Vangelis Kazan
Birthday: Born in 1938-01-01 in Nafplio, Greece
Deathday: 2008-03-10
Vangelis Kazan (Greek: Βαγγέλης Καζάν) (1936 – 10 March 2008) was a Greek character actor. Kazan was born in Nafplion. His career in theater, cinema and television spanned for half a century. He repeatedly collaborated with Theo Angelopoulos and was awarded the Best Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1975 for his part in The Travelling Players. He died in Athens.
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Στο Κάμπινγκ
Character: rural constable
The series evolves during a laid-back summer at a camping in Peloponesse, Greece. Takis is an entrepreneur who sets up and manages a campsite on a picturesque coast of the Peloponesse. He staffs the campsite with locals, including his cousin Mitsos who is a horse breeder and works as the riding instructor of the campsite. The series details the short-lived relations and interactions between campsite staff and guests, and especially the summer love of Mitsos with Samantha–an English tourist....
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Movie Credits
The Travelling Players
Character: Aegisthus
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra plots revenge on her mother for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes, a young anti-fascist rebel....
The Thief
Character: Savvas
Short film about a pickpocket. A police officer catches a pickpocket after some illegal activity on a bus, but is willing to hear what led him to the crime....
The Drunk of the Harbor
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A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers the current owner of the villa that used to belong to him....
Landscape in the Mist
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Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany....
Days of '36
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The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing in the government into disarray....
The Girl with Golden Hair
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Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of many locals to abandon the village for the big city or other countries. He works hard to organize traditional cultural events, such as outdoor performances of the traditional play I Chrissomalloussa, in order to solidify local values and a sense of identity. The teacher is aided by a young woman, a widow who has just returned from Germany and lives with her father-in-law. Kazan walks away with the ...
Girls in the Sun
Character: Receptionist
A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece....
Lysistrata
Character: "Pregnant" Spartan "Woman"
Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front....
Παραλάβατε διορισμόν
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May
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The days of May 1936 in Thessaloniki and the events that led to the bloody clashes between the tobacco workers and the army are described in this film in a clear way. The people are the protagonists, and the narrative does not insist on drama or exaggeration. Of particular importance is also the presentation of the way in which the country was led, through a specific plan, to the dictatorship of Metaxas, on August 4, 1936....
Όσο υπάρχει έρωτας
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The Colors of Iris
Character: Giorgos Koukkoulas
A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early morning hours. An unknown man suddenly comes into the shot, then walks into the sea holding an umbrella and seizes to exist, before the bewildered eyes of the whole crew. After the police are notified, a confusing array of red tape manoeuvers begins, revealing the close affiliations of the Authorities with the advertising company manager and the whole mechanism of Mass Media, all of which are try...
Provocation
Character: Police officer
Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disappointment, so all the money he buys a ticket to Australia. But while the young man is waiting for departure in his life to happen a new love experience. A chance meeting with Isabella on the ship that was carrying him to Athens, would be for Angelos another test, would lead to a meeting with the past and will be the key to unlocking the old crime....
The Hunters
Character: Savvas
During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…...
Treason
Character: Police detective
Lieutenant Karl von Stein (Petros Fyssoun) is serving in Greece as an enlightenment officer for the German occupation troops, and lives in the house of Professor Victor Kastriotis (Manos Katrakis) seized by the Germans. There he meets Lisa (Elli Fotiou), a young girl who appears as the professor’s niece, when in fact she is of Jewish descent. The two youths fall in love and are preparing to get married when Karl learns the truth... The film represented Greece at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival an...
Ulysses' Gaze
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An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more....
Make Me A Woman
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A proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds out that her daughter is in love with him, she marries her off to his friend, and now, the knives have the final say. Can reason prevail?...
Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες
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Jenny Jenny
Character: Kassandris' assistant
Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to visit the private library of - her father's political rival - the shipowner Miltos Kassandris. Kassandris prepares his nephew - and a childhood friend of Jenny - Nikos Mantas, as a candidate for the next election. Mantas' rival has a lead, and is backed by Skoutaris, who is facing financial problems. So Kassandris decides to force Jenny to marry his nephew with a fake marriage, while at the same t...
Conflict of Emotions
Character: Loukas
A drug addict meets an aristocratic woman who married a criminal....
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
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Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the destruction of Smyrni. From an old man learns that his father did not die but was arrested by the Turks. He decides to follow the scientific mission of Professor John Anderson in Turkey, to find traces of his father....
Slum, my love
Character: actor
A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when she learns she is about to die....
The Woman Driver
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Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, borrows their new car. When Lilly crashes the car, she asks Mary to cover for her so that her husband doesn’t find about her new affair. The case of the car crash is brought to court, and Mary is accused. Things get so complicated that not even Lilly’s confession can solve the misunderstanding....
Ένας Υπέροχος Άνθρωπος
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In the courthouse, the new lawyer, Nikos Moushouttis, represents the industrialist Orestis Valsamis, accused by the assailant Dimitris Konstantinou, for slanderous defamation. even though he does not have the required evidence, conjures up the young lawyer. Following the condemnation of Constantine, he undertakes to defend him in the Court of Appeal and manages to capture Bolsam in the face of his own. He then leaves the law and is ranked as a lieutenant in the gendarmerie. From this position, h...
Humbled And Dejected
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Manousos is the biggest child of a poor and crowded family living in the province. After finishing his term, he decides to work in Athens to help his mother. His friends and acquaintances are detestable, but he will find work as a singer in a nightclub. Soon she knows success and marries Eleni. But her brother wants to spoil their happiness....
Weak Spot
Character: (as Vangelis Kasan)
Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret agents (Michel Piccoli and Mario Adorf) are bringing the innocent victim to Athens. During their trip, their car breaks down, and they're stopping in a small village. From now on, everybody is fighting against each other, and a psychological cat-and mouse-play is starting......
A Thief with Philotimo
Character: Vagios
Reluctantly, an otherwise honest paterfamilias accepts his shady friend's proposition to start a career in crime. Now, his daughter is in love with the son of a wealthy target. Will the kind robber renounce his former self for her sake?...
Trouba '67
Character: Papadopoulos
A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic forces and their status in life, and love might conquer all....
End of an Era
Character: Christos' Father
In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship....
The Man with the Carnation
Character: Major Georgios Papadopoulos
The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed....
A Law-Abiding Citizen
Character: Filipos
A young man who grew up beneath the heavy shade of autocratic and avaricious mother, son Gregory, has lost initiative and the minimum footprint. The servility of his mother against his boss, which facilitates the solicitations of the latter to his sister, infuriates him. The fiancée, Soula, can not understand his sexual desires and his girlfriend, Julia, the only one that loves him really forced to abandon him. Gregory wonder with all this and rebels, but his rebellion brings him to the brink of...
The Cannon and the Nightingale
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A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2...
Τι έχουν να δουν τα μάτια μου
Character: Λευτέρης Δημόπουλος
Three friends reunite in Athens after struggling abroad. They think of a business idea but quickly realise that not everything goes as planned. When they reach out to a lawyer friend for help, they find that we are all on our own....
Άγουρη Σάρκα
Character: Papoulas
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Στον ίλιγγο της αμαρτίας
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The Other Stage
Character: Self
Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players (1975)....
He And She
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Unfair curse
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Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the wedding, Peter leaves for London, but when he returns, Lisa's relatives avoid him. What has happened;...
The Iron Gate
Character: Antonis
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the most of the adventurism inspired in them by the post-war era and trying to make a life for themselves against the backdrop of the post-dictatorship conservative regime, the two heroes gradually lose their political conciousness and social identity and are led to ruin....
Persecution
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We are in 1942, in the middle of the German Occupation, on an island opposite the coast of Asia Minor, where a mature woman, Katerina Rodeli, cares for a wounded resistance fighter named Kanaris. In her memory, there are images of the past, the panic of the Asia Minor catastrophe and especially the entrance of the tsets in her village. There she lost her three-year-old son, Konstantin, whom he never ceased to look for. However, the village's mackerel maharagrite handed it over to the Germans and...
The Killer
Character: Savvas
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The Song Of Return
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The Greedy
Character: Kimon
The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father from the obligation to recruit staff. Life Christos changing for the better and all you want to complete the happiness is to marry the daughter of his boss....
Η ανταρσία των 10
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The Lake of Sighs
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Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governed by the fierce and vulgar Ali Pasas. Ali’s eldest son, Muchtar, falls in love with a young Greek widow, Frosyni. The problem is, he’s married to the vindictive and cruel Chanife. And the muslim penalty for having an affair with a married man is death…...
The fate of the innocent
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Get on Your Mark
Character: Andreas Dimopoulos
In Filiatra, a half deserted township of Messinia, the remaining farmers face a constant struggle to pay off their debts to the Agricultural Bank....
Φάκελος Πολκ στον αέρα
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Γάμος Στο Περιθώριο
Character: Aristeidis
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Uphill
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Δαίμονες της βίας και του σεξ
Character: Masia
Jason just arrived from Johanesburg and visits a deserted beach house, which belongs to his best friend Mihalis. There he finds Mihalis's wife, Mary, with her sister Magda and a weird fisherman named Kosmas, that stays with them, but seems to somehow, bullying them. He decides to stay with them waiting for his friend to arrive and find him there, but also because he falls in love with Magda. While Jason is having good time with his mistress, things get complicated when he discovers that the fish...
Metamorphoses
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Three girls try to enjoy to the fullest their carefree lives in Athens. However, they get mixed up in situations whose full seriousness they do not grasp....
Artesta
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A rich young man is in love with a dancer, whom she marries against the will of his parents....
Η σκλάβα
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Hippocrates And Democracy
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The father of medical in Kos, Hippocrates, believes that illnesses can be treated with medicines and herbs instead of prayers and comes into conflict with the medical establishment of the island. Leaving Kos, he goes to Athens, where he is called to face a plague for save the city....
Οι νταντάδες
Character: Pavlos
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The Wheel
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The adventures of a car tire in the Attica region, in Greece. The tire was unexpectedly released from the car and started wandering independently in various places...
John the Violent
Character: Investigator
The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens....
Kolasmenes Psyches sta Dichtya tis Idonis
Character: police inspector
Tony Kouroglou responds to a job ad for working in a sea-side hotel. Hitchhiking his way to the hotel, he finds himself trapped in a murder case. He hastily disposes of the body and starts his new job. When he finds out that the people that framed him stay at the hotel, he becomes determined to expose them in order to keep himself out of jail....
Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
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Κατρακύλισμα... στο βούρκο
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The wealthy and spoiled son of a successful industrialist decides to play with an honest, love-smitten woman, unbeknownst to him that she is the secretary of his father....
Crooked Deeds
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Dimitris, a poor painter who feels deeply disappointed in his life, leaves his wife and begins to wander aimlessly. The woman who raised him after the death of his parents, Mrs. Marigo, must now undergo a difficult operation and Dimitris is forced to submit to the whims of the rich Rita, in order to help his sick nanny. Another failed painter, Alexis, who lives as a gigolo, is also Rita's lover, but Dimitris is unaware of this. Will the silent anti-jealousy end in a stabbing? (greek-movies.com)...
Abduction
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Ένα παιδί χωρίς όνομα
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After their father's death, the vicious and drunken eldest son, Angelos, kicks out of the house his stepbrother Nikolas, a kind-hearted and hardworking young man in love with Angelos' sister, Marina, and he vows to take revenge for the cruel way his brother treated him. But the years pass and Marina has married her childhood friend Petros, the only person who helped her in the difficult times, after the disappearance of Nikolas. Angel has squandered his fortune and is in danger of losing everyth...
Ματωμένη γη
Character: Sotiris
The daughter of a powerful husband in a mountainous village in Greece is being forced to marry a wealthy villager while loving a poor lad. Her beloved will leave the village, giving an oath to return and marry her....
Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος
Character: Stefanos
A poor young man, who bears the surname of a rich shipowner, meets and falls in love with a rich heir. She does not believe that this is a coincidence and their relationship is built on a lie....
Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
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