Ketty Papanika

Acting

Ketty Papanika

Born 1942-06-14 · Nea Filadelfeia, Attiki, Greece

Kaiti Papanika (Greek: Καίτη Παπανίκα, June 14, 1942 – June 12, 2017) was a Greek actress. Her parents were from Acharnes (Menidi) in Attica. She studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre and graduated with honors. She was taught acting by important teachers, such as Katina Paxinou, Anna Synodinou, Thanos Kotsopoulos, Dimitris Myrat, Lykourgos Kallergis, Eleni Chalkousi and Alexis Solomos. At the same time, she studied classical singing at the Athens Conservatory. As a student, she also took part in a poetry recitation festival in Paris, was awarded and declared an honorary citizen. She made her stage debut in 1964 in the play Lela's Basement by V. Improhoris at the Attikon Theatre. She then collaborated with troupes of well-known protagonists and distinguished herself in prose and review. She began her film career with the film They Hide the Sun from Us (1963) and 1968 was a turning point for her career, as she became better known when she played in the film An Italian from the Beehive. Throughout her career, she took part in more than 50 films, dramas, comedies and adventures. She was honored with the State Award for Best Actress in 1990 for her performance in the film Bye-Bye by G. Tsemberopoulos, while she had also played in several television series. She was the wife of the well-known actor Theodoros Katsadramis. Katie Papanika was a teacher at the Antonis Andriopoulos School of Acting. On February 8, 2015, she was unanimously declared an Honorary Member of the Philotechni Club of Acharnes (Menidi). (Source: Wikipedia)

Acting credits

Take Care poster
4.6

A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an affair with the widow and cannot decide between them

Take Care

1991

Ο δρόμος των ηρώων poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο δρόμος των ηρώων

1971

Three Little Birds Are Sitting... poster
5.3

Demosthenes Taxiarchis, a sandalmaker by profession, is handsome, fickle and a troublemaker. Together with his friend Spyros Gyras, the Police Commander, they ride around on their bicycles, searching for the ideal love and the meaning of life. A romantic comedy set in Athens, which still retains magical moments from its glorious past, a story with heroes who rescue the ancestral ethos and the genuine soul of the Greek, a hymn to life, love and beauty.

Three Little Birds Are Sitting...

2003

Under Your Make-up poster
6.0

Niki, an employee at a cosmetics shop, wants to have a child. Driving back home one night, she runs over a little girl. Although innocent, Niki now has to deal with the "unbearable".

Under Your Make-up

2009

Η τρελλογκόμενα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Η τρελλογκόμενα

1985

Testosterone poster
5.1

Peter, the hero, aged 20, finds himself on a deserted Greek island with no other men in sight. The women of the island, regardless of age harass him sexually. What starts off as a typical male sexual fantasy turns out into a nightmare

Testosterone

2005

Η Αριστοκράτισσα Και Ο Αλήτης poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Η Αριστοκράτισσα Και Ο Αλήτης

1970

In the vertigo of life poster
8.0

A promising civil engineer, Stelios, delays his marriage to his beloved Anna because he wants to marry off his sisters first. When Anna becomes engaged to a wealthy sailor and his plans for a major project are rejected, Stelios leaves for Kuwait to work. In an accident, he loses his sight and returns to Greece. Anna will wait for him—since she never married and remains faithful to him—and with the help of a doctor, Stelios will have his eyes healed. His luck has changed radically and the same man who initially rejected his plans will now hire him in his business.

In the vertigo of life

1969

Zavoliara poster
9.0

Two poor young lovers who dream of making a rich wedding pose as rich.

Zavoliara

1971

For a Handful of Tourist ladies poster
3.3

In search of the perfect location to start a camping business, a lovely investor visits a sun-kissed Greek island, only to get caught in the middle of a long-standing feud between two antagonistic villages. Can they let bygones be bygones?

For a Handful of Tourist ladies

1971

Rousfeti and... sex poster
NR

Michalakis has been a director at a provincial bank for 20 years. He hopes to get a good promotion someday, but in these cases, acquaintances and russefeti are needed, which Michalakis does not have. So his wife takes action, going down to Athens to find the General and talk to him about her husband's case. But a series of unforeseen events begin to confuse things...

Rousfeti and... sex

1987

Η αρχόντισσα του λιμανιού poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η αρχόντισσα του λιμανιού

1969

Δάκρυα για έναν αλήτη poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Δάκρυα για έναν αλήτη

1971

Pavlos Melas poster
9.0

The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks and Bulgarians. A story stick to the facts for the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks. Pavlos Melas is the symbol of the struggle for the independence of Macedonia in Greece.

Pavlos Melas

1973

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

In the Spider's Web poster
7.0

Professor Algeras becomes the target of foreign agents working for major powers, who use every legitimate and illegitimate means at their disposal to try to get hold of his scientific discovery. The most ruthless and unscrupulous foreign agent, who ultimately traps Algeras, is Milko, who comes from the countries behind the Iron Curtain. It eventually transpires that Milko, who has been brainwashed, was the professor's only son, lost during the communist child abductions.

In the Spider's Web

1973

An Italian girl from Kypseli poster
6.5

A young student (Alekos Alexandrakis) comes from Italy and presents to his sister (Katerina Gioulaki) the fiancée (Maro Kondou) as Italian, because the first insisted not to marry a Greek. The couple, however, in cooperation with the afflicted spouse (Giannis Vogiatzis) strict sister, managed to change the opinion.

An Italian girl from Kypseli

1968

Operation Kraipe poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Operation Kraipe

1971

The foreign is sweeter poster
10.0

Stathis Delipanos is a lively and womanizing advertiser, owner of the "Tourloblon" advertising company. Infatuated with Paulina, a beautiful photo model, he arranges a romantic two-day stay in Volos. At the same time, his wife, Eleni Delipanou, owner of a beauty salon, is sexually assaulted by Petros, an incurable lover of the female sex. When Eleni learns of her husband's love affair, she decides to take revenge on him and arranges a trip to Volos. But things get confused when Ilias, owner of the "Hilton" of Vromotsiknia, changes the road signs with the result that everyone ends up in the village...

The foreign is sweeter

1981

One Crazy Crazy Hijacker poster
4.4

Two 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

The Drunk of the Harbor poster
10.0

A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers the current owner of the villa that used to belong to him.

The Drunk of the Harbor

1967

Το διαβολοθήλυκο poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Το διαβολοθήλυκο

1986

Αγώνας χωρίς τέλος poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Αγώνας χωρίς τέλος

1978

I sexouala poster
NR

A midwife returns from America, Barbara, and stays at her younger daughter, Rena. There he strengthens the climate with his feminist views and endangers the happiness of the couple.

I sexouala

1986