Katerina Gogou

Acting

Katerina Gogou

Born 1940-06-01 · Athens, Greece

Katerina Gogou (Greek: Κατερίνα Γώγου; 1940–1993) was a Greek actress, poet, author and anarchist activist. She was born in 1940 during World War II and the Axis occupation of Greece, for which she did not spend a pleasant childhood. She had a strict father with whom she lived during her childhood. Afterwards, in her teenage years, she lived with her mother. From the age of 5 years she started acting in children's plays. Professionally she debuted in theater with Dinos Iliopoulos' theater company in the play Ο Κύριος πέντε τοις εκατό (Mr. five percent) in 1961. She made her first cinematographic appearance in the film Ο άλλος (The other one / The other person). Most of the films she participated in were Finos Film productions. She became more widely known for roles of cheerful and carefree women like in the movies Το ξύλο βγήκε από τον παράδεισο (The wood came out of paradise) and Μια τρελή τρελή οικογένεια (A crazy crazy family). She has received the award for best actress in a lead role in Thessaloniki International Film Festival for the film Το βαρύ πεπόνι (The heavy melon - this phrase in Greek is an idiom referring to someone who tries to appear as a macho man), directed by Pavlos Tasios. As a poet she was known for her revolutionary and aggressive writing. She was an anarchist and her political identity was often reflected in her poems, such as "Υπερασπίζομαι την Αναρχία" (I support/defend Anarchy) or "Εμένα οι φίλοι μου είναι μαύρα πουλιά" (My friends are black birds). She also wrote some books with one of them, Τρία κλικ αριστερά (Three Clicks Left), being translated into English in 1983 by Jack Hirschman and published by Night Horn Books in San Francisco and also into Turkish in 2018 by Turkish author Mahir Ergun and published by Belge International Publishing House in Istanbul. Katerina Gogou was participating actively in the anarchist movement, especially in the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens. She supported anarchist prisoners and participated in movements for the liberation of political prisoners. She had been arrested several times, one of which as a suspect for the murder of two police officers by the Revolutionary Organization 17 Noemvri, for which she was declared innocent. She had a bad relationship with the police, having filed a complaint after being attacked by police officers during a protest. She was married to film director Pavlos Tassios, with whom she had a daughter.Later in her life she got addicted to alcohol and drugs. She was found dead in her apartment in October 1993 due to a drug overdose. (Source: Wikipedia)

Acting credits

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband poster
7.4

When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later..

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband

1965

The Barber's Beauty poster
5.5

A barber tries to find husbands for his four sisters so that he can marry his fiancee.

The Barber's Beauty

1969

Nomos 4000 poster
6.1

Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ..

Nomos 4000

1962

Maiden's Cheek poster
7.0

Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.

Maiden's Cheek

1959

The Antisocial poster
7.0

A provincial café owner, Mimis, abandons his village in Chalkidiki and comes to Athens in search of a better life. He pretends to be a tough guy, a know-it-all, and behaves like an “antisocial”. With the help of a friend of his from the army, Aristeidis, he tries to set up his own business. At the same time, he falls in love with a seamstress, Toula, who is the sister of Aristeidis’ wife. Then comes the wedding, the everyday obligations, and Mimis is forced, with great resentment, to work as a waiter to make ends meet. When he get fired, however, his relationship with Nitsa is put to the test.

The Antisocial

1977

Miss Manager poster
7.5

The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of which she takes over the management, but at the same time, she is looking to find ways of charm to conquer the lively sub-engineer Alekos Samiotakis.

Miss Manager

1964

Tired life poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tired life

1964

Parangelia! poster
7.5

The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespecting his brother Demos' zeibekiko, a traditional Greek dance.

Parangelia!

1980

A Crazy, Crazy Family poster
7.9

Mika is a young woman living in a crazy ... family. Her mother, Pasta Flora, is alienated, her little sister is uncontrollable, and her father is a good, but cowardly, man. She's engaged to Mikis but the day before their wedding she goes to Venice and marries Andreas, who, after meeting her family, he undertakes to make sense of them.

A Crazy, Crazy Family

1965

1922 poster
5.7

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.

1922

1978

Dracula and Company poster
7.5

Comedy where Athanassios inherits a castle supposedly inhabited by Count Dracula, and decides to settle the question.

Dracula and Company

1959

The child of the square poster
6.7

An unemployed man (Kostas Chatzichristos), prone to endless amusements, economically sucks his uncle (Periklis Christoforidis) in order to satisfy his desires. His despair, when his uncle decides to stop the economic benefits, will lead him to sell some furniture of the house. He sells four armchairs and then he learns that in one of them were hidden precious jewels of the aunt. He looks desperately to find and to get them back, but he only discovers three of them, and in these there is no trace of jewelry. To find the fourth and lucky one, whose traces are completely ignored, he accepts partnered with a friend (Takis Christoforidis). He is transformed into an organized, consistent and good working man, and falls in love with his sister's partner (Stella Stratigou) and discovers that the fourth chair was held by his uncle, who set up this whole story to motivate him and make him active.

The child of the square

1961

Wedding like... Greek poster
6.1

Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how hard marriage is.

Wedding like... Greek

1964

The Right-Minded Madman poster
6.1

A wretch employee wins a lot of money in the lottery and loses his mind. When he comes out of the mental hospital, he finds out that things at his home have changed radically.

The Right-Minded Madman

1968

A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush poster
5.7

The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves. When her uncle from America and her older sister arrive, the situation radically changes, because the new arrivals happen to be open-minded and view things in a different light.

A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

1965

Love forever poster
7.5

A spoiled rich girl falls in love with a poor, good-looking but also talented pianist, rejecting a wealthy suitor from her own class. However, a combination of her parents' pressure and a misunderstanding with her beloved leads her to accept the proposal of a wealthy businessman. At the same time, an accident obliges the young pianist to abandon his piano for quite a long time. And although the young girl stands by him in his time of need, she leaves him the moment he recovers. However, on the night of his first concert, she returns to his side, determined to spend their life together.

Love forever

1970

Crazy Girls Awesome Boys poster
8.0

Two detergent entrepreneurs decide to marry their children, each believing that their rival holds the secret to a certain type of biological enzyme. However, their children react to these machinations and devise their own plan to counter their parents' illicit ambitions.

Crazy Girls Awesome Boys

1970

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi? poster
6.7

A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?

1971

The Liar poster
5.3

Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in the book--including a cunning but charming impersonation--to reach her goal. But, will the pampered heiress have it her way once more?

The Liar

1963

Marriage Lads poster
7.0

Fotis and Kosmas are partners in a country resort. They are not so concerned with their work as they are with their unmarried sisters. Finding the right husband is their primary concern, but they don't know that behind their backs, Fotis' sister is dating Kosmas, and Kosmas' sister is dating Fotis.

Marriage Lads

1963

Yes, But... poster
4.3

A young man pushed beyond his endurance remembers his life on the roof of a tall building. He's there to commit suicide.

Yes, But...

1972

I'm a man and... I'll have fun! poster
8.0

A young girl, in an attempt to avoid the aspirations of her bosses, gets a job disguised as a man.

I'm a man and... I'll have fun!

1960

Katerina Gogou: For the Restoration of Blackness poster
NR

The biography of poet and actress Katerina Gogou. In the film, Boskoitis combines exclusively in black and white, archival material and interviews with Gogou's friends and collaborators, along with dramatized sketches from her life (starring Loukia Michalopoulou) as well as well-known, set-to-music poems of hers.

Katerina Gogou: For the Restoration of Blackness

2013

Τα κοθώνια του θρανίου poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Τα κοθώνια του θρανίου

1962

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