Giannis Fertis
Birthday: Born in 1938-04-21 in Athens, Greece
Deathday: 2024-04-14
Yiannis Fertis (Athens, April 21, 1938 - April 14, 2024) was a Greek theater, film and television actor. Protagonist from the 1960s to 2019, in classical and contemporary plays, prose and ancient drama. In cinema, he starred in more than 30 films. He appeared for the first time in 1961 in the movie "Who's Margarita" with Jenny Karezis. The following year he played Orestes in Elektra directed by Michalis Kakogianni, a film that won 25 international awards (among which was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film). In 2008, he won the Best Actor Award at the Thessaloniki Festival for his performance in the film Slaves in Their Chains directed by Toni Lykouresi. On television, he appeared in more than 15 series, most notably The Teacher with the Golden Eyes and The Notary in 1979.
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Προδοσία
Character: Κώστας Μαντάς
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Βεντέττα: Ο Γδικιωμός
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Βίος ανθόσπαρτος
Character: Ανέστης
Amalia Parisi is a tax preparer, living in Chalkida. She is about to get married with Anestis, but when she meets his brother Nikolas, a new love is born....
Βαμμένος ήλιος
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Ο Συμβολαιογράφος
Character: Παύλος Ροδίνης
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Ο επισκέπτης της ομίχλης
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Η θεατρίνα
Character: Κώστας
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Movie Credits
From Jerusalem with love
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we dont know anything...
The happy face of Leonora
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to eftihismeno prosopo tis leonoras...
A girl different from the others
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Slaves in Their Bonds
Character: Κόντες Αλέξανδρος Οφιομάχος
Genteel aristocrats and the terrible impasse erect in front of them their debts, forbidden loves and marriages interests, passions and conflicts....
The Hot Month of August
Character: Iason Filippou
A young man, Jason, is on his way home and meets two beautiful women, Hope and Alexis. He falls for Hope, but has sex with Alexis. He doesn't know that Alexis' husband has hired a private detective to trail her, and the man reports back to Alexis' husband about her affair with Jason. The husband kills Alexis but the police suspect Jason. He and Hope have to clear his name and find enough evidence to prove the husband is the killer....
Face to Face with Death
Character: Kostas Venetis
Seven months after the declaration of the Greco-Italian War, a volunteer nurse and a small group of confidants who take part in the Resistance, face incarceration and horrible tortures, as they refuse to betray their country....
Electra
Character: Orestis
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge....
The Roundup
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One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work in Greece before the advent of the 1967 dictatorship forced him to flee to Paris. This confused mess, the first cinematic attempt at portraying the Greek resistance in WWII, caused quite a stink upon release, as much for its surprising style (recalling that of Bertolt Brecht) as ...
Rebels Of The Cities
Character: Fotis Kalatzis
A Middle East allied Force commander, Themis, parachutes in occupied Greece to organize a sabotage in the Meteora region but betrays the Germans and falls into ambush. Before retiring, he calls Fotis, a student who had hidden his house, and urges him to go to Athens and meet an Aristides. Despite the mobilization of the Germans who perform all the hostages they have captured, including his father, Fotis finally arrives in Athens, meets with Aristides and accepts to cooperate with him. With the n...
Εγκατάλειψη
Character: Alexis
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The hour of justice
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In the shadow of the other woman
Character: Stefanos
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Love forever
Character: Dimitris
A spoiled rich girl falls in love with a poor, good-looking but also talented pianist, rejecting a wealthy suitor from her own class. However, a combination of her parents' pressure and a misunderstanding with her beloved leads her to accept the proposal of a wealthy businessman. At the same time, an accident obliges the young pianist to abandon his piano for quite a long time. And although the young girl stands by him in his time of need, she leaves him the moment he recovers. However, on the n...
Με Τη Λάμψη Στα Μάτια
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During the German occupation, the Nazis plan to execute 30 men in retaliation for the death of a German soldier at the hands of the partisans. Among the men are three brothers (Giorgos Fountas, Anestis Vlachos and Giannis Fertis). The villagers ask the German officer (Zoras Tsapelis) to spare the life of one of the brothers. He accepts on the condition that their father (Lavrentis Dianellos) selects the one to remain alive....
Underwater Papanikolis
Character: Vasilis Aslanoglou
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Who Is Margarita?
Character: Petros
A girl from the province, who works in a fashion house in Athens, goes to Kos to promote her clothes. Residents believe that the daughter of a Greek-American tycoon and she plays the role will lead it to embrace the real son of the alleged father....
Όνειρα γλυκά
Character: Antonis
fantastical human story...
Ο μεγάλος διχασμός
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Love and storm
Character: Dimitris
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Καρδιά που λύγισε από τον πόνο
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Underground route
Character: Kostas Kavvadias
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A Life
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Life is a unique event and it only happens to us once. There is no turning back. What would I have done or not done, if I could turn back time? Which of my actions or oversights have I regretted? I wonder, did I live well or did I waste the amount of time given to me? Important people, sculpted over time and standing at the threshold of life, talk, freely at last, about the journey of their life and bestow, as a gift, the precious essence of their life. The almost distilled opinions of these peo...
Stubborn Elsa
Character: Manos
A housewife putting her husbant's cheese in a mouse trap and a razor blade in her son's food....
Uphill
Character: Alexis Geranis
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Το Νυφοπάζαρο
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Αδυναμίες
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Πονηρός πράκτωρ Καραγκιόζης
Character: Nionios
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