοίρας poster
7.0

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Κατατρεγμένοι της μοίρας

1964

Emergency exit poster
5.6

When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police. Markos falls in love with her and they start going out until he asks her to marry him. That's exactly when she meets a junkie named Tasos Bekiris and falls in love with him. When he is murdered by a mysterious woman all the clues lead to Daisy who tries to prove her innocence. As she discovers, this woman is in charge of a drug-smuggling racket and she is also planning to import a huge quantity of heroin in Athens. Daisy kills her and arrives at their meeting place along with Markos.

Emergency exit

1980

The Auntie from Chicago poster
6.8

Charilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises his four daughters with... military discipline, taking care of their culture, their appearance and their good behavior. Despite all his desire to marry them, he does not leave them anywhere alone, as a result of which no man approaches them. His wife, Efterpi (Eleni Zafiriou), as well as his friend and neighbor Xenophon (Pantelis Zervos), make remarkable efforts to convince him to change his tactics, but he insists on his very conservative behavior. But when the conversation reaches the well-to-do sister of Kalliopis (Georgia Vassiliadou) who has been living in Chicago, USA for years, everything turns upside down. She returns to Athens and undertakes to modernize the general's house, as well as help the four girls (and her nieces) to be rehabilitated.

The Auntie from Chicago

1957

Fanouris and His Kin poster
7.8

A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful expatriate brother to finally see their older sister get married. However, is the wealthy sibling willing to help?

Fanouris and His Kin

1957

Eftyhos... trellathika! poster
4.8

Charilaos Maraziotis owns a store and owes so much money both to his lenders and to the state, that he is in danger of going to jail. He decides to pretend to be a psychopath and is sent to an asylum. His lenders, upon hearing the news about his mental health, change their attitude towards him and release him from his debts.

Eftyhos... trellathika!

1961

Ali Pasas and Lady Frosyni poster
4.8

The forbidden love between legendary Mrs Frosini with the son of Ali Pasa, Mouhtar and her tragic death in the lake of Ioannina.

Ali Pasas and Lady Frosyni

1959

Για την αγάπη μιας ορφανής poster
9.0

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Για την αγάπη μιας ορφανής

1960

Μυρτιά poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μυρτιά

1961

The Beauty of Athens poster
6.4

A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inheritance.So he tries to trick a poor devil into getting married with her.

The Beauty of Athens

1954

You have to live my love poster
8.0

A professional wrestler coming from the wrong side of the tracks aspires to wear the prestigious championship belt. Instead, he finds love and a life-threatening injury. Will he find the courage to face the greatest challenge in his life?

You have to live my love

1965

The Father Is Training poster
8.3

A widowed taverna owner tries to improve himself in order to please the aristocratic family of his son's wife. He manages to change things and ends up training everyone else instead.

The Father Is Training

1953

Golgotha of an Innocent poster
9.0

The beautiful gypsy Marina, who has never known her father, decides to leave her mother and the gypsy camp and go to live in the city. With Katerina's help, she finds a job in a shop where she meets and falls in love with Petros, heir to the wealthy Alexandros Kanaris. The two lovers plan to marry, but Petros' father, who is naturally opposed to such a marriage, learns of Marina's origins. The great suffering begins when she tells Petros the secret, and he kicks her out of the house because he considers gypsies to be lowly. However, he does not know that Marina is pregnant with his child. Six years later, when Petros returns to Greece after completing his studies in cardiology, little Annoula—his daughter, whom Marina had left at Kanaris' doorstep—will be the reason her parents reunite.

Golgotha of an Innocent

1961

From Jerusalem with love poster
4.5

Martha is locked up in a mental hospital by her own husband, who covets her fortune. At some point, however, with the help of her husband's brother, who studied medicine abroad, she escapes and returns home to see her daughter. This creates friction and coldness between the two brothers, resulting in the doctor who showed her genuine affection packing his bags and leaving Greece.

From Jerusalem with love

1967

1821 at the Cinema poster
NR

In 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

Of Fortune The Written poster
8.5

Accompanied by his feathery associate, a wandering fortune-teller predicts the fates of passers-by to make a living. He encounters penniless lovers, incurable romantics, and unscrupulous con artists. But who knows what tomorrow holds?

Of Fortune The Written

1957

Rolled in the mud poster
6.0

An impecunious young woman is lured into prostitution, trying to survive and provide for her ailing, bedridden mother.

Rolled in the mud

1955

The Brave Die Twice poster
8.5

During the German occupation, Mrs. Dimitra, widow of pilot Nikiforos Avgeris, lives with her daughter Natasha and her mother-in-law. One day, she happens to meet Haris, a stuntman who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband, and asks him to play the role of her husband for the sake of her daughter. Haris agrees, and for a while they live together. However, the Germans, believing him to be the real Avgeris, arrest him. He does not reveal his true identity...

The Brave Die Twice

1973

Treason Avenue poster
10.0

A prisoner of war who escaped from Albania claims to be a major in the Greek army named Alexandros Vergis, causing great confusion within the army, since Vergis had escaped a year ago and now works for Greek counterintelligence. The shock for Vergis' wife and the niece of the head of counterintelligence, General Gerakaris, is immense. The two men look like two peas in a pod, and the grueling interrogations that follow aim to unravel the mystery and expose the traitor.

Treason Avenue

1969

Crime in Omonia poster
8.0

A man is found dead in the Omonia underground station and the police investigate the crime. The police officer in charge of the investigation meets and becomes romantically involved with the daughter of the murdered man, even though he suspects that she may know something about her father's activities. However, it soon becomes clear that the deceased had close ties to and collaborated with a large ring of antiquities smugglers. A police agent, who pretends to be interested in buying ancient artifacts, leads to the complete dismantling of the ring and the solving of the crime.

Crime in Omonia

1962

Δυο αγάπες δυο κόσμοι poster
8.0

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Δυο αγάπες δυο κόσμοι

1958

Η πικραγαπημένη poster
9.0

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Η πικραγαπημένη

1965