
Acting
Giorgos Oikonomou
Born
1935-01-01 (91)
Place of birth
Kapandriti, Attiki, Greece
Known for
Acting
Credits
52 titles
Giorgos Oikonomou was born in 1935 in Kapandriti and studied at the Drama School of the Karolos Koun Theatre Art, but graduated from the Pelos Katseli Drama School in 1958. He also studied cinema at the Lykourgos Stavrakos School. Founder and leader of the Artistic Pioneer Group, presenting various plays and children's theater in the province. He was involved in directing in theater and cinema and in film and television productions. In addition to theater, he wrote plays for children, radio shows and scripts. (Source: greekactor)
Known for
6.41908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Pascali's Island
1988
7.0The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
Iphigenia
1977
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ο Πειρασμός
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Χάιδω
1967
6.0This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Oedipus the King
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Οι κολασμένοι
1964
Film credits
1980s · 12 titles
6.41908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Pascali's Island
1988
5.0Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rapid rise to power, a Greek music student arrives in 1936 Berlin and becomes a cabaret singer. In Europe, WWII rages on, and joining the Resistance is the only way to fight back. Will Nelly do her part?
Nelly, the Spy
1981
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Η τρελλή συμμορία της πεθεράς
1985
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Άντρα θέλω!... Τώρα τον θέλω!
1986
3.0Two prisoners escape from the prison and they end up hidding in a small remote village trying to cross the borders.
Οι Δύο Φυγάδες
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Τα λιονταράκια του έρωτα
1985
3.7An unruly voyeurism, Simos, works in a hotel as a bourgeois. A gang of burglars has put in the eye of the hotel's safe. The members of the gang - five in number and very pretty women - are staying at the hotel, waiting for the proper opportunity for the burglary. Meanwhile, the hotel's daughter, Myrto, seeing that the hotel is not doing well, and believing that some people sabotage the business, represents the receptionist, in order to learn from the inside exactly what is happening. The passion of Simos makes him a companion of the five women's gang's plans, both to frustrate the burglary and to win the hand of Myrto, who has fallen in love with him.
And the First Matakias
1982
5.6Stefanos, Giorgos, and Nondas are three young men who ended up in juvenile detention for stealing a bag containing three million euros. After a few years, they are released, full of the experiences they had during all those years locked up in prison. Their goal is to start a new life, avoiding all the mistakes and temptations of the past. Unfortunately for them, however...
Fylakes anilikon No. 2: Ekdikisi sti via
1984
5.3This comedy takes place during a hot summer at a Greek island. We meet Stathis and his company and we watch as they try to get the attention of all kinds of beautiful foreign girls.
Gigolos
1981
4.8Rena, a dynamic woman who looks up to Margaret Thatcher, decides to fix the problems she sees around her, in Athens and Greece in general. When the president of state television gives her the opportunity to host a show and express her views, she takes advantage of the offer. She takes to the streets and, with the help of a cameraman, attempts to document the wrongdoings of the country.
Iron Lady
1983
9.0Dimitris Lembessis gets out of prison, pays his friend Stratos a visit and kills him. With Ilias he organizes a big jewel heist. During the operation they discover that someone has ratted on them. In their attempt to escape, a police officer is killed and Ilias is mortally wounded...
Misunderstanding
1983
NRAn ex-criminal wants to change his life but the Mafia wants him back.
Αλλαγή... και το λουρί της μάνας
1982
1970s · 13 titles
7.0The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
Iphigenia
1977
5.7Based 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
3.3Achilleas, who works together with his friend Paminos at Prokopis’ gas station, tries, via correspondence, to find a rich woman from abroad to marry and, in this way, hit the jackpot.
King of Liars
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Μαυρόλυκοι του βουνού και του κάμπου
1971
5.3The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.
Astrapogiannos
1970
4.3A soldier runs away from the horrors of war, finds love with a virgin farm girl and a mistreated housewife, and will find that it is difficult to survive the battles of sex and love.
The Deserter
1970
7.5A humble clerk gets his lucky break when a compassionate man offers him a well-paying job. Now, his relatives all want a piece of his salary, as his mother-in-law is telling everyone that he is rich. Is there an easy way out of this mess?
How did we end up like this, Sotiris?
1972
8.0In 19th century Thessaly, a Turkish bandit and his gang kidnap a Greek woman. Her brother, however, manages to free her with the help of their fellow villagers. The kidnapped woman reveals the Turks’ plans to loot the monasteries in Meteora, information which allows them to prevent the looting.
Golden Eagles in Meteora
1970
5.9Jim Preston receives a yacht as an anniversary present from his wealthy wife Ellen. He plans to kill her for her entire fortune. To carry out the murder plan, he makes a contact with Mike, a crazed rape killer who has been terrorizing the city. Mike agrees to be the assassin for a large quantity of heroin. However he suspects that Preston will kill him as soon as his assignment is complete, so he finds a woman who looks exactly like Ellen and kills her instead.
Death Kiss
1974
5.6A conceited businessman, who thinks that he has struck oil, starts a petroleum company and catches the attention of money-grubbing swindlers. Can his secretary help him see that this reckless enterprise is nothing but an elaborate hoax?
The imaginary one
1973
4.8The beautiful Helena, neglected by her husband Zikos, finds solace in the arms of a gypsy. Zikos persecute lovers in a brawl at a nightclub accidentally stabs his wife.
Flesh on Fire
1971
3.7The sudden visit of Tassos's neighbor (Giorgos Armadaros) frustrates the effort for the suicide of Lena Sotou (Maria Ioannidou), a woman with broken nerves, who uncovers. With the consent of her husband, Dimitris (Stavros Pharmakis), who knows her secret sex life and coexistence, Lena enters a psychiatric clinic. Psychologist Nikolaos Antonios (Vasilis Mitsakis) learns that her mental condition is due both to the primary social condition of her place and to her mother's having her daughter and the man who loved a woman a fisherman. Antonios tries to help him or Lena be dragged by another patient, Libya Popi (Rena Kosmidou).
Sexomania
1974
5.1After a long decade of separation, a rising politician accompanies his ex-wife to the airport, thirsting for closure. As both fight with their inner demons, a suicide bomber threatens them. Will they find redemption this smiling afternoon?
A Joyful Afternoon
1979
1960s · 22 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Χάιδω
1967
6.0This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Oedipus the King
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Οι κολασμένοι
1964
5.5Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises herself as a boy named Pipis. As such, she meets a poor fisherman, Lefteris, and helps him on his way to Ioannina.
The Lady and the Tramp
1968
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Ο Γεροδήμος
1962
6.6A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic forces and their status in life, and love might conquer all.
Trouba '67
1967
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Αδούλωτη ράτσα
1969
7.5A countryman arrives in Athens to make it big and becomes a millionaire overnight. However, a duo of swindlers has set their sights on getting their hands on his fortune. Will he discover the hard way that more money means more problems?
The Lucky One
1968
6.5Captain Andreas, a widower master learns that the planned departure postponed and the crew discovers hidden in the ship's refrigerator a girl, Marina. The company and the kind of behavior makes him take her with him to his home in Poros, which is home to the sister of Royal and two nephews. The presence of the marina there inflamed passions and causes the scheming sister, culminating when he set sail for the trip. When his ship sinks and he is considered missing, his sister declares him dead, eliminates the Marina and trying to reap his fortune with the help of their lawyer. Some time later, Andrew returns secretly finds Marina, marries her and takes her to his home, where enforce order ...
Captain Fandis Bastounis
1968
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Η γενιά των ηρώων
1969
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Μενούσης: Ο λεβέντης της Ηπείρου
1969
6.8A deliberate injustice forces an orphaned music student to leave home, only to land a job as a pianist for an affluent woman's canaries. Now, it's time to turn the page. Can she find a bright future amid two hundred and one songbirds?
The 201 Canaries
1964
6.0We are in 1942, in the middle of the German Occupation, on an island opposite the coast of Asia Minor, where a mature woman, Katerina Rodeli, cares for a wounded resistance fighter named Kanaris. In her memory, there are images of the past, the panic of the Asia Minor catastrophe and especially the entrance of the tsets in her village. There she lost her three-year-old son, Konstantin, whom he never ceased to look for. However, the village's mackerel maharagrite handed it over to the Germans and, in the face of the danger, they were arrested along with the wounded and a boat ride on the Turkish coast to find themselves immediately enclosed in a refugee camp. His commander is a tough second lieutenant, Osen, who is bought by the English consulate of Izmir to transfer the fugitives to Egypt.
Persecution
1964
6.2The 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Η ώρα της οργής
1968
6.3No synopsis available yet.
The fate of the innocent
1965
5.1Andreas, nephew of the abbot of the Monastery of Dionysios, who died eight years previously, arrives at Agion Oros (Mount Athos) with a team of smugglers of antiquities, with the intention of stealing a gold cross set with precious gems, known as the Cross of Alexander the Great. He earns the trust of the meek and hospitable monks. However, a Jewish girl, Anna - whom, while still a baby during the war, her father had entrusted to the care of the hermit Vasileios - continues to pretend she is a young monk. She manages gradually to discover the entire scheme and acts to foil their plot.
Brother Anna
1963
6.1By a cruel fate, a pair of newborn twin brothers get separated, and one of them becomes a pampered Casanova, while the other, lands a job at the factory of his unknown sibling's stepdad. Will the polar opposite twins reunite?
The Twins
1964
5.5Loukas, a petty crook in prison, tries to exploit his connections with his fellow inmates to get ahead when he is released.
Groom for Crying
1962
6.1A Nazi officer arrives in occupied Athens in 1941 and falls in love with a Jewish girl, unaware of her true identity.
Treason
1964
10.0One of nine sons, Konstantis, convinces his mother to arrange the marriage of his only sister, Areti, to a stranger and swears on the Bible that he will go himself and fetch her if she is ever needed. When all nine sons succumb to an epidemic, leaving their mother alone, she curses Konstantis, who rises from his grave to find his sister and bring her back to the family home. Now thought to be a lost movie.
The Dead Brother's Oath
1969
7.0No synopsis available yet.
My Life Belongs To You
1965
Behind the camera
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ο γιός του πάρτα όλα
1986
NRSeven Against Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας, Hepta epi Thēbas; Latin: Septem contra Thebas) is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea.[2] It concerns the battle between an Argive army, led by seven champions including Polynices who were called the Seven against Thebes, and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters. The trilogy won the first prize at the Athens City Dionysia.
Seven Against Thebes
1983
NRFocusing on the Mastorochoria of Konitsa, the documentary attempts to raise questions about the Greek countryside throughout the years, the meaning of space and the love for our place. It also seeks to highlight the immeasurable values that can be a catalyst for the revitalization of these villages.
The Aging Land
2021

