Anna Vagena
Birthday: Born in 1947-06-15 in Larissa, Greece
Deathday: Alive
Anna Vagena (June 15, 1947, Larissa) is a Greek actress and politician. She is a graduate of the drama schools of the Karolos Koun Art Theater and the National Theater, while she has also studied at the Law School of Athens. He has participated in many theater performances, among them The Glass World, The Churchmen, Triseugeni, Prometheus Bound and Camino Real. Her most important film participation is the lead role in the film Anna's Consul by Pantelis Voulgaris, which won her the award for Best Actress at the Thessaloniki festival in 1979. Other films he has acted in are Visibility Zero, The Great Lover, Operation Kraipe-The Tomb of the Third Reich, Where Do They Go for the Havuza? and The King. In the 1980s he participated in the ERT2 comedy TV series The Vangelitsa Channel, in the ET1 drama series "The Trip That Kills" (1992), while he also acted in various video films. In the period 1996-1997 he participated in Mega's successful series, Because of Honor. In 1999 she founded the "Metaxourgeio" Theater together with her husband Loukianos Kilaidonis. In 2006 he published the book My Thessalian Theater, published by Kedros publications.
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Το κανάλι της Βαγγελίτσας
Character: Βαγγελίτσα
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Λόγω τιμής
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The ups and downs in the life of seven friends from Patras....
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The King
Character: Vangelis's mother
A 35-year old man, just released from jail, decides to make a clean break from the big city and his troubled past. He retreats to the abandoned village his father came from and moves into an old, collapsing house. Alone, far from the bigger village and doing petty jobs to survive, he will strive to find himself once more. Amidst a haze of suspicion and scorn by villagers who treat him an intruder, his past catches up to him in the form of his girlfriend from Athens. Conflict is inescapable...
Goodbye
Character: Matina
Six goodbyes and a welcome. The very ending of dramatic, melodramatic and funny scenes of everyday life....
Operation Kraipe
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Anna's Engagement
Character: Anna Vlasopoulou
A lower-class maid navigates the social world of the upper-crust family she works for....
The Abductors
Character: Isavella
The daughter of a wealthy shipowner is kidnapped by a ruthless gang and her father terrorized....
The Great Love Songs
Character: Herself
A documentary about Greek music. Τhe Great Love Songs is series of ten poems by, among others, Sappho, Elytis, Myrtiotissa, Sarantari, and cavafy, put to music by Manos Hadjidakis. In the film, the camera lens illustrates the emotions stirred by the erotic atmosphere of the music. We follow the camera as it wanders through Athens; the nostalgic Athens of yesteryear; the big modern-day city; the Athens of lovers; the Athens of tourists. Our journey through the city is intercut with footage from t...
Giakoumis, A Roman Heart
Character: Eleni
Giakoumis is a poor man with no family, working at the docks. One day he finds out that he has a very rich relative abroad....
Underwater Papanikolis
Character: Αρραβωνιαστικιά Μπότσαρη
October 28, 1940. Along with the Italian army's attack on the Greek-Albanian border, Greece comes under fire from the Italian air force. The submarine Papanikolis, commanded by Captain Milto Iatridis and First Officer Vasilis Aslanoglou, is ordered to patrol the Gulf of Patras. Following the army's victories, the war council decides that it is time for the navy to enter the war and orders the submarine Papanikolis to patrol the Strait of Otranto. There, the crew captures the crew of an Italian s...
Which Way to the Septic Tank?
Character: Afroditi Papathanasi
A conscientious tanker driver, Thanasis Papathanasis, works hard to help his sister Afroditi study medicine. He believes that in this way he will be able to marry her off so that then he can finally marry Eleni, whom he has loved for years. His efforts, however, are all in vain, as he is constantly confronted with a corrupt establishment and political situation that generate all the prevailing misfortunes: personal, social and national....
Pavlos Melas
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The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks and Bulgarians. A story stick to the facts for the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks. Pavlos Melas is the symbol of the struggle for the independence of Macedonia in Greece....
Proud eagles
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The love affair between a squadron leader and a young woman who is involved with agents and saboteurs from foreign countries leads to the exposure of an entire group of spies....
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....
Non-essential Movement
Character: (Archive Footage)
If there weren’t any buses, would there be films? In March 2020, the window of my gaze narrowed down. City life almost ceased. Non-essential movements were prohibited, and cinemas closed. I don’t know what I miss the most, cinema or a non-essential movement....
Aliki the Dictator
Character: Οδηγός
A young woman arrives in Athens with her dog after the death of her father, the head of a bouzouki band that broke up because television took away their work. She settles in the humble home of a friend, who is married to a petty crook, and looks for work. At some point, she meets a blind student and a mutual attraction develops between them, which blossoms into love....