Niki Triantafillidi

Acting

Niki Triantafillidi

Born 1942-01-01 · Athens, Greece

Niki Triantafyllidi (Athens, November 27, 1942 - Athens, May 13, 2013) was a Greek actress, director and writer. She was the daughter of composer Panos Triantafyllidis. She graduated from the Drama School of the National Theatre. She made her theatrical debut in 1963, in the play "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico García Lorca with the Aleka Katseli troupe. She acted in several Greek films. She collaborated with important directors such as Alexis Minotis, Minos Volanakis, Lefteris Charonitis and others. In 1969 she was for a short time artistic director of the theater organization "Christian Theater", where she staged Eugene O'Neill's play, "Endless Days". In 1970 she won the directing award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, for the short film "My Ordinary Dream", while in 1971 she was honored by the "Center for Study and Research of the Greek Theater" with the "Marika Kotopouli" award as the best actress of the period 1970-71. She taught at the State Theater of Northern Greece, at the Pelos Katselis school and at the Mary Traga school. He was a founding member of the Ensemble Theater and the Panhellenic Cultural Movement and in the 1990s he founded the "Triantafyllidis" Theater in Vathis Square.

Acting credits

The Cannon and the Nightingale poster
7.0

A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2

The Cannon and the Nightingale

1968

Glory Sky poster
7.1

During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

Glory Sky

1962

Amok poster
5.6

Ten women hide out on an deserted island in the Ageian after an prison break where seven men, led by an ex-Nazi, arrive on the island to search for a buried treasure and force the women to dig for them, until one strong-willed woman, named Sarah, decides to plot a revolt.

Amok

1963

Χωρίς Συνείδηση poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Χωρίς Συνείδηση

1972

Αντίο για πάντα poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Αντίο για πάντα

1967

There Are No Deserters poster
7.0

August 1944, and a captain in the Greek army in the Middle East, Jason, secretly disembarks on an island with the mission of gathering information on the state of the German defensive positions, in view of the imminent landing of the Allied Forces. To complete his mission, he makes contact with some rebels, but the Germans are aware of his presence and arrest twelve men to force him to surrender. Shortly before the deadline expires, a local man who had been declared a deserter shortly before the war began and had been in hiding, presents himself at his post and is executed, making his wife and son proud.

There Are No Deserters

1970

The barker poster
6.3

A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.

The barker

1964

Καρδιές που ξέρουν ν’ αγαπούν poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Καρδιές που ξέρουν ν’ αγαπούν

1967

Παγίδα poster
8.0

In the Turkish-occupied Greece of the 18th century, Menousis when the Turks would kill his wife, decides to climb the mountains and along with the thieves to fight for the liberation of his country.

Παγίδα

1962

A girl different from the others poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A girl different from the others

1968

Damned love poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Damned love

1968

Astrapogiannos poster
5.3

The 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

No artwork available
NR

One of the main characteristics of the ancient Greek world was the absolute freedom to express love in any form of art. The film describes the flourishing of freedom and its achievements in every field, as well as their gradual prohibition, when after the end of the Greco-Roman period, the joyful treatment of life, love and death was juxtaposed with guilt and sin.

Eroticism in the Ancient Greek Art

1983

Sunday's dream poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sunday's dream

1970

Euridice BA 2037 poster
6.7

A modern retelling of the Orpheus myth where Euridice, code number BA 2037, is trapped in a metaphorical hell-house, waiting for rescue from her lover, Orpheus.

Euridice BA 2037

1975

To nyfopazaro poster
8.0

Three friends, on a cruise in the Ionian Sea, throw erotic messages in bottles into the sea and fantasize about the women in their lives.

To nyfopazaro

1969

The fate of the innocent poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

The fate of the innocent

1965

Beautiful days poster
8.3

A mysterious woman arrives on the Greek island Patmos.

Beautiful days

1970

I'm begging you my love poster
5.5

Two poor young people, Martha and Manos, have grown up together and are in love, but the financial problems of the girl's family will lead her to marry a rich man. Manos, prompted by their separation, will write a song that will pave the way for his success, but will also bring him closer to another woman, whom he will marry...

I'm begging you my love

1970

Dirty city poster
4.5

Mikes, the head of sanitation for a large city, is a ruthless blackmailer who pressures his wife Anna to divorce him so he can marry his mistress. Callous and insensitive as he is, he has made her life a living hell. Anna does not want to divorce him because she is pregnant with his child and fears social condemnation. One night, she is attacked by a man who tries to rape her, but she is saved by a passerby, Alexis.

Dirty city

1965

To Our Teacher, with Love poster
6.3

A young teacher arrives in a village that has been almost completely deserted by emigration and tries to educate the children and bridge the differences between the residents, which stem from the machinations of a powerful landowner.

To Our Teacher, with Love

1969

Κατρακύλισμα... στο βούρκο poster
9.0

The wealthy and spoiled son of a successful industrialist decides to play with an honest, love-smitten woman, unbeknownst to him that she is the secretary of his father.

Κατρακύλισμα... στο βούρκο

1962

My Bitter Love poster
3.3

A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother's house (Eleni Zafiriou). It turns into a pirated taxi but has an accident. To repair the damage he suffered, he is forced to work for a wealthy man (Theodoros Moridis). He undertakes to make the driver of his spoiled daughter (Miranda Kounellaki). It will affect her and transform her into a responsible person, so she falls in love with him. At the same time, the young person gains the respect and appreciation of her father.

My Bitter Love

1964

Ο τάφος των εραστών poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο τάφος των εραστών

1968