Acting
Aleka Katselli
Born 1917-10-19 · Athens, Greece
Aleka (Alexandra) Katseli, née Mazaraki (Greek: Αλέκα Κατσέλη, Athens, October 19, 1917 - September 11, 1994), was a great Greek dramatic actress and a qualified dance artist. She first appeared on the stage at the "Karolos Koun" Art Theater in 1942, during the Occupation. After liberation, and after a series of successes, she was hired in 1945 at the National Theater, where she made her first appearance as Portia in William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" under the instruction of her later husband, director Pelos Katseli. Two years later, upon leaving the National Theater, she appeared as the leading actress of the dramatic stage in various dramatic works by other companies. In 1950, she was rehired at the National Theatre, appearing in key roles in George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" and Dionysios Roma's "Three Worlds". At the same time, she starred in the film "Lycaena" and took part in the dance dramas "Marsyas" and "Forms of a Woman" of the Greek Dance Drama by Manos Hadjidakis (1949), continuing a rich theatrical career culminating in 1986, where she starred in the play "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca. Her participation in Greek cinema, television and radio was notable.
Acting credits
7.0Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Electra
1962
6.9An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Never on Sunday
1960
9.0This is one of the many variations on the Romeo and Juliet myth, in which young love reunites two children, Dimitris and Myrto, whose families hate each other to death. Myrto's father caused Dimitris' father to be financially ruined and, although both men are dead, the hatred of Dimitris' mother, Theophile, does not seem to fade. This time, the feeling between the two young people blooms again under the sun of Chalkidiki, where Myrto and her aunt Eleni are going on vacation. Dimitris does not seek any revenge and his interest in Myrto is sincere and guileless. The feeling is mutual, while the passions and hatreds of the past fade away under the blue sky and the hot sun...
I want to live in the sun.
1966
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Η Επιστροφή της Μήδειας
1968
8.0Psarogiannos lives with his wife and five children in a seaside village. One day, a sailor appears, seeking revenge and wanting to fight Psarogiannos. Psarogiannos realizes that the sailor is his son from another woman. When the time comes for the confrontation, neither of them can hurt the other. In the end, Psarogiannos' family gains another child.
Psarogiannos
1966
6.2Maya is a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda, a Bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
A Dream of Passion
1978
6.0Two villages are in conflict over the waters of a region, but the love between two young people will restore order.
The Abduction of Persephone
1956
8.0The captain Alekos Nikolopoulos doesn't get along with his wife. One day, he receives a letter from a woman he had met before the war who reminds him that she is pregnant.
That's How My Life Ended
1952
6.0No synopsis available yet.
The lover of the shepherdess
1955
7.0Souliotes learn that Ali pasha is planning to attack. Photos Tzavellas and his men are ready to defend their freedom. They repel repeatedly Ali's army but after a prolonged siege the decide that they are not to be taken alive. All women go to Zaloggo where they fall off the cliffs dancing, while the men decide to die exploding a convent at Kougi mountain.
Souliotes
1972
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Taksidi me ton erota
1959
6.0A small and poor girl who lives with her sick adoptive grandmother knows and falls in love with a apotakto Air Force. Friend is an Aviation Group Captain. He and his wife have lost their little girl for several years. It turns out that the poor girl was their daughter.
Heaven Is Ours
1953
No synopsis available yet.
Οιδίπους τύρρανος
1974
6.2Alekos is a journalist who hunts down all those who live in the dregs of society, until he realizes that the real enemy is corruption, not its victims. Dimitris is a student who fights against social inequality with his own strength. And then there is Stefanos, who has been left disabled by a German bullet and looks at Germans with hatred because he cannot forget.
The Enemies
1965
8.0Wanting to have nothing to do with the feud that has decimated not only his own family but also that of his neighbors, an irenic teacher faces his childhood sweetheart who yearns to kill him. Can the feared she-wolf see the error of her ways?
The She-Wolf
1951