Thanos Grammenos

Acting

Thanos Grammenos

Born — Died

1927-01-01 — 2019-03-14

Place of birth

Agrinio, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

Thanos Grammenos (Greek: Θάνος Γραμμένος) born in 1927 in Agrinio, he studied at the drama schools of Sokratis Karatinos and the National Theater and participated in several classic films of Greek cinema such as Thiasos and The Stone Years. Grammenos became widely known from the role of the servant Mathios of the film family of the "Fourtunakis" in the film "The Fairy and the Boy". He was one of the co-founders of the cooperative troupe of S.E.H. Arma Theater, while he also worked as an assistant director in the cinema. He worked as a journalist in the literary magazine Efitheorisi Technis, where he wrote theater and cinema reviews and in 1974 he founded the publishing company Thymari. (Sou…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 7 titles

Alexander the Great poster
7.1

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.

Alexander the Great

1980

Caution, Danger! poster
8.5

A brutal father, shaped by the right-wing deep state, forces his two sons and daughter into deadly ambushes to rob passing cars. Bound by an incestuous relationship with his daughter, he dominates the family, driving one son to seek escape while the other, disabled, struggles to emulate him.

Caution, Danger!

1983

The Children of the Swallow poster
6.0

A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that began with the Civil War. The two men’s search is interrupted when a key person refuses to speak

The Children of the Swallow

1987

Ο παράδεισος ανοίγει με αντικλείδι poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο παράδεισος ανοίγει με αντικλείδι

1987

Stone Years poster
6.1

The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974.

Stone Years

1985

On Course poster
7.5

A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War.

On Course

1985

Παράξενη συνάντηση poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Παράξενη συνάντηση

1986

1970s · 10 titles

The Travelling Players poster
7.2

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.

The Travelling Players

1975

Υπόθεση Πολκ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Υπόθεση Πολκ

1978

Reconstruction poster
7.0

An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event.

Reconstruction

1970

Soul and Flesh poster
3.7

A pilot complicates his life with his wife and daughter when he starts an affair with another woman.

Soul and Flesh

1974

Days of '36 poster
6.4

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

Days of '36

1972

The Hunters poster
7.6

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…

The Hunters

1977

The Iron Gate poster
8.5

In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the most of the adventurism inspired in them by the post-war era and trying to make a life for themselves against the backdrop of the post-dictatorship conservative regime, the two heroes gradually lose their political conciousness and social identity and are led to ruin.

The Iron Gate

1978

Lieutenant Natassa poster
6.6

The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian war, she met Orestis . With the German invasion, Orestis, who was an officer in the Greek army, left for the Middle East. She followed him and accompanied him back to occupied Greece on a mission. She was arrested, interrogated and tortured and was finally sentenced to execution.

Lieutenant Natassa

1970

The Colors of Iris poster
6.4

A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early morning hours. An unknown man suddenly comes into the shot, then walks into the sea holding an umbrella and seizes to exist, before the bewildered eyes of the whole crew. After the police are notified, a confusing array of red tape manoeuvers begins, revealing the close affiliations of the Authorities with the advertising company manager and the whole mechanism of Mass Media, all of which are trying not to investigate the event but to conceal or even exploit it in their own interest. Only the musician involved in that commercial is trying to figure out what really happened.

The Colors of Iris

1974

I Loved an Armchair poster
5.9

Years ago, Grigoris was forced to sell four velvet armchairs to the junk dealer. After the death of his aunt, he was informed that her entire legacy, which was a box of jewelry, was hidden in one of those four armchairs. In the meantime, the armchairs had been sold to other people, and so a desperate quest for the right armchair begins, resulting in many and sometimes grotesque adventures.

I Loved an Armchair

1971

1960s · 3 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera