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Lida Protopsalti

Lida Protopsalti

Acting

Biography

Leda Protopsalti (Piraeus, 24 January 1940) is a Greek actress. She was born in Piraeus in 1940 as Lydia Protopsalti and studied acting at the Drama School of the Art Theatre. Her sister is the soprano Elsa Castella. At the age of six, she went to her first audition, while at twelve, she participated in her first theatrical performance. Since then, she has made many appearances in the theatre. She was one of the founders of the troupe Vimata in 1969 and since 1974 she has been a permanent collaborator of the Stoa Theatre. She made her first film appearance at the age of ten in the film My Child Must Live. She has participated in films such as: The Devil's Socks, El Greco and The Rose of Smyrna. On television, she played in various series on EIRT, YENED and ET1. In 1995, she starred in the series The Third Crown, based on the book of the same name, playing Hecuba. She has received many awards, including the Marika Kotopouli Award in 1993, the award from the International Theatre Institute in 1997 and the First Performance Award for Euripides' Hecuba from Athinorama magazine in 2000. Also, at the 2013 Hellenic Academy Awards she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award for the film Joy. On private television, he has appeared in the series: A Greek, Reformatory, Marriage Bureau, Bound, Difficult Years, Nightmare, Themis is in... a Mood, Once Upon a Time: The Grocer's Beans, Little-Big, The Man Without a Face, Hippocrates Street, The Third Step, Hare Tasso Karatasos, Zoe.

Known For

On High Treason
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In a small village, Michalis, who suffers from amnesia, does not remember that he and three of his fellow villagers were surrounded by the enemy. Specifically, on their way back to their village after the collapse of the Albanian front and the German invasion, somewhere in the Larissa area, the men were supposed to meet up with resistance fighters. However, Michalis does not remember the trap they fell into, where his two companions were killed and he himself was wounded, while the fourth was absent. Yannis had disappeared but suddenly returns to his home, and his presence upsets Michalis. Yannis' father quickly understands why: his son, in order to save his own skin, had betrayed his friends to the Germans. An honest man and a fiery patriot, he tries his son on charges of high treason, finds him guilty, and executes him.

On High Treason

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