Giorgos Konstas

Acting

Giorgos Konstas

Born 1949-01-01 · Piraeus, Greece

George Konstas (born in Piraeus in 1949) studied at the Drama School of the Piraeus Association and at the Piraeus Conservatory (classical singing and flute). He also studied dance and worked in Zouzou Nikoloudi's Chorika and Rallou Manou's Chorodrama. For several years he worked at the National Theater with directors Alexis Minotis, Alexis Solomos, Spyros Evangelatos and others. From 1983 to 1987 he took over the theater department of the Alberus Magnus Gymnasium in Southern Germany.m In 1991-1992, through the Municipality of Corinth and the support of the European Union, he directed a program on the Study of Ancient Drama, which resulted in the creation of a large theater group and the staging of Euripides' tragedy "Bacchae" in the ancient theaters of Corinth. He starred in many theatrical works such as "The Handmaids" by Jean Genet, directed by himself, "Death and the Daughter" by Dorfman, directed by Pantelis Voulgaris, "Totenfloss" by Harald Müller, directed by Ersis Vasilikiotis, "Trachiniae" by Sophocles, directed by Nikos Diamantis, "Behind the Scenes" by Sartre, directed by himself, "The Conservator", a play of his own, directed by himself. He played key roles in Greek cinema and television films. George Konstas passed away on Saturday, January 17, at the age of 65.

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

The Woman Who Dreamed poster
7.3

Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.

The Woman Who Dreamed

1988

Varieté poster
5.0

An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.

Varieté

1985

Earth and Water poster
7.7

Nicolas is a shepherd. He is around twenty years old, thin and spirited. Constantina is eighteen years old. Constantina fell in love with Nikolas the very first time she saw him with his lyre at the bull sacrifice ritual. She entered the whirlpool of ecstasy and became his lover. Their relationship was clearly physical, all other things were setting them apart. Constantina decides that they should break up. "We come from different places and head in different directions", she says. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she does not tell Nikolas.

Earth and Water

1999

The Christmas Tango poster
7.4

At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.

The Christmas Tango

2011

The Athenians poster
7.0

This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.

The Athenians

1990

Love Me Not? poster
5.6

Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.

Love Me Not?

1989

In the Shadow of Fear poster
5.8

A music composer tries to deposit money in his bank one morning, and is accused of counterfeiting. Harassed by the police, the gang of counterfeiters and a stranger, he becomes panic-stricken. The unjust charge brought against him ignites his deeper feelings of guilt which stem from his sterile existence and, mainly, from his inability to produce creative work. Then he flees and begins wandering in an unfamiliar "country" where his painful adventures will finally prove redeeming. The film is an existential drama in the form of a "dreamlike" thriller.

In the Shadow of Fear

1988

Reverse course poster
NR

As a coincidental event unites a publisher and a hospital manager, sinister revelations entangle the couple with the aspiration of an editor-in-chief. Will he unearth the truth? After all, almost everybody has a skeleton in the closet.

Reverse course

1987

A minute of silence poster
7.0

A moment of silence for a musician, which becomes an eternity.

A minute of silence

1989

The Years of the Big Heat poster
5.4

One woman's lonely search for the truth about her mother's murder.

The Years of the Big Heat

1992

Trip to Australia poster
9.0

After 11-year-old Petros loses his father in a car accident in Melbourne, Australia, his mother decides to move the family to her homeland, Greece. Petros has been planning to run away from home ever since the big move. After persuading his classmate, Adonis, to join him, the two boys decide to make the journey to Australia together. Their parents look for the children all over Greece to no avail. The only one who knows the boys' whereabouts is their best friend, whom nobody believes. Petros and Adonis' pictures are published all over the press, but no one comes forward with any information. Meanwhile, the boys continue on their journey...

Trip to Australia

1989

Ballad of the Lost Moonlight poster
NR

One night, a woman and a man in a house, while outside the city lives and entertains.

Ballad of the Lost Moonlight

2002

The Woman Is... A Tough Person poster
4.8

Johnny Maniatis (Anthony Kafetzopoulos) is a successful advertiser and ... womanizer. Georgia (Fay Kokkinopoulou), currently the woman of his life, wants urgently to make a child. His mother, Aspasia (Jenny Roussea) is absent. His faithful secretary, Herse (Yota Festa) is tired of the irresponsible behavior, but tries to help him. His daughter Artemis (Eleni Apostolopoulos) is arrested aain for stealing the eve of her trial, while the former wife Martha (Mania Papadimitriou) is throwing him all the blame ...

The Woman Is... A Tough Person

2005

Of Legend and Folk Tale poster
9.0

A triptych film inspired by Peloponnesian folk tales: "The Changelings", "The Sinner", and "The Antichrist".

Of Legend and Folk Tale

1993

Rom poster
7.0

In his film, Menelaos Karamaghiolis attempts to trace the evolution of the gypsy race in Europe, particularly in Greece, through four different points of view. These are expressed in the narrations of four people: the Teacher, the Photographer, Tamara, the old gypsy lady and the young girl Aima.

Rom

1989

Athens Blues poster
5.7

A group of men in their sixties that spend the August nights in Athens outside a pharmacy during night shift, an ambulance driver who has an affair with a younger girl, a middle-aged couple who have invented a lie to renew their passion for one another, a child pretending to sleepwalk in the streets of Athens, two younger people who are tied together in an office after a burglar attack, and other amorous encounters during the same night.

Athens Blues

2001

Countryside House poster
NR

Retired in his ex wife's house in the countryside, author Andreas Politis is trying to complete the writing of a book. During his stay, a murder occurs. The following events inspire the writer, who starts getting involved when he unintentionally provides the police with some clues.

Countryside House

1994

Three seasons poster
10.0

An existential reflection on time and gender.

Three seasons

1996

The Dream Factory poster
8.0

In a dystopian society after an unexpected epidemic citizens can't have dreams. Only few people are privillaged to dream. They operate small underground companies where they can have other people dreams.

The Dream Factory

1990

Birth City poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Birth City

1988

Life is a thousand and a half poster
10.0

A writer sees the people around him exclusively as book heroes, his decision to write a book about them causes him real life problems.

Life is a thousand and a half

1995

Shadows of the World poster
NR

An allegorical film about the existence or nonexistence of Man. Confronted with the need and will of Man to live, a question is raised: Does the instinct of survival finally lead us to survival or does it inevitably lead us to our complete destruction? Is conflict unavoidable? Is the need for alliance and for a meeting of minds an illusion? And who will prevail in the end? Human nature or Nature?

Shadows of the World