Mirka Kalatzopoulou

Acting

Mirka Kalatzopoulou

Born 1945-09-05 · Athens, Greece

Mirka Kalatzopoulou (Greek: Μίρκα Καλατζοπούλου, Athens, 5 September 1945) is a Greek actress. Together with her brother Yiannis Kalatzopoulou and Vasilakis Kailas, they were considered child prodigies of the golden age of Greek cinema. Mirka Kalatzopoulou, born in Athens in 1945, began classical dance lessons at a very young age. In the mid-1950s, she began performing in children's theater with her brother Yiannis. She made her film debut in 1955 at the age of just 9 with the sentimental film The Duchess of Placentia, directed by Maria Plyta and starring Rita Myrat in the role of Duchess Sophia. Her first leading role was in the 1960 film Erotic Games, directed by George Theodosiadis. Other important roles in the 1960s were in the films The Descent by Giannis Dalianidis, The Wood Came Out of Paradise by Alekos Sakellarios, and The Foolish Groom by Kostas Karagiannis. In 1967, after her marriage to businessman Carl Epser, she left for the United States where she began appearing on American television, participating in various shows, while at the same time she began taking acting classes at Columbia University, as well as business administration classes at UCLA. In 1978, Kalatzopoulou returned to Greece and began taking part in performances at the National Theatre, while two years later in 1980 she made her film comeback with the film The Man with the Carnation directed by Nikos Tzimas. In 1986, she participated in the film Caravan Sarai by Tasos Psarras, where she was awarded for her performance. Her last film appearance was in the film The Gaze of Odysseus in 1995, directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos.

Acting credits

Ulysses' Gaze poster
7.5

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Ulysses' Gaze

1995

Hands Up, Hitler poster
6.6

Two friends (Thanasis Vengos and Vasilis Diamantopoulos) meet after many years and recollect the tragi-comic events they went through during the German occupation.

Hands Up, Hitler

1962

The Fairy Tale Girl poster
5.5

A young girl, who lives in a poor neighborhood with her little brother, falls in love with a rich young man.

The Fairy Tale Girl

1956

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

Lolitas of Athens poster
5.0

What lies hidden in a nymphet’s soul? Lust for sex? Self-preservation? Childhood trauma? Father quest? Who can really see? A Police Officer who wants to bring Rosie back onto the right track does - but Rosie is too busy flirting with middle-aged men, destroying virtuous families and scheming her way up the social ladder, while also wallowing in seedy night clubs of the ’60ies wrestling Frida, the naked dancer hiding a rod, for Jim’s eyes only. Jim is not 100% sure which one of the two blondes he wants to kill so he might just make a serious mistake and kill Rosie. But is it really easy for a nymphet to be killed?

Lolitas of Athens

1965

Nightwalks poster
10.0

Documentary about the nightlife in Athens. The nightclubs, the musical acts, the striptease shows, but also some dramatized acts with well-known actors...

Nightwalks

1964

Innocent Souls poster
7.0

A children's film about the adventures of a young boy, Lampros, who returns to school after an absence of many days due to an accident. Lampros has a loyal and true friend in his dog, whom he calls Lykos (Wolf), with whom he spends endless hours of games and carefree abandon.

Innocent Souls

1960

Aristides and his Girls poster
7.2

Aristides, a widowed professor, lives with his housekeeper Eudokia and his three daughters, whom he has raised with strict principles. But what happens when he discovers that his daughters are planning a party? He takes drastic measures and forbids them from leaving the house. He entrusts Faidon with the task of finding them husbands. The girls' friends, Giorgos and Dimitris, then dress up as young ladies and present themselves at the house as their classmates from the conservatory...

Aristides and his Girls

1964

Broadcast poster
7.1

The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to fill the bill, a specimen who has all these characteristics. The lucky guy will spend a few hours in the company of a well-known movie star

Broadcast

1968

Μια 'βδομάδα στον παράδεισο poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μια 'βδομάδα στον παράδεισο

1964

The seawolf poster
5.8

A trainee sailor makes life difficult for his marker to be presented with his outfit and his name to a girl he likes.

The seawolf

1964

Ορφανή στους Πέντε Δρόμους poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ορφανή στους Πέντε Δρόμους

1964

Επικίνδυνη Αποστολή poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Επικίνδυνη Αποστολή

1961

If All the Women in the World poster
6.0

In a mountain village, a conflict develops between peace-loving and war-loving women, culminating in a global women's alert for peace and social justice.

If All the Women in the World

1967

I Never Knew My Mother poster
10.0

After his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Lakis is forced to move to Athens to live with his cousin Marina, who lives with a gambler named Giorgos. Instead of offering him shelter and food, they send him to work at Benos' gas station, where he sleeps at night. Soon, Lakis befriends his boss's daughter, Kiki, who is the same age as him, but fails to win the sympathy of her brother, Takis. One day, Takis steals a large sum of money from his father's office and suspicion falls on Lakis. Benos confiscates all his money and fires him. Alone and desolate, since Marina has left Athens, he sells the suitcase containing all his belongings and begins to wander here and there.

I Never Knew My Mother

1962

Sucker Groom poster
6.7

Two fanciful friends earn a half-apartment in a lottery and are forced to cohabit, while they like the same girl and want to marry her. So one tries to put obstacles in the other and engage in comic situations.

Sucker Groom

1962

The Decline poster
6.1

A weak before her lady-killer lover, a blond diva breaks up with the arrogant libertine to be with a kind friend. His ego demands appeasement, but the lethal revolver in her hand thirsts for retribution. Who is to blame for her downfall?

The Decline

1961

One More Time Before I Die poster
10.0

The entrepreneur Nick Zervoulis, seeing that his daughter Annita has trouble with the man of the underworld Mars Farkas, seeks the help of plef Bush Peter Dimas. Peter appears as an old friend of her father, slowly manages to make him fall in love and to remove from Mars. Mars but is not willing to let ...

One More Time Before I Die

1970

The Duchess of Plakendia poster
7.3

After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834.

The Duchess of Plakendia

1956

At Night the Entanglements poster
6.3

The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman.

At Night the Entanglements

1957

Father, Behave Yourself! poster
5.8

Antonis is a wealthy peasant who finds out that his son spends money and time partying instead of studying. He decides to visit him and restore him to track but instead of achieving his purpose, he falls into the trap of sweet life too.

Father, Behave Yourself!

1967

Athens, theft on Stadiou Street poster
7.0

Marianna, a free-spirited and wealthy young lady, becomes romantically involved with Marios, the leader of a gang of burglars who committed a major robbery at a jewelry store in Athens. The robbery was committed in broad daylight by Alekos and his girlfriend, Suzy and Sotos.

Athens, theft on Stadiou Street

1968

Love Games poster
4.5

A father is desperately trying to tame his young daughter, while she falls for a young man during their vacation In the island of Aegina, near Athens. But young love ignores fatherly threats and takes its course.

Love Games

1960

My Groom, the Lawyer! poster
6.7

A barber wants to marry his daughter to a scientist. He believes that he has found the proper candidate in the face of a trainee lawyer.

My Groom, the Lawyer!

1962