Thanasis Papageorgiou

Acting

Thanasis Papageorgiou

Born

1936-02-16 (90)

Place of birth

Kesariani, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

14 titles

Thanasis Papageorgiou (Greek: Θανάσης Παπαγεωργίου) is a Greek director and actor. It has staged approximately 130 plays and is in its 53rd theatrical season. He was born in Kaisariani on February 16, 1938. He studied Theater at the Drama School of Christos Vachliotis. His first theatrical appearance took place in 1962 in the troupe of K. Livadeas. Until 1965 he collaborated with the troupes V. Diamantopoulou-M. Alkaiou, Titou Vandis, Mirandas-Barkoulis, United Artists, Eleftheras Skenis, etc. so he leaves the theater and works in Cinema, shooting as a director, screenwriter and actor the film "Epi eschatis prodossia" (1968) On television he directed plays for the Monday Theater. He also di…

Known for

Madame Sousou poster
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A classic series that follows the exploits of Madame Sousou, a poor woman who is obsessed with the high society lifestyle. Even though she's poor, she behaves as if she's aristocracy. Her behaviour makes people laugh at her all the time, and embarrasses her husband who is a normal down-to-earth man. She is an aristocrat inside her heart and one day her dream and fantasy becomes true.

Madame Sousou

1986

Tailor poster
6.8

A coming-of-old-age story of an eccentric Tailor who doesn't quit fit into the world and has isolated himself into the attic of the family's tailoring shop. On the verge of losing everything, he finally gets triggered: with a wondrously strange bricolage coach-a tailor shop on wheels- he reinvents his life and his craft. He changes the brides of Athens and falls in love for the first time in his 50s.

Tailor

2020

Cartes Postales from Greece poster
8.0

Based on the books of famous author Victoria Hislop, the series transports us to Crete and London, through 12 riveting, independent stories, starring Andreas Κonstantinou. Joseph, an introverted, Greek-born English archaeologist, is planning to propose to his girlfriend and has arranged a trip to his birthplace, Crete. When she doesn't show up at the airport, he sets out on a solitary walkabout of the island. He starts sending postcards to his ex-girlfriend's house in London, with stories he hears or experiences. He doesn't know, however, that the postcards are received by the house's new occupant, Eli, who develops feelings for this mysterious man.

Cartes Postales from Greece

2021

Lula LeBlanc poster
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26th of September 1999. Alekos is dead. His teenage granddaughter, Margarita, refuses to attend his funeral and takes advantage of her parents’ absence to throw a small party at home. Three days earlier, unaware that this would be his last night, Alekos attends a reunion of old friends to celebrate the birthday of Lula, his first love, who now suffers from dementia.

Lula LeBlanc

2024

Το 13ο Κιβώτιο poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Το 13ο Κιβώτιο

1992

Son of Sofia poster
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11-year-old Misha is coming from Russia to Athens during the 2004 Olympic Games to live with his mother. He does not know there is a father waiting for him.

Son of Sofia

2017

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

1960s · 1 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

On High Treason poster
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In a small village, Michalis, who suffers from amnesia, does not remember that he and three of his fellow villagers were surrounded by the enemy. Specifically, on their way back to their village after the collapse of the Albanian front and the German invasion, somewhere in the Larissa area, the men were supposed to meet up with resistance fighters. However, Michalis does not remember the trap they fell into, where his two companions were killed and he himself was wounded, while the fourth was absent. Yannis had disappeared but suddenly returns to his home, and his presence upsets Michalis. Yannis' father quickly understands why: his son, in order to save his own skin, had betrayed his friends to the Germans. An honest man and a fiery patriot, he tries his son on charges of high treason, finds him guilty, and executes him.

On High Treason

1968

On High Treason poster
10.0

In a small village, Michalis, who suffers from amnesia, does not remember that he and three of his fellow villagers were surrounded by the enemy. Specifically, on their way back to their village after the collapse of the Albanian front and the German invasion, somewhere in the Larissa area, the men were supposed to meet up with resistance fighters. However, Michalis does not remember the trap they fell into, where his two companions were killed and he himself was wounded, while the fourth was absent. Yannis had disappeared but suddenly returns to his home, and his presence upsets Michalis. Yannis' father quickly understands why: his son, in order to save his own skin, had betrayed his friends to the Germans. An honest man and a fiery patriot, he tries his son on charges of high treason, finds him guilty, and executes him.

On High Treason

1968