Giorgos Papakostas
Directing
Biography
Giorgos Papakostas was born in 1935 in Athens, Greece. He was a director and writer, known for To syrtaki tis amartias (1966), Martha, i gynaika tou ponou (1970) and Kardia pou lygise apo ton pono (1968). He died on 31 January 2011 in Athens, Greece.
Known For

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The Poor Child

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

A father is desperately trying to tame his young daughter, while she falls for a young man during their vacation In the island of Aegina, near Athens. But young love ignores fatherly threats and takes its course.
Love Games

Leandros is a night club owner who is trying to avoid imprisonment by searching for money to pay the insurance contributions. Along with his debts, he has to withstand the pressures of his beloved for marriage.
What Does Man Do To Live

Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family after being raped by her sister's husband.
The Drawer of Sin

Opposite as black and white, the successful lawyers and business partners, tardy Stamatis and hasty Grigoris, fall for their supposedly single new secretary, unaware that she's already married. What happens when the charade is over?
Stamatis and Grigoris

A naive provincial, Kitsos, who lives in Athens, accepts to work as a doorman in the apartment building where his old friend Aris lives, in order to help him marry the owner's daughter, Poly. Because the latter is quite a difficult character, Kitsos is forced to play the fool. Then, he discovers that Poly is in love with another resident of the apartment building, the famous singer Yannis Vogiatzis. Poly's father assigns Kitsos to monitor his daughter, because he suspects something, while his maid manages to charm him, and marry him, and the apartment building is disturbed by his incredible antics.
Come in, Kitso!

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Ο Πούσκας των Πετραλώνων

Dimitris and Maria postpone their wedding, as the declaration of war will separate them. Dimitris will fight on the front lines and later join the Resistance. The deputy leader of his resistance organization is fatally wounded in a sabotage operation against the Germans. The revelation that he is Maria's father, who had been searching for her for many years, brings pain to the already troubled couple. But the war will end and the two young people will finally have the chance to live happily together.
Our Tears Have Dried Up

Angelica, a beautiful and talented girl, comes out of the orphanage and finds work in a secular center. The son of the owner, Alkis, urges her to become a singer and, of course, she is not late to become a star. Some day, however, he learns that the orphanage was visited by an elderly gentleman, Mr. Nicolas, looking for a little girl he had left there many years ago, who was called Angeliki. He immediately searches for him, finds him and so father and daughter get together. Meanwhile, she is sexually related to Alkis.Aaccident, however, causes Angeliki to be blinded so goes to America for treatment. The forced separation and the existence of another woman do not ultimately alienate the young couple and their love will prove to be superior to all obstacles.
Wronged

A 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

A young man who dresses up as a soldier so that female tourists can take photos of him at the Acropolis tries to get lucky and marry the girl he loves.
A Knight in... Sandals

An industrialist has decided to marry his daughter with his partner and, for that reason, will try to help him in whatever way he can.
To gelio vgike ap' ton Paradeiso

A fairly successful insurance agent, Charles, invites a charming woman, Nana, who was the victim of one of his clients, to lunch and gives her a series of state lottery tickets that he buys during lunch.However, he gets into an argument with Nana and she returns the lottery tickets to him, while Charles gives them to his secretary and two clients. The lottery ticket wins the first prize, but how can he collect the winnings? Then the goddess Fortune appears before him in the form of a beautiful woman and complains that he kicked her. Charles's luck, however, was meeting Nana. A baby, found abandoned on his doorstep, causes the two young people to realize their love and decide to unite their lives, taking the baby's poor mother, who regrets her decision and wants her baby back, into their employ.
The Lottery Man

The entrepreneur Nick Zervoulis, seeing that his daughter Annita has trouble with the man of the underworld Mars Farkas, seeks the help of plef Bush Peter Dimas. Peter appears as an old friend of her father, slowly manages to make him fall in love and to remove from Mars. Mars but is not willing to let ...
One More Time Before I Die

Zacharias is a sanitation worker on an island, and his job is to clean the streets and beaches. He does not accept the label of garbage collector and says that he is the man who protects the environment. No one takes Zacharias seriously and everyone considers him a "loser." Most people hate him and chase him away, but the police officer hates him the most because he discredits his honor and reputation. His only friend is Giorgakis, who wants to teach him karate so he can defend himself. A sudden stroke of luck makes Zacharias rich. This angers his persecutors even more, who seek new ways to hurt him, now setting their sights on his money...
O filos mou o nintza

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Ο Πατούχας

Katia Karalis is a simple typist in a newspaper but wants to be a journalist. One day she learns from her director that Chris Back, a high profile dressmaker. However, in order to provide him with a quiet holiday, he has presented his double to the hotel, and Katia, accompanied by Gregoris, a photographer who is in love with her, watches him everywhere, falling from gaffe to gaffe. Ultimately, despite all the difficulties, they make the great journalistic success after they manage to get an interview with the real Chris Back, namely Christodoulos Baka.
One Groom, Many Lightweight

A young and pretty girl, Violeta, is in love with a kind young artist, Alekos. The feelings are mutual, but the two young people have to face a severe old maid, aunt Pinelopi.
The Girl Has Got an Uncle

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