Giorgos Skalenakis

Directing

Giorgos Skalenakis

Born 1926-05-17 · Port Said, Egypt

Giorgos Skalenakis (Greek: Γιώργος Σκαλενάκης; 17 May 1926 – 14 September 2014) was a Greek film director and actor.

Acting credits

The Island of Aphrodite poster
7.0

In Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fails and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their prisoner.

The Island of Aphrodite

1965

Vintage Car poster
6.5

The history of motoring in Bohemia begins when Laurin and Klement founded a factory for the production of motorcycles. In 1904, the first motorcycle races were held in Dourdan, France, in which Czechs also participated. Czech mechanic František and Nanette, daughter of French mechanic Frontenac, met and fell in love there. Czech racer Vondřich finished second due to a breakdown. In 1905, the race was held again, Vondřich insured himself with a suitcase of spare parts and won. Nanette and František, who had been writing to each other all year, met again. After motorcycles, cars began to be produced everywhere, and in 1909 their first race was organized in Gaillon, France. The Czech racer Count Kolovrat won. His mechanic František married his beloved Nanette in the local church.

Vintage Car

1957

Zkouška pokračuje poster
5.0

As a young actor František Lukávec and his teacher Vladimir Tuma became enemies. František insisted that Tuma was dismissed from the school as a reactionary and hostile to the new government. Many years passed, and here they met again on the stage of a theater. František is assigned the role of Julius Fucik, Tuma plays the role of a Gestapo man in the same play. In the course of the action, the Gestapo man beats Fucik. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tuma beats up his old enemy during the dress rehearsal. Frantisek's face is bleeding, but he will still play. The rehearsal continues...

Zkouška pokračuje

1960

Pochodně poster
7.0

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their clothes are soaked with poisonous phosphorus. Young Josef Rezler also works in the sulphur factory and uses his earnings to feed his mother and little sisters. He throws his perpetually drunken father out of the house. The older worker Brož forces Josef to learn to read and write. A cholera epidemic breaks out in Prague and Josef is the only one of his family to survive the disease...

Pochodně

1961

Dva z onoho světa poster
6.0

A musical comedy about two indistinguishably similar siblings who love music, but each of them is completely different. Pavel Fořt is a professor of classical music at a pedagogical institute, his brother is a jazz musician and plays music in America. When the twin brother suddenly appears in Prague, they switch roles.

Dva z onoho světa

1962

An Easy Life poster
5.0

Depiction of Czech students in the 1950s. The kids are less interested in communism than in rock n’ roll. Czech authorities deemed the work decadent and subversive, which led to the director being kicked out of film school.

An Easy Life

1957

Every Penny Counts poster
7.0

After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.

Every Penny Counts

1961

Hlavní výhra poster
6.5

A comedy about a young salesman Havelka, who gets his life's wish. He wins his dream car Spartacus in a lottery. So together with his fiancée, they experience a happiness they have never known before and have no idea that their dream car will complicate their lives...

Hlavní výhra

1959

I Survived Certain Death poster
7.0

Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.

I Survived Certain Death

1960

Žalobníci poster
10.0

The young generation is not very at peace with the morality of their parents. In a story set in a Moravian village, the otherwise contented cooperators indulge in stealing from the common property without seeing anything wrong with such actions. After being reprimanded by their own children, they first get angry but then become ashamed. The result is a late agitational comedy that no longer deals with the peasants' entry into the agricultural cooperative, but with the mores prevailing there. The ideologically mature youth act as a guarantee of a happy future.

Žalobníci

1961

Where an Alibi Is Not Everything poster
7.5

“A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman.” The words of Inspector Tůma sound like they’re from a European melodrama, but in fact they come from a Czechoslovak crime story. A pair of detectives, counterfeit medicine, the high-society setting of a Karlovy Vary hotel, and Oldřich Nový as the aging hotel manager Kraus.

Where an Alibi Is Not Everything

1961

Florián poster
7.0

A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The farmer Florian Jírovec, who has to provide his horses for this event, is tired of it and therefore supports the proposal to build a proper brick chapel in Zbořov. The saint himself visits him at night and is rewarded for his efforts with a miracle. He sends him a golden cord from the sky, which can regulate the weather...

Florián

1961

Three Wishes poster
6.8

The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a small apartment in Žižkov with his wife and grandparents, desperately struggling with the lack of money. One day he offers an old man a seat on a crowded trolley bus and is generously rewarded for his good deed, for the unknown old man is a fabulous grandfather. He gives Peter a magic bell and the opportunity to make three wishes, but the first two slip through his fingers. For the third, the astonished man must take time to think...

Three Wishes

1963

A Suburban Romance poster
6.5

A young, unmarried woman finds herself a "little bit pregnant" and she tries to hide this fact from her mother but it isn't long before the truth is obvious.

A Suburban Romance

1958

Behind the camera

The Island of Aphrodite poster
7.0

In Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fails and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their prisoner.

The Island of Aphrodite

1965

Apollo Goes on Holiday poster
5.8

Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.

Apollo Goes on Holiday

1968

Πειναντέους poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Πειναντέους

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Príde pani z Grónska

1964

Oh, That Woman of Mine! poster
6.0

A man finds out that his boss had a quarrel with his wife, so he now tries to present her as his housemaid.

Oh, That Woman of Mine!

1967

Η φλόγα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Η φλόγα

1988

Imperiale poster
6.3

The selfish mistress of a soldier, Zoe, betrays her lover and marries the emperor of Byzantium. She then convinces her husband to banish her lover (and his devoted general) to the isolated castle of Monemvasia . When astrologers predict the end of the world and even specify the exact date, the now empress Zoe, instead of holding her position and supporting her husband, prefers to spend the last days of her life with her former lover.

Imperiale

1968

Οι εγκέφαλοι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Οι εγκέφαλοι

1987

Ροκ πάνθηρ poster
NR

In one neighborhood, Helen has her own band, Rock Panther, which is made up of only boys. In the same neighborhood, Paul has his own band, the Amazons, made up of only girls. Between Helen and Paul there is an unceasing rivalry and an endless hatred, but it hides a great love within. The great dream of both of them is to participate in the Eurovision Festival. Which of them will succeed in getting the golden ticket? Which one will win?

Ροκ πάνθηρ

1987

Ston asterismo tou lambada poster
6.0

Nikos, the son of a famous factory owner, lives a carefree and wild life in the rhythm of Lambada, together with his friend, Lakis. The clumsy young man decides to replace his father and takes over the business, appointing Lakis as manager, who is introduced to the staff as a consultant. With this plan, he discovers that two supervisors, with Lena's help, are stealing from the company. Lena devises a plan involving flirting and romantic games and tries to seduce Nikos to keep him quiet about her schemes. However, Nikos falls in love with Efi, his father's private secretary...

Ston asterismo tou lambada

1990

The Tsitisiolinos poster
7.5

Lefteris makes a safe life in Mr Ganttemis' company. He has begun to get tired of his relationship with Rena and thinks of his death, leaving money for security. One day he goes fishing, directing his drowning. She will change life and meet Christina. Discovering the asphalt's body, she takes Rena's security money and gathers them with Sotiris, the proffer of Lefteris.

The Tsitisiolinos

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Konečná stanica Rytmus

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Konečná stanica Rytmus

1964

Bouzouki Strumming poster
7.3

One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and two bouzouki musicians happen to pass by. They listen, enchanted by his limpid voice, and suggest that he becomes a member of their orchestra. Thus, the newly-wed day laborer gets a second job at Mr. Lefteris’ night club. His wife, Marina, soon joins him at the club, and, before long, she too goes on stage, cuts capers and charms everyone. Her success, however, has a negative impact on the couple’s relationship, since Marina’s admirers as well as those of Grigoris’, turn one away from the other.

Bouzouki Strumming

1966

The Mysterious Mr. Hyde poster
6.0

The television adaptation of Stevenson's well-known short story enriched the story with a new motif, because the good and evil in a person change not only under the influence of drugs, but also under the influence of insatiable love. We meet Mr. Hyde, who is an assistant to the elderly Dr. Jekyll, on the street when he kills a neighbor's dog. Dr. Utterson and his friend witness this when they go to visit a friend of theirs, Jekyll, who they are worried about. They believe that he is under the influence of his assistant, they fear for his life. Jekyll is the family doctor of Lady Danvers, with whom he is secretly in love. He is a talented scientist and has invented a liquid, a substance whose effect is very strange - it rejuvenates, but at the same time changes the character. And that gradually becomes fatal for him...

The Mysterious Mr. Hyde

1964

Thymisou, agapi mou... poster
5.0

Elsa and her husband Alkis vacation with their friend Vera in Nafplio, where Elsa's former love, Markos, is imprisoned. Years ago, Markos, a poor man, was framed for a crime by Alkis, leading to his imprisonment. Now, with Markos released and Alkis involved with Vera, old secrets resurface, and Elsa must confront her past and follow her heart.

Thymisou, agapi mou...

1969

Γοργόνα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Γοργόνα

1987

Prague Blues poster
8.0

African student Omar would like to return home to Angola, but he is enrolled in a three-year postgraduate research fellowship at a clinic in Prague. One day while seeing off a friend at the airport, he and a girl named Mariama are brought together by chance as he offers to accompany her in an unfamiliar city toward the International Student Club, where she plays bass in a jazz orchestra.

Prague Blues

1963

Queen of Clubs poster
6.8

A model (Elena Nathanail) is on vacation with her sailor husband (Thodoros Roumpanis), and she falls in love with an employee (Spyros Fokas) who works in the hotel where they are staying. She confesses her feelings to her husband, and he abandons her. The young woman hooks up with with the employee, who goes with her to Athens. There, their passion – and her crisis - will reach their peak.

Queen of Clubs

1966

The Omnipresent poster
8.0

A company producing baby products is facing survival problems. These are shouldered by its director, Lazarou, with his omnipresence, his private secretary, the president, and the company's particularly attractive female staff.

The Omnipresent

1989

Ω!!! Τι κόματος μπαμπά... poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ω!!! Τι κόματος μπαμπά...

1988

A Rena without brakes poster
NR

Tired of money, multimillionaire Rena is afflicted with the disease of the rich: boredom. In her attempt to escape the monotony of her easy life, she meets a group of misfits and they all get involved in a series of wild and crazy adventures...

A Rena without brakes

1984

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zázračný autobus

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nebráňte novému životu

1962