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Vicky Harris
Vicky Harris ( gr, Βίκυ Χάρρις) is a Greek and American actress, voice-over artist, writer and translator. In film, she is most notable for her roles in ''See You in Hell, My Darling'' and ''The Zero Years'' by Nikos Nikolaidis. Life and career Harris was born in New York and raised in the United States, living between New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Athens, Greece and Paris, France. She initially aspired to become a writer and while having been granted a four-year scholarship from Boston University, she began her studies in English Literature before developing a career in acting. She then went on to collaborate with some of Greece's most prominent directors, most notably starring in Nikos Nikolaidis' critically acclaimed films ''See You in Hell, My Darling'' and ''The Zero Years'' for which Variety writes: "Harris dominates with her poised playing: When she's off-screen in the latter stages, the temperature dips." Known also for her voice-over work in both Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (state)
New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. state by area. With 20.2 million people, it is the fourth-most-populous state in the United States as of 2021, with approximately 44% living in New York City, including 25% of the state's population within Brooklyn and Queens, and another 15% on the remainder of Long Island, the most populous island in the United States. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest. New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and around two-thirds of the state's popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dust Of Time
''The Dust of Time'' () is a 2008 Greek drama film written and directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos, and starring Willem Dafoe, Irène Jacob, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli and Christiane Paul. The film is the second of an unfinished trilogy started with '' Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow'' in 2004. The final installment, under the working title ''The Other Sea'', was left incomplete due to Angelopoulos' unexpected death in January 2012. Plot In 1999, A, an American filmmaker of Greek descent, receives a phone call from his melancholic daughter at the Cinecittà studio. He rushes back to his apartment in Rome, where he finds a letter his mother, Eleni, wrote to his father, Spyros, in 1956. In 1953, Eleni and Jacob, a Jew of German descent, watch the newsreel in Temirtau. Spyros arrives, and he and Eleni jump onto a tram, ditching Jacob. The tram arrives at the public square in front of the government office, where Stalin's death is publicly announced. That night, following an intimate enco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Film Actresses
Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek. **Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC). **Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC. **Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity. **Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. **Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD). *Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language. *Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church. *Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity. *Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD. Other uses * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses From Athens
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Greek Actresses
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 (Roman numerals, I) through AD 100 (Roman numerals, C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or History by period, historical period. The 1st century also saw the Christianity in the 1st century, appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conspiracies (video Game)
''Nick Delios - Conspiracies'' ( el, Νικ Δέλιος - Συνωμοσίες), known also as ''Conspiracies'', is a FMV adventure video game developed by Greek studio Anima Interactive and published by Got Game Entertainment in North America, with GMX Media handling distribution in Europe. It is the first installment in the ''Conspiracies'' series of video games, and the first Greek adventure game to receive an international retail release. A sequel, '' Conspiracies II - Lethal Networks'', was released in March 2011. Story ''Conspiracies'' is set in a futuristic 21st century, where human society is threatened by a destroyed natural environment, overpopulation, poverty, organized crime and increasing forms of depression and neurological diseases. Earth has dissolved into a single federation of cities. Greece, where the game takes place, is one of them. Every city-state has its own governor and local government, which is subject to the Supreme Federal Government. Beneath the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Com For Murder
Com or COM may refer to: Computing * COM (hardware interface), a serial port interface on IBM PC-compatible computers * COM file, or .com file, short for "command", a file extension for an executable file in MS-DOS * .com, an Internet top-level domain, originally short for "commercial" * Component Object Model, a Microsoft software interface technology * Computer-on-module, a type of single-board computer Transport * Comair (USA), an airline which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines by ICAO airline designator * Commonwealth MRT station, a Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore by MRT station abbreviation Other * ''COM'' (manga magazine) * Cốm, green rice dish in Vietnam * Common rail (electricity), a common path of currents in an electronic circuit, often for the ground * Center of mass * Center-of-momentum frame * Coma Berenices (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation * Comoros, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code * College of the Mainland, a comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akropol
''Akropol'' (aka Acropole) is a 1995 musical film by Alco Films (with F.F. Film House Ltd, Greek Film Centre and ET 1). It was directed by Pantelis Voulgaris, and was filmed wholly in Sofia, Bulgaria. Cast * Lefteris Voyatzis - Lakis Loizos * Stavros Paravas - Antonis Seferiadis, o Prigipas * Konstantinos Tzoumas - Platon * Themis Bazaka - Rena * Sotiria Leonardou * Antzela Gerekou - Zozo * Andigoni Alikakou * Manos Vakousis - Foteinias * Yannis Sampsiaris * Eirini Inglesi * Olga Damani - Marika * Popi Papadaki *Despo Diamantidou - Seferiadou, Antonis's mother Soundtrack This list only contains some of the songs featured in Akropol. * "Kleise ta matia sou" *: Written by Nikos Portokaloglou *: Performed by Nikos Portokaloglou & Melina Kana * "Maharagias" *: Written by Nikos Portokaloglou Nikos Portokaloglou (born 30 December 1957) is a Greek singer, songwriter and lyricist. He started his career in 1980, when he founded the music band Fatme. The first album of the band rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellenic Film Academy
The Hellenic Film Academy (HFA) ( el, Ελληνική Ακαδημία Κινηματογράφου) is an initiative of a group of Greek filmmakers. HFA presents the annual Hellenic Film Academy Awards ceremony, awarding the best films of Greek cinema of the last year. The Hellenic Film Academy was founded in November 2009 by a group of active film professionals of Greek cinema, involved in the ''Filmmakers Of Greece'' movement demanding a new Greek film law. Through a series of events that shook the Greek film world, the Hellenic Film Academy Awards replaced the defamed Greek State Film Awards, held by the Greek Ministry of Culture, that since ceased to exist. The founding members were 108 Greek filmmakers, producers, film critics, technicians, screenwriters and actors. Greek filmmaker Tasos Boulmetis was elected the first president of the Hellenic Film Academy. When it was founded, honorary members of the academy were the filmmakers Costa Gavras, Nikos Koundouros, Michalis Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conspiracies
A conspiracy, also known as a plot, is a secret plan or agreement between persons (called conspirers or conspirators) for an unlawful or harmful purpose, such as murder or treason, especially with political motivation, while keeping their agreement secret from the public or from other people affected by it. In a political sense, conspiracy refers to a group of people united in the goal of usurping, altering or overthrowing an established political power. Depending on the circumstances, a conspiracy may also be a crime, or a civil wrong. The term generally implies wrongdoing or illegality on the part of the conspirators, as people would not need to conspire to engage in activities that were lawful and ethical, or to which no one would object. There are some coordinated activities that people engage in with secrecy that are not generally thought of as conspiracies. For example, intelligence agencies such as the American CIA and the British MI6 necessarily make plans in secret to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio (2011 Film)
''Rio'' is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation, and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Jemaine Clement, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, will.i.am, and Jamie Foxx. It tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a domesticated male Spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a free-spirited female Spix's macaw, Jewel (Hathaway). The two eventually fall in love, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel (Clement), a cockatoo. Saldanha developed his first story concept of ''Rio'' in 2005, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. Saldanha learned of the production of the films ''Happy Feet'' (2006) and '' Surf's Up'' (2007), and changed the concept to involve macaws and their environments in Rio. He proposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Angelopoulos
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (; ; 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. He started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece. Angelopoulos' films, described by Martin Scorsese as that of "a masterful filmmaker", are characterized by the slightest movement, slightest change in distance, long takes, and complex, carefully composed scenes. His cinematic method is often described as "sweeping" and "hypnotic." In 1998 his film ''Eternity and a Day'' went on to win the Palme d'Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and his films have been shown at many of the world's esteemed film festivals. Biography Theodoros Angelopoulos was born in Athens on 27 April 1935. During the Greek Civil War, his father was taken hostage and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
