Despina Kourti

Acting

Despina Kourti

Known for

Acting

Credits

14 titles

Known for

Thou Shalt Not Kill poster
6.3

The main theme of the series is the way in which a person is led to murder while each story in the series combines elements of drama, social stories and thrillers. The duration of each episode is 45 minutes and is in the form of a psychograph. While the stories in the series are based on real events that have preoccupied public opinion, their dramatization has undergone some changes.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

2018

numb poster
7.0

Maria is caught between childhood and adolescence. After the sudden death of her classmate, she is once again confronted with loss. As she attempts to cope with this absence, Maria tries to find her own way to bid her loved one farewell.

numb

2024

Let's Go for an Ouzo poster
8.0

Sofia and Eleni and Petros and Alexandros and Despina and Daphne. Familiar, people-next-door types with their obsessions, weaknesses, hang-ups. People who make the daily rounds in search of communication. Sofia, fragile and with no defenses, searches for the scent of life. Eleni tries to combine career and child, making the mistakes she blames her mother Despina for making. Alexandros, a full-fledged adolescent strives to be loved. Petros goes after lost relationships. Characters and the absences of characters. Relationships that are articulated and disarticulated. Through tender glances and open wounds. With an invitation open to all as an antidote. One that we have extended dozens of times while we wait and hope. So... let's go for an ouzo.

Let's Go for an Ouzo

2002

Lou & Lena poster
5.9

Two friends, Lou and Lena... An agreement for this all night walk.

Lou & Lena

2003

End of an Era poster
5.9

In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.

End of an Era

1994

The Overcoat poster
7.0

Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it's stolen from him, he cannot return to his previous life of anonymity, leading to a downward spiral from which there is no return.

The Overcoat

1997

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 4 titles

End of an Era poster
5.9

In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.

End of an Era

1994

The Overcoat poster
7.0

Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it's stolen from him, he cannot return to his previous life of anonymity, leading to a downward spiral from which there is no return.

The Overcoat

1997

Shores of Twilight poster
7.5

An adaptation of Alexandros Papadiamantis's short story. Passion for a woman and some desperate thoughts push a young man to secretly take a stranger's boat and set sail. The wind carries him away and he is shipwrecked. He comes to in a cave, near the deserted shores, among three eccentric people who, each for their own reasons, live on the margins of society. He listens to them recount their personal stories with humour and self-deprecation. But behind their seemingly ill-fated romances, he discerns true love.

Shores of Twilight

1998

Borderline poster
5.8

Centres on two brothers, Stelios and Yannis. The impulsive Stelios skips their small town, deserts from the army, and is thought dead, until Yannis, now a city cop, recognizes his name on the papers of an illegal immigrant seaman. He begins a search for his lost brother, a search that takes him across many borders: between past and present, between Greece and its neighbouring countries, between one identity and another.

Borderline

1994

Series credits

Behind the camera