Nikos Fermas
Acting
Biography
Nikos Fermas (1905-1972) was a film and theatre actor. He was born in Mytilene in 1905 and his real name was Nikos Hadjiandreou. He established himself in roles of a buffoon and a dobro man and appeared, always in supporting roles, in many films of the 1950s and 1960s such as A Hero with Slippers, Lola, The Card Game, The Misfortune Teller, The Chief Petty Officer, The Almond Blossom, What the Night Hides, The Papatrechas, The Dollar Has Arrived, Three Dolls and Me and others. He married the also actress Anna Pantzika (1912-). He died at the age of 67, on August 14, 1972 and was buried in Ilioupoli.
Known For
Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.
The Bait
Comedy where Athanassios inherits a castle supposedly inhabited by Count Dracula, and decides to settle the question.
Dracula and Company
The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.
Mrs. Midwife
This classic Greek comedy revolves around the constant fights between Zikos who works as a clerk at a small grocer's shop and the shop's owner. Zikos just can't keep his mouth shut every time his boss behaves as being an aristocrat. Things go even worse when Zikos finds out that his boss, by taking advantage of his wealth and with the help of the local match-maker, is planning to marry a young poor girl living in the same neighborhood.
World Gone Mad
A smart young man is forced to pretend to be stupid in order to get a job in the office of a strict businessman, whose daughter he is in love with. By pretending to be stupid, he manages to save the businessman from making major mistakes, winning his sympathy.
The Smart Aleck
Through the narration of a tenant of a block of flats on 288 Stournara street, we watch the everyday stories of people living in the city, their problems, their comic situations and their love affairs.
Stournara 288
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Never on Sunday
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that has gained a great reputation and is preparing to move to Kolonaki as it has made a lot of money by telling the cup. In the same neighborhood is a laundress, Kalliopi (Georgia Vassiliadou), who makes a living by force. One day, after an incident in which a customer (Kostas Mentis) humiliates Kalliopi and Spyros intervenes, he comes up with an idea: for Kalliopi to run the coffee shop, since the other one has left.
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
A poor but very decent teacher, Telis, who has resigned from his job, finds a winning lottery ticket in the street. Suddenly, his life changes radically. But he then discovers that someone has put it in front of him deliberately.
If Luck Favors You
Vengos studies in a secret agents' academy, dreaming of becoming a great spy like 007. Unfortunately, he can't do anything right, so he wreaks havoc during his final exams.
Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000'
A guileless peasant with a heart of gold enlists in the prestigious Hellenic Special Forces and finds himself neck-deep in trouble when his superior entrusts him to keep an eye on his beloved only daughter.
Michalios of the 14th Regiment
The sudden heritage, which is announced to two mercantiles, infuses their minds and begins to live richly, forgetting their previous lives.
The Money
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.
The Counterfeit Coin
Two poor portable barrel piano players ramble through Greek countryside and play in fairs. They meet by chance with a rich runaway girl whose father offers a large reward to her finders.They have to choose between getting the reward or helping the girl with her renegade love affair.
The Hurdy-Gurdy
About Aleka who is obsessed with playing cards and the efforts of her husband to make her quit this bad "habit".
The Gambler Lady
A sometimes blind and sometimes mute homeless panhandler becomes the pivotal point in a modular story composed of secret love affairs, bittersweet conclusions, the end of an era, and pure hope. How hard is it to find an honest man?
Wanted honest
Two rich old friends, Andreas and Agisilaos are in love with young Rita. Andreas believes that is youth and not money that drive the world. He sells his soul to the devil, becomes young and flirts Rita. However, Andreas understands that youth alone is not enough and decides to give a dowry to lovely Rita so that she can marry the one she loves.
Woe to the Young
Polydoros Lagos is a janitor in an ordinary Athens' block in the 1960s who's struggling to serve as many of the building's residents as possible in order to save some money to help his six sisters (and his aunt) get married, since this is the only way he can finally get married too.
Papatrechas
A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful expatriate brother to finally see their older sister get married. However, is the wealthy sibling willing to help?
Fanouris and His Kin
Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her rickety house.