Andreas Filippides
Acting
Biography
Andreas Filippidis (6 January 1919 – 8 January 1989) was a Greek actor. He was born in Athens in 1919, the son of musical theatre actor Manos Filippidis. He was a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre and a final year student of the Law School of the University of Athens. He made his stage debut in 1943 with Mrs. Katerina's troupe in Eugene O'Neill's Strange Intermezzo, playing the role of Gordon. He played alongside Vasso Manolidou, Mary Aroni, Georgios Pappas and Dimitris Horn. He worked at the National Theatre (in leading roles from 1946 to 1957), at the State Theatre of Northern Greece and at the Free Theatre, while for some years he served as a troupe leader. He directed plays by Chekhov, Molière, Grigorios Xenopoulos and others, while for 20 years he served as a professor at the Theodosiadis Drama School. He has appeared in many Greek films. He has also recorded several collaborations with radio and television. After the dictatorship, he was elected vice-president of the Greek Actors' Union.
Known For
Michael Pappas and his girlfriend, Cathy, are enjoying the white sand beaches of a Greek island as well as the freewheeling nature of the locals. When Michael meets Lina, who is in Greece from Paris doing archaeological work, he is enamored with the beautiful foreigner. Cathy, unhappy about Lina getting close to Michael, confronts the woman -- only to be unexpectedly wooed by her charms as well.
Summer Lovers
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O Hristos xanastavronetai
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Μεθυσμένη πολιτεία
A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.
Loafing and Camouflage
A police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a morphine. As a member of the Drug Enforcement Department, he tries to identify the head of a drug dealer gang. His unorthodox way of acting upsets his superiors, even though they allow him to continue his investigations. When the gang discovers that he is a police officer, he makes him a drug addict, but he manages to detoxify and eventually capture the gang's brain.
Abuse of authority
A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.
Phaedra
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The Notary
The teacher of a primary school in a mountainous village, arrives in Athens to force a rich businessman to keep his promise and to build a new school in the village.
The Teacher was One Hell of a Man
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Πόντιος Πιλάτος
The adventures of a secret British agent who undertakes his last mission, with Greece as his destination. His mission will prove extremely dangerous, as foreign double agents, the Greek police, and ruthless killers become involved in a relentless chase that takes us to various parts of Greece, such as Meteora, Athens, and Nafplio.
Conspiracy in the Mediterranean
A minor fender-bender triggers a string of unexpected events when a young optimist and car sales representative chances upon the incognito daughter of his antagonist. Will this lead to a fresh romance, and the fulfilment of his dreams?
The optimist
Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.
Atlas
Two pickpockets get involved in a bank robbery organized by an American, at the urging of a colleague. Dissatisfied with the division of the loot, they confess their crime to the priest and the police officer. In the end, the perpetrators are arrested and the poor devils have a chance to earn their bread honestly.
The Poor Demons
What lies hidden in a nymphet’s soul? Lust for sex? Self-preservation? Childhood trauma? Father quest? Who can really see? A Police Officer who wants to bring Rosie back onto the right track does - but Rosie is too busy flirting with middle-aged men, destroying virtuous families and scheming her way up the social ladder, while also wallowing in seedy night clubs of the ’60ies wrestling Frida, the naked dancer hiding a rod, for Jim’s eyes only. Jim is not 100% sure which one of the two blondes he wants to kill so he might just make a serious mistake and kill Rosie. But is it really easy for a nymphet to be killed?
Lolitas of Athens
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
A Dream of Passion
To make some easy money, Stamatis rents Chroni's house to his womanizer boss Soultanoglou but also to his other boss's wife, Dora, who decided to cheat on her husband ... So, Chroni's house turns into a double love nest for cheating couples, without him having any clue.
A Bachelor's Pad For Ten
Andreas Tependris, the director of a mannequin school, meets again with an old friend who has returned from America. He proposes to get him a partner in his business, provided that he has grown up and changed his way of life. So, a new life begins for him by pretending the big businessman. But when he meet a wealthy American woman, he loses his mind and even renounces his fiancé. She, with the help of her daughter and his friends, sets him up for a trap to convince him...
The Crazy Fifty
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Γιάννης και Μαρία
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Ο δρόμος των ηρώων
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.