Vasilis Papadimitriou
Acting
Biography
Vasilis Papadimitriou is an actor and musician. He was born and raised in Patras. He studied Acting at the Drama School of the Art Theatre Karolos Koun and Musicology at the Department of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has attended seminars in theater, singing, dance, and music education in Greece and England. He also holds a degree in Harmony (Patraiko Conservatory) and is proficient in Clarinet/Bass Clarinet and Piano. He has collaborated with the National Theatre, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Art Theatre, the Ilisia Theatre, the Anesis Theatre, and others, in productions such as Song From Far Away directed by Foivos Samartzis, Da directed by Petros Zoulias, The Midnight Gang directed by Dimitris Degaitis, Spongebob Squarepants: The Musical directed by Themis Marsellou, Wonderful Ruins directed by Natasha Triantafylli, Lessons of War III directed by Giorgis Tsouris, A Christmas Carol directed by Yannis Moschos, Oedipus Rex directed by Konstantinos Markoulakis, The Assemblywomen directed by Alexandros Rigas, Grease directed by Dimitris Malissovas, Spamalot directed by Angelos Klonaris, Victor or Power to the Children directed by Marianna Calbari, Adamantia directed by Kostis Kapelonis, Diaries of Solidarity directed by Mania Papadimitriou, I Want a Country directed by Marianna Calbari, and more. He also appeared in the English series The Durrells (ITV) and in the short film Arrows by Nikos Vitis
Known For
In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.
The Durrells
A taxi driver is trying to make ends meet with his debts. His brother, a famous TV presenter, lives every day like it's his last one. Tied in their childhood, but alienated in their adult everyday life, they will meet again under unpleasant circumstances. The shared memories, the long journeys to Jamaica - the unattainable dream shared by children - one's inexhaustible humor and the other's pure soul will unite them again.
Jamaica
This film is a video-recorded performance of a landmark play from French surrealism, which was staged as a musical for the first time ever. Libretto and music are by the well-known Greek composer Stamatis Kraounakis. He himself portrays the main role of Victor: a child prodigy from a bourgeois family, who, on his ninth birthday, decides to ruin everything, revealing his father's adultery and unraveling all the hypocrisy and family disintegration, as well as dismissing his class.
Viktor, i ta paidia stin exousia
In a super market, where the paths are predetermined with arrows, a young man, when he tries to reach a young woman to give her a button she missed, finds obstacles while following the directions of the arrows.