
Acting
Dimos Starenios
Born — Died
1909-09-15 — 1983-10-23
Place of birth
Cairo, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
58 titles
Dimos Starenios (September 15, 1909 – October 23, 1983) was a Greek actor. Dimos Starenios was born in Cairo, to Egyptian parents in 1909. At a young age, he settled in Greece and studied acting. He acted in many films, including with Lambros Konstantaras. He distinguished himself in "bad" roles, such as the usurer or the moneylender. He is also credited with the infamous line: "The Germans love us, they came as friends", as we can see in the film The Dawn of Victory. His performance in the television adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' book Christ Recrucified (1975) in the role of old Lada is considered legendary. He had first played the same role in 1956 in the theater with the Manos Katrakis…
Known for
6.5The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidas, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.
The 300 Spartans
1962
8.0No synopsis available yet.
O Hristos xanastavronetai
1975
5.5The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
Experts on the Football Field
1956
6.2During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.
Weak Spot
1975
6.31920s Greece is occupied by the Turks. A country in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. A small community conduct their annual Passion Play. The leading citizens, under auspices of the Patriarch, choose the actors: a stuttering shepherd as Jesus, the town butcher as Judas, the town prostitute as Mary Magdalene, and so on. As the story unfolds, the Passion becomes a reality.
He Who Must Die
1957
Love story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.
Act of Reprisal
1964
Film credits
1970s · 13 titles
6.2During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.
Weak Spot
1975
6.01940. Anna stay alone, her husband her brother her father leave for the war with the Italians. The attack of the Germans will give a hard blow to her family. She will continue to fight, approaching the German commander of the area.
A Woman in the Resistance
1970
4.7In 1943, a commando team wants to try to destroy the largest airport of the Germans in Crete. The leader of the commando, Nikitas is Cretan, but Lefteris, who is the leader of the resistance group, refuses to help him. Eventually the mission succeeds, but Nikitas is captured. Then the resistance fighters attack in prison and release the prisoners who were to be executed.
The Dawn Of Victory
1971
4.2Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disappointment, so all the money he buys a ticket to Australia. But while the young man is waiting for departure in his life to happen a new love experience. A chance meeting with Isabella on the ship that was carrying him to Athens, would be for Angelos another test, would lead to a meeting with the past and will be the key to unlocking the old crime.
Provocation
1971
6.8Lampros, a successful journalist and his wife, Christina, who also writes in a magazine, have been constantly confused. In each of these battles, nostalgia refers to Stephanos, a youth of love. One night Lambros meets Stephanos, who after many years does not respond to his old image. But he avoids telling his wife, not to be disappointed. She thinks she is beating her, hiding her where she was all night and starting the divorce process. When I add to all this and the flirting of a young lawyer, Christina's mother will take over the problem ...
The Deeds of Jealousy
1971
9.0A young woman loses her mother and decides to take over the family business, coming into conflict with her stepfather. She marries her lover, but a fight between them leads her to run away. Their separation is temporary.
A life without love
1970
6.7A woman murders her disabled husband and informs his brother (with whom she is having an affair), but she realizes she has misdialed and accidentally confessed her crime to a stranger. The caller attempts to blackmail her, but when he tries to rape her she kills him in the struggle. Worse still, her doctor and lover inform her to say nothing because her husband has been dead for eight months and everything that has happened she has imagined.
Frenzy
1971
5.6Marios was the abuser convicted. The day he is released from prison meets Danae, which he grants a villa and a luxury car with the assertion that performs the last wish of the deceased husband, for whose account was fraud.
What a Waste!
1970
7.0The daughter of a wealthy shipowner is kidnapped by a ruthless gang and her father terrorized.
The Abductors
1972
3.4Under the scorching sun of the rugged Greek countryside, the young star-crossed lovers, Aggelos and Irini, dare to dream of a better future in dazzling but faceless Athens. Amid fear and prejudice, the couple has planned everything down to the last detail; however, the lack of money, and a momentary lapse of judgment, will condemn the two companions to a life of misery, as every police officer from their small village to the bustling capital is already informed of Aggelos' crime. Now, they have no other choice but to swallow their pride and hide. But, the road to Athens is long and perilous, and only God knows what dangers lie ahead. Will the runaway lovers ever find happiness?
Image of Love
1972
10.0Lefteris, who has been sentenced to death, confesses to the priest the truth about the crime that led to his conviction. A flashback to the past begins, through which we watch as all the events unfold, in which a beautiful and fatal woman has played a leading role.
Captives of Pleasure
1971
7.0The owner of a ship falls in love with the ship's captain, but the war will ruin their plans for marriage. The captain goes missing, and her accountant pushes her into the arms of his brother.
Martha, the Woman of Sorrow
1970
6.0Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.
Kierion
1974
1960s · 23 titles
6.5The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidas, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.
The 300 Spartans
1962
Love story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.
Act of Reprisal
1964
6.1After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship called the Golden Fleece. Once Tintin and the captain arrive in Istanbul, where the ship is anchored, they meet Mr. Karabine, a businessman who stubbornly insists on buying it even though it is in a dilapidated state.
Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
1961
6.8An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Never on Sunday
1960
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Τα παιδιά του λιμανιού
1969
6.7A newlywed man who has just completed his national service, Alekos Stathakis, is trying to get over his class' misery, but doesn't have the necessary "equipment". He conceives an ambitious plan and submits it to a great concrete factory. He seems to believe that success is just around the corner and shares his illusion with his wife and his father. When his plan is rejected by the company, he keeps it to himself, making things even worse. He keeps leaving home to seemingly go to work and wanders to no purpose in Athens. He watches the world around him without really seeing anything, until a fatal accident ends his tragedy
The 7th Day of Creation
1966
6.0This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Oedipus the King
1968
7.2Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the destruction of Smyrni. From an old man learns that his father did not die but was arrested by the Turks. He decides to follow the scientific mission of Professor John Anderson in Turkey, to find traces of his father.
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
1969
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Σαπφώ
1961
7.1Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings.
Thanos and Despina
1967
10.0In mid-1960s Perama, a popular singer plans to marry a sweet woman, not because he loves her, but because he hates her boyfriend who truly loves her.
Δύσκολοι δρόμοι
1965
8.0A promising civil engineer, Stelios, delays his marriage to his beloved Anna because he wants to marry off his sisters first. When Anna becomes engaged to a wealthy sailor and his plans for a major project are rejected, Stelios leaves for Kuwait to work. In an accident, he loses his sight and returns to Greece. Anna will wait for him—since she never married and remains faithful to him—and with the help of a doctor, Stelios will have his eyes healed. His luck has changed radically and the same man who initially rejected his plans will now hire him in his business.
In the vertigo of life
1969
8.0A young man, a womanizer and gambler, undertakes the murder of a woman in order to pay his debts. She lives in the castle of Monemvasia and when they get to know each other, their life will change because they fall in love.
Monemvasia
1964
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Αντίο για πάντα
1967
5.8Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works as a book representative, while their friend Michalis is a pirate taxi-driver. The robbery is successful, and they feel excited.
Robbery in Athens
1969
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Το κορίτσι με τα βουρκωμένα μάτια
1966
7.0Poor and unappreciated writer besieged by producer of cinema to give consent for turning a book into a movie.
Stratis Has Strayed
1969
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Ου Κλέψεις
1965
6.8A model (Elena Nathanail) is on vacation with her sailor husband (Thodoros Roumpanis), and she falls in love with an employee (Spyros Fokas) who works in the hotel where they are staying. She confesses her feelings to her husband, and he abandons her. The young woman hooks up with with the employee, who goes with her to Athens. There, their passion – and her crisis - will reach their peak.
Queen of Clubs
1966
8.0Accused of stabbing his nightclub singer mistress to death, unscrupulous dockhand Christos is on the run. But he swears he's innocent. Could the harbour bum be telling the truth?
The Harbor Bum
1961
5.0Byzantium, 6th century AD, and Emperor Michael II convenes a meeting to elect a wife for his regent, Theophilus, who, although charmed by the nineteen-year-old princess Cassiane, ultimately chooses Theodora. His general, Acillas, who is in love with Cassiane, is appointed commander of the forces in Sicily and, before leaving, obtains Cassiane's promise that she will marry him, even though she does not love him. In Sicily, the noblewoman Irene falls in love with him, but he cannot forget Cassiane. Theophilus secretly meets Cassiane, who has begun to write religious hymns. Rumors that Cassiane is the regent's mistress reach the ears of Aquila, who rushes to Constantinople with the intention of killing Theophilus, but is himself killed by the palace guards. After this, Cassiane locks herself away in a monastery and devotes herself to hymnography.
Hymnographer Kassiani
1960
6.5A freighter leaves the one she loves and goes to Germany to raise money to get married. When she returns she finds her married to another. The same night she goes to ask her the word and the money she sent her for so long, her husband is murdered and he is arrested.
A Man with a Conscience
1969
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Casablan
1964
1950s · 14 titles
5.5The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
Experts on the Football Field
1956
6.31920s Greece is occupied by the Turks. A country in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. A small community conduct their annual Passion Play. The leading citizens, under auspices of the Patriarch, choose the actors: a stuttering shepherd as Jesus, the town butcher as Judas, the town prostitute as Mary Magdalene, and so on. As the story unfolds, the Passion becomes a reality.
He Who Must Die
1957
6.7An unemployed sailor gets a job at the yacht of a wealthy man, where he is tortured by his beautiful young wife and decides to leave his wife and son to leave with her.
For bread and love
1959
9.0Two young people from Zakynthos have to deal with difficult situations due to the attitudes of the local community. In the end, they will manage to live happily ever after.
We Have to Marry Them Off
1953
6.2A poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in an accident at the construction site, his oldest son undertakes the responsibility of providing for the family, facing all difficulties.
Bitter Bread
1951
5.0Set in Athens, this Greek film concerns the trials and tribulations of two girls from the village of Korfu. Unschooled in big-city ways, our heroines are prime targets for every sharpster and lothario in the city. The results of their naivete are more comic than dramatic, culminating in lasting romance for both ladies. The plotline is periodically interrupted by the performance of Greek folk dances, easily the highlights of the film. Indicative of the frugality of the Greek film industry is the fact that, at $80,000, this was the country's most expensive production up to 1957!
Capital adventures
1956
2.0Jenny is a real crazy girl. Latest feat is an ad that asks for work, convenient to young and unmarried entrepreneur office Candidate bosses and lovers arrived at her house. But this by accepting only serious offers will come to Mr. Papadopoulos office. Her acquaintance with Mr. Alekos and lies that will say from the outset, that is plousiokoritso will put her in big trouble
She's a Lunatic
1958
5.7The heroic Souli have managed to repel the asker of Ali Pasha and his brave Malamos Dragon sends his mother to ask her hand Maro, niece of the captain Tzavelena. She ignores the hatred that separated years both Families and agrees to give her niece, but to know that Maro loves Kitsos Botsari. When the son of Fotos Tzavellas engage Maro with Kitsos, the Malamos drowns his pain and unleashes his rage against the Turks, who are trying again to get the Souli.
Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
1959
5.6A party of couples from Athens is planning to attend the performance of Medea in Ancient Epidaurus. They set off in their cars bright and early in the morning, combining their theater outing with a side trip to Nauplion. They stop at a railroad junction for the train to pass. There Mado recognizes the fleeting figure of the man standing at the window of the train and she faints.
The Man on the Train
1958
5.5Tassos is a kiosk owner who is in love with Foula. He has a constant fear of vehicles speeding past his kiosk. His friend Vangelis wants to help him overcome his fear. A series of strange events, misunderstandings, and unrequited love will lead to the marriage of Tasos and Foula.
Jeep, Pavilion and Love
1957
5.8Returning to Athens after the end of the World War II, Captain Nikolas finds out what happened to his family from a neighbor.
Bloody Christmas
1951
8.0Wanting to have nothing to do with the feud that has decimated not only his own family but also that of his neighbors, an irenic teacher faces his childhood sweetheart who yearns to kill him. Can the feared she-wolf see the error of her ways?
The She-Wolf
1951
6.5A young couple's romance comes to a tragic end. It is the first Greek film made by a female director.
Engagement
1950
8.5Accompanied by his feathery associate, a wandering fortune-teller predicts the fates of passers-by to make a living. He encounters penniless lovers, incurable romantics, and unscrupulous con artists. But who knows what tomorrow holds?
Of Fortune The Written
1957
1940s · 7 titles
6.5An ex-member of the Resistance pumps six bullets into a grizzled woman and spends the night at the police station, recounting the dangerous life of her heroic father during the Nazi Occupation of Greece. Is she capable of forgiveness?
The Last Mission
1949
9.0A Roma woman manages to overcome the obstacles that arise because of her origins and win her life and the man she loves.
Maya the Gypsy
1943
4.3A marginal guy, Tony, returns from America and, in a nightclub, he meets his old love, who has become a prostitute for his sake, abandoning her husband and child. Tony tries to take advantage of his friend's daughter, who is about to get married to a rich young man.
Forgotten Faces
1946
6.5The murder of an underworld figure, Takis Katridis, puts Martha, a young girl who was in love with him, as well as her father, craftsman Giannis, in the dock. Each one of them, separately, claims to be the guilty one, so that the other won’t go to prison.
Two Worlds
1949
7.0A postwar melodrama of jealousy and rage.
Double Sacrifice
1945
4.3A naughty, love-smitten teacher sets in motion an audacious scheme to woo a charming final-year student who is in love with her fisherman beau.
Zero for Conduct
1949
6.2During World War II, a lieutenant of the Royal Navy, Aris Galanos, arrives in Italian-occupied Rhodes on a secret mission. He takes the place of the Italian officer Giovanni Retsini and, as captain Giovanni, now helps the residents of the island as much as possible. At the same time, he also falls in love with Anna Roditi, a member of the Resistance. He travels back and forth to the Middle East carrying secret plans for the defense of the Dodecanese. The revelation of Aris' activity also leads to Anna's arrest, who is about to be court-martial-led. The capitulation of Italy, however, averts such an unpleasant development. With the end of the war and the unification of the Dodecanese islands with Greece, Aris returns to Rhodes to live there forever with his beloved Anna Roditi.
Anna of Rhodes
1948
