Lefteris Voyatzis

Acting

Lefteris Voyatzis

Born 1944-10-12 · Kallithea, Athens Prefecture, Greece

Lefteris Vogiatzis (Greek: Λευτέρης Βογιατζής, 12 October 1944 – 2 May 2013) was a Greek theatre actor and director. Vogiatzis was born in Kallithea, Athens in 1945. He studied English literature at the University of Athens, he attended the Reinhurt Seminar in Vienna for two years and finished. Michailidis' Drama School in Athens. He first appeared on stage in 1973. Then he collaborated with Spyros Evangelatos, and the famous actress Elli Lampeti. Over the years, he played many roles in classical repertoire. In 1981 he founded the theatre company the Stage and in 1988 the new Stage. He directed and starred in many performances, while in 1989, he founded the laboratory of ancient drama, directing Antigone by Sophocles. Successful shows of his followed, such as "With Power from Kifissia", "Misanthrope", "Helen", "Night of the Owl", "Persians", "Ash and Shadow", "Clean Anymore" and other major plays. At the cinema, he starred almost exclusively in movies of Nikos Panagiotopoulos, with whom he was connected with a great friendship. On 30 April 2013, there was a rumour Lefteris Vogiatzis had died of cancer.

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Athens - Istanbul

2008

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

Acropol poster
6.0

1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ex-wonder-child of movies, who now runs an agency for extras. At first, Lakis is surprised by the prince's proposal, but finally decides to try his luck on the stage of the legendary theater.

Acropol

1996

The frogs poster
NR

The comedy was written and played at the end of the 5th century BC, at the end of the Peloponnesian War, a time of decline of the Athenian Republic. Aristophanes, on the occasion of the political situation in his country, tries to help his fellow citizens by presenting this comedy. Dionysus and his slave Xanthias, with the instructions of Hercules, go down to Hades looking for a poet, who will bring his city out of the impasse in which it has reached. After the poetic struggle between Euripides and Aeschylus, Dionysus chooses the latter to save Athens and they leave Hades together.

The frogs

1977

The Limousine poster
5.0

Three friends from 60s Paris attempt a road trip to modern-day Greece, looping in and out of fantasy and questioning absolutely everything. A situation comedy and a coming-of-age fairy tale or, according to the director himself, "a film that can be heard". Starring Nikos Kouris, Doukissa Nomikou, Dimitris Katalifos and Pavlos Haikalis. Lifetime Achievement Award to Nikos Panagiotopoulos

The Limousine

2014

Eastern Periphery poster
9.0

A young chemical engineer finds a new job in a multinational corporation. As he climbs the career ladder, he loses his humanity.

Eastern Periphery

1979

I Dream of My Friends poster
5.0

Four episodes, four instances from a man’s life covering 25 years, from 1965 in Germany to 1990 in Athens. The episodes seem to be irrelevant to one another, yet they all focus on male powerplay, reveal the self-consciousness and moderation of the protagonist’s idiosyncrasy and depict some special aspects of the Greek male mentality. Probably Nikos Panayotopoulos’ most personal film, covering a substantial period of his generation’s years, “I’m dreaming of my friends” is based on the book by Dimitris Nollas, looks a lot like a “road movie” and features an all-male cast, as if there’s no room for women in it.

I Dream of My Friends

1993

Hommage poster
NR

A documentary tribute to the late theater director Lefteris Vogiatzes. An uncanny, dreamy tour to the world of Lefteris and the Theater of Cyclades Street, full of associations. Images, documents, sounds, rare archival material, excerpts from his performances, memories, and interviews with his collaborators, are harmoniously intertwined in one composition. The theatrical space becomes a living map of memories, imagination, and interpretation.

Hommage

2020

The fruit carriers of Athens poster
4.4

A writer, locked in his house, writes about a young man who wanders in Athens and tries its fruits.

The fruit carriers of Athens

2010

Melodrama? poster
6.2

A 30-year-old man returns from America suffering an existential crisis. He goes to Corfu to see his sick mother and tries to find happiness through a desperate love affair.

Melodrama?

1980

Wandering poster
8.0

A lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Greek-Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a relative of his. Through a rich tapestry of characters, Christofis creates an ode to the Hellenic Diaspora.

Wandering

1979