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O Vasilias
''The King'' ( el, Ο Βασιλιάς/O Vasilias) is a Greek drama film directed by Nikos Grammatikos. The film released in 2002 and stars Vangelis Mourikis, Marilita Lambropoulou and Minas Hatzisavvas. It won the Golden Piramide in 2003 Cairo International Film Festival as well as four awards in Greek State Film Awards. Plot A young man, recently released from prison, returns to his childhood hometown in order to escape from his recent criminal past. There, he is confronted with suspicion and hostility by local people, including the community leader. The only friendly person is the policeman. After his former girlfriend arrives, his past catches up with him and conflict with locals goes to extremes. Cast *Vangelis Mourikis *Marilita Lambropoulou *Minas Hatzisavvas * Babis Giotopoulos * Vivi Koka *Tasos Nousias Tasos Nousias ( el, Τάσος Νούσιας; born 12 August 1973) is a Greek actor. He has appeared in more than thirty films since 1996. Selected filmography Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Grammatikos
Nikos Grammatikos ( el, Νίκος Γραμματικός; born 13 October 1969) is a Greek former handball player and current coach. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ... and at the 2005 World Championship. References External links * 1969 births Living people Greek male handball players Olympic handball players for Greece Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Piraeus {{Greece-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vangelis Mourikis
Vangelis Mourikis ( el, Βαγγέλης Μουρίκης) is a Greek film actor. He has appeared in more than thirty films since 1982. He studied in Australia where he did his first works. In 1990s he returned to Greece and devoted himself to independent cinema. He has won seven awards both leading and supporting actor. He has collaborated with many directors of new Greek cinema including Thodoros Maragos, Yannis Economides, Nikos Grammatikos, Pantelis Voulgaris, Athina Rachel Tsangari, and Georgis Grigorakis Georgis Grigorakis ( el, Τζώρτζης Γρηγοράκης; born 20 May 1983) is a Greek film director and screenwriter. He has received awards at the 70th Berlin Film Festival and the Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2021 for his debut film '' .... Filmography Awards References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mourikis, Vangelis Living people Greek male film actors Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilita Lambropoulou
Marilita Lambropoulou ( el, Μαριλίτα Λαμπροπούλου, ''Marilíta Lampropoúlou''; born July 15, 1974, in Athens, Greece) is a Greek actress. She is very popular with home audiences for her work in films like ''Athens Blues'' (Μια Μέρα τη Νύχτα, ''Mia Mera ti Nychta''), directed by Giorgos Panousopoulos (2002) and ''The King'' (Ο Βασιλιάς, ''O Vasilias''), directed by Nikos Grammatikos (2002), for which she won the "Quality Award". Marilita trained at the Theatre Studies Department of the University of Patras, as well as at a series of seminars organised by the National Theatre. Her stage work includes roles in both classical and contemporary theatre, most recently in Bat’s The House of the Sleeping Girls at the Amore Theater. Marilita has also directed theatre, including The Caretaker by Harold Pinter and Psychology of the Syrian Husband by Emmanuil Roidis. She has acted in television in such leads roles as Maria in the television film, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minas Hatzisavvas
Minas Hatzisavvas ( gr, Μηνάς Χατζησάββας; 28 January 1948 – 30 November 2015) was a Greek actor. He appeared in many films, television series and theatre plays with great success. He initially studied in France and later at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School in Athens. He played his first role in 1965 in Ancient Theatre of Dodona. It was the role of Paris in '' Rhesus'' of Euripides. His debut in cinema was in 1970. From that point on, he appeared in many films and won four film awards as both a leading and supporting actor for the films ''Ta Paidia tou Kronou'', ''Kleisti Strofi'', ''Lilly's Story'' and Worlds apart. He was bestowed with two television awards Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, e ... respectively for the television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thanasis Papakonstantinou
Athanasios "Thanasis" Papakonstantinou ( el, Αθανάσιος (Θανάσης) Παπακωνσταντίνου; born 26 April 1959) is a Greek singer-songwriter. Short biography He is married, with two children. Papakonstantinou studied mechanical engineering in Thessaloniki, which he practices as well as being a musician. After military service (all males are conscripted in Greece), he had a spell of handcrafting traditional Greek musical instruments. Now a Larissa resident, Papakonstantinou has established himself as one of the most original and prolific people in the Greek music scene. He writes music in the Greek folk idiom, stemming from his own recollections of traditional songs his parents sang while working in the field. He usually writes his own lyrics or uses poems. He has collaborated with numerous notable artists from the Greek music scene, such as Giannis Aggelakas, Melina Kana, Sokratis Malamas, Lizeta Kalimeri, Nikos Papazoglou. In 2002, his song ''Nanourisma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo International Film Festival
The Cairo International Film Festival ( ar, مهرجان القاهرة السينمائي الدولي) is an annual internationally accredited film festival held in Cairo Opera House. It was established in 1976 and has taken place every year since its inception, except for 2011 and 2013, when it was cancelled due to budget limitations and political instability. It is the only international competitive feature film festival recognized by the FIAPF in the Arab world and Africa, as well as the oldest in this category. History The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) is one of only 15 Festivals accorded as a category "A" status by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations FIAPF. It is the oldest internationally accredited cultural feature film festival in the Arab World, Africa and the Middle East. Now briefly and in short, the history of CIFF goes back to 1975, after a visit to the Berlin Film Festival the late writer-critic Kamal El Mallakh and a group of li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek State Film Awards
The Greek State Film Awards ( el, Κρατικά Βραβεία Κινηματογράφου) was a part of Thessaloniki International Film Festival concerning exclusively Greek movies. It was one of the most important events in Greek cinema, from its institution in 1992 until 2008. Until 1991, only Greek movies participated in the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Since 1992 the festival became international and a separate award was instituted for Greek movies. At first the new award was named State Film Awards and later State Film Quality Awards (Κρατικά Κινηματογραφικά Βραβεία Ποιότητας). It was given out by the Greek Ministry of Culture. Apart from the best film award there were awards in other categories such as the best actor, actress, best director etc. In 2009, during the 50th Thessaloniki Festival, the Greek filmmakers decided to boycott the awards. The awards were subsequently abolished by a bill of the Ministry of Culture. It has since bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babis Giotopoulos
Babis may refer to: *Andrej Babiš, Former Czech Prime Minister *Kasia Babis, Polish cartoonist *Vasilis Babis (born 1996), Greek footballer *Followers of the Báb The Báb (b. ʿAlí Muḥammad; 20 October 1819 – 9 July 1850), was the messianic founder of Bábism, and one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith. He was a merchant from Shiraz in Qajar Iran who, in 1844 at the age of 25, claimed ..., a 19th-century Persian prophet and founder of Bábism {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivi Koka
Vivi may refer to: People * Vivi Bach (1939–2013), Danish actress and singer * Vivi Fernandez (born 1977), Brazilian model * Vivi Flindt (born 1943), Danish ballerina * Vivi Friedman (1967–2012), Finnish film director * Vivi Gioi (1917–1975), Italian actress * Vivi Jiang (born 1988), Chinese pop singer * Vivi Krogh (1919–2014), Norwegian anti-immigration activist * Vivi Zigler, American television executive * Albert Vivancos (born 1994), commonly known as Vivi, Spanish footballer * ViVi / Wong Gaahei, (born 1996), Hong Kong born singer based in South Korea, member of LOONA Places * Vivi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a town * Lake Vivi in Evenkia, Russia * Vivi (river), a tributary of the Nizhnyaya Tunguska in Evenkia, Russia * Río Viví, a river in Puerto Rico Fictional characters * Nefertari Vivi, in the manga and anime ''One Piece'' * Vivi (''Final Fantasy''), in the role-playing game ''Final Fantasy IX'' * Vivi, main character of ''Sirens second and final s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasos Nousias
Tasos Nousias ( el, Τάσος Νούσιας; born 12 August 1973) is a Greek actor. He has appeared in more than thirty films since 1996. Selected filmography References External links * 1973 births Living people Greek male film actors People from Ioannina (regional unit) {{Greece-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangelia Andreadaki
Evangelia Andreadaki ( Greek: Ευαγγελία Ανδρεαδάκη) is a Greek actress. She is sometimes credited as Vangelio Andreadaki. Her film credits include '' Smac'', '' Little England'' and '' Black Field''. Andreadaki also co-starred in the television series '' Eho ena mystiko''. Filmography (partial) References External links * Living people Actresses from Athens Greek film actresses Greek television actresses Year of birth missing (living people) {{Greece-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Films
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2002 by worldwide gross are as follows: 2002 was the first year to see three films cross the eight-hundred-million-dollar milestone, surpassing the previous year's record of two eight-hundred-million-dollar films. It also surpasses the previous years record of having the most ticket sales in a single year (fueled by the success of various sequels and the first Spider-Man movie). Events * March 1 — Paramount Pictures reveals a new-on screen logo that was used until December 2011 to celebrate its 90th anniversary. * May – '' The Pianist'' directed by Roman Polanski wins the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival. * May 3–5 – '' Spider-Man'' is the first film to make $100+ million during its opening weekend in the US unadjusted to inflation. * May 16 – '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' opens in theaters. Although a huge success, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |