Yannis Bostantzoglou

Acting

Yannis Bostantzoglou

Born 1951-09-12 · Athens, Greece

Yiannis Bostantzoglou (Greek: Γιάννης Μποσταντζόγλου, Athens, 12 September 1951) is a Greek actor. He studied acting at the Karolos Koun Art Theatre and graduated from the Katseli Theatre School in 1972. He has appeared in many films, plays and television series, playing characteristic roles. He has also worked as a narrator on radio shows.

Acting credits

Hostage poster
5.6

Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers hostage and demands a ransom of half and million euro, and safe passage to his homeland of Albania. Surrounded by police, the bus trundles towards the Albanian border and the tension mounts until the final harrowing conclusion.

Hostage

2005

Journey from Greece poster
6.2

Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repair their boat. In Istanbul, she encounters Avril, a nineteen-year-old French girl, alone and without any money, who came to Turkey as a voluntary worker with refugees. Djam, generous, cheeky, unpredictable, and free-spirited, takes Avril under her wing on the way to Mytilene. A journey filled with encounters, music, sharing, and hope.

Journey from Greece

2017

Πάμε Στοίχημα poster
NR

Takis goes on holiday with his sexy girlfriend, but they break up. Takis stays at the hotel and there he knows the beautiful Isabell but he claims it and another tourist Roulis ...

Πάμε Στοίχημα

2004

Free All Around poster
NR

Sissy tries to cope despite lots of problems. Her brother Harry asks her for financial support to produce his feature film about the first Greek rocket in space. Harry describes the plot of his film to Sissy so vividly that we also see his film on screen. Sissy's and Harry's stories meet at a certain point and they both help one another to find freedom.

Free All Around

2011

Σκάσε ξεφτίλα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Σκάσε ξεφτίλα

1985

Bird of Cyprus poster
7.5

The gangster kidnapping of a popular Greek actress in Athens, the adventurous wandering in the Mediterranean, the unexpected capture by the Turks and the venture to realize a bold dream.

Bird of Cyprus

2014

The Besotted poster
NR

Looking forward to seeing his daughter, Maro, again, Antonis Papastafidas, a wealthy landowner from Amaliada, decides to pay her a visit in Athens. However, Maro, a beautiful medical student, is fine on her own. After all, she has a close friend: the spirited, voluptuous temptress, Pelagia "Peggy" Katsikogianni. Of course, it doesn't take long for Antonis to become infatuated with Peggy. Now, the grizzled Casanova must have her. But, what would Maro think of her naughty father?

The Besotted

1987

Poker Face poster
6.4

Niki when she was still a child she had a gift. A stuffed parrot that brought her luck. Thanks to that her father and his friends were able to win in gambling in order to make a living. One day though a friend of her's steals the parrot and as a result her father goes bankrupt and ends in prison. Niki as an adult she has to fight back her old friend in a poker tournament. Things get tough thou when she falls in love with him.

Poker Face

2012

The Heart of the Beast poster
6.1

His advanced studies in philosophy have caused Stephanos to view all people as his inferiors. When he is discharged from the -obligatory in Greece- army service, he thinks the world belongs to him. In reality all that does belong to him are debts left by his mother who has just died and rejection by his formerly devoted girlfriend. Nikos, an old high school classmate, reappears in his life.

The Heart of the Beast

2005

Meteorites poster
NR

Djam, a Greek girl, is sent to Istanbul on a mission to find a motor-boat part of her uncle

Meteorites

2004

Tonight We Dine at Iokastis poster
3.8

When one fine morning a peaceful neighborhoods disrupted by the unexpected disappearance of a Latvian manicurist, Iocasti Papadamou joins forces with ingenious, albeit completely naive, neighbor in order to shed light on the bizarre case.

Tonight We Dine at Iokastis

2015

The Final Payoff poster
6.0

A former boxer, Grigoris, abandoned his dream long ago. He now follows the rules of the underworld, working for Markos. Together with his partner Christos, he has taken on the difficult role of collecting debts from people who are unable to pay. Through an adventurous life that includes threats, persecution, and robberies, Gregory meets Nefeli, a young actress with whom he falls in love. However, a well-hidden secret from Gregory's past will make him reevaluate his life and clash with everyone and everything in order to make the final repayment.

The Final Payoff

2014

Sun of a Beach poster
NR

A penniless writer comes to stay at his brother's seaside canteen to spend the summer. There, observing the erratic love behaviors of the patrons, he decides to write a novel, which will be based on all the incredible things he sees unfolding before him every day. As the novel progresses, the imaginary events begin to become more and more confused with the real ones. Through the ephemeral and frivolous relationships, a great romantic love is unexpectedly born that seems to come from another era. But has anything like this happened in reality?

Sun of a Beach

Parangelia! poster
7.5

The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespecting his brother Demos' zeibekiko, a traditional Greek dance.

Parangelia!

1980

My Best Friend poster
4.8

My Best Friend is the outrageous story of two men, friends since childhood, who have spent their lives tormenting one another. It is only when Constantinos discovers Alekos in bed with his wife that their friendship and their respective marriages finally collapse into a death spiral of sex, deceit and irrepressible humor. As events unfold another deception, one concealed by both men's wives, opens the door to incredible erotic intrigue.

My Best Friend

2001

Poios gelaei teleftaios poster
NR

Tasos dies in a car accident, but he is given five more minutes of life.

Poios gelaei teleftaios

2005

Norway poster
5.1

In 1984, photophobic Zano arrives in Athens and quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city.

Norway

2014

Good Evening to You poster
7.1

Stathis is a teenager who owns a pirate radio station that broadcasts at the same frequency used by another pirate radio station, owned by Stamatis and his friends. This leads to many conflicts between them, and as if this wasn't enough, Stathis is also desperately in love with Koula and has to face her huge boyfriend Kyriakos...

Good Evening to You

1982

Οι ατσίδες με τα ροζ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Οι ατσίδες με τα ροζ

1987

The Manaviko poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Manaviko

2017

Είσαι γάτα αγάπη μου poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Είσαι γάτα αγάπη μου

1985

Happy Day poster
5.1

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead.

Happy Day

1976

No Budget Story poster
6.5

In order to secure money for the production of his first film, a young man asks help from a film producer. The producer, however, was involved with pornographic films.

No Budget Story

1997

L poster
5.3

The protagonist, aged 40, lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who can’t drive. The driver provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, he loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport.

L

2012