Yannis Bostantzoglou
Birthday: Born in 1951-09-12 in Athens, Greece
Deathday: Alive
Yiannis Bostantzoglou (Athens, 12 September 1951) is a Greek actor. He studied acting at the Karolos Koun Art Theatre and graduated from the Katseli Theatre School in 1972. He has appeared in many films, plays and television series, playing characteristic roles. He has also worked as a narrator on radio shows.
TV Credits
Στα Σύνορα
Character: Μελέτης Μπάρλας
In a rural village on the border with Albania, Ahuria, lives a lovable grandmother, Giannoula (Yro Mane), with her family. Her great granddaughter, Ioanna (Lila Baklesi), returns to her paternal home after a ten-year absence due to studies. At the same time, a police officer from Athens, Heraklis (Nikos Poursanidis), gets an unfavorable transfer to the village Police Department....
Θα Σε Δω Στο Πλοίο
Character: Alekos Apostolou
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Πρώτη Σταγόνα
Character:
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Εγκλήματα
Character: Ηλίας Λιάκουρας
Achilleas' wife, Flora, is disappointed by her marriage and remembers nostalgia for her childhood love, Alekos. Fate brings them so they eventually reunite illegally. Alekos's wife, however, Soso understands the illegal relationship and tries to avenge her husband for his infidelity. A series of incredible "crimes" unfolds with our heroes victims....
Solo Καριέρα
Character: Μίλτος
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Παραμύθι... Αλλιώς
Character: βασιλιάς Ιάκωβος
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Movie Credits
No Budget Story
Character: Tolis
In order to secure money for the production of his first film, a young man asks help from a film producer. The producer, however, was involved with pornographic films....
The Bubble
Character: Vangelis Manolas
Makis , a man with difficulties in the stock market, falls for Roula , who is the mistress of a big tycoon , which Makis has invested in. Makis becomes witness to an assassination gone wrong. The police are after him thinking he is the shooter but the real assassin is after Makis to recruit him to his terrorist beliefs. The only comfort Makis can find is Roula who follows him on his deadly adventure....
Happy Day
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A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead....
The Manaviko
Character: Errikos
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What Kind of Soul Will You Deliver To God Bitch?
Character: Makis
What Kind of Soul Will You Deliver To God Bitch? is a Greek black comedy mini-series created by Alexandros Rigas and Dimitris Apostolou which aired on Mega Channel on 2000 and lasted only 6 episodes. The series focuses on the lives of four women who want to take revenge from the man who sexually abused them when they were little girls. Despite the fact that Ti Psychi Tha Paradoseis Mori? draw extremely high ratings from its beginning, the shootings were abruptly interrupted during the producti...
Parangelia!
Character: Club's security
The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespecting his brother Demos' zeibekiko, a traditional Greek dance....
Norway
Character: Jimmy
In 1984, photophobic Zano arrives in Athens and quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city....
Free All Around
Character: Αρχιφύλακας
Sissy tries to cope despite lots of problems. Her brother Harry asks her for financial support to produce his feature film about the first Greek rocket in space. Harry describes the plot of his film to Sissy so vividly that we also see his film on screen. Sissy's and Harry's stories meet at a certain point and they both help one another to find freedom....
Jackpot
Character: General
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The Fridge
Character: Man in the Alleyway
When George finds an old abandoned icebox in the hallway, he decides that he can keep the money that his room mate has given him for a refrigerator......
Bird of Cyprus
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The gangster kidnapping of a popular Greek actress in Athens, the adventurous wandering in the Mediterranean, the unexpected capture by the Turks and the venture to realize a bold dream....
Hostage
Character: Speaker (voice)
Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers hostage and demands a ransom of half and million euro, and safe passage to his homeland of Albania. Surrounded by police, the bus trundles towards the Albanian border and the tension mounts until the final harrowing conclusion....
Tonight We Dine at Iokastis
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When one fine morning a peaceful neighborhoods disrupted by the unexpected disappearance of a Latvian manicurist, Iocasti Papadamou joins forces with ingenious, albeit completely naive, neighbor in order to shed light on the bizarre case....
Fate
Character:
On a small island, a saint is about to be canonized by the church. His icon has no face. According to local lore, one night the saint stepped out of the icon, visited the fair and scandalized the believers. He was ashamed of his behavior and never returned. After a disastrous weekend, a writer discovers that a painter had actually been commissioned to paint the portrait of a saint, but that his dissolute way of living led the locals to attribute to the saint the painter’s acts. The islanders res...
Creative Producer: The Unsung Hero of Greek Cinema
Character: Himself (Archive Footage)
The documentary Creative Producer: The Unsung Hero of Greek Cinema explores the role of the producer in the creative process of Greek cinema, highlighting the complexity and unseen creative role that distinguishes this special profession....
No Sympathy for the Devil
Character: Scania
A modern version of Orpheus and Eurydice. A romance in extremes set at a dystopian future by the acclaimed Greek director Dimitri Athanitis. Provocative, already a cult film. After being released from prison, Eurydice gets a job as a waitress but also as a naked model for a mysterious photographer who blackmails her. Orpheus, a cashier at a super market meets her by chance and falls for her at once. When he loses her, he shall travel all the way to hell, to get her back. Dimitri Athanitis's take...
The Heart of the Beast
Character: Commander Konstadinos Goutzourelas
His advanced studies in philosophy have caused Stephanos to view all people as his inferiors. When he is discharged from the -obligatory in Greece- army service, he thinks the world belongs to him. In reality all that does belong to him are debts left by his mother who has just died and rejection by his formerly devoted girlfriend. Nikos, an old high school classmate, reappears in his life....
Journey from Greece
Character: Le père
Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repair their boat. In Istanbul, she encounters Avril, a nineteen-year-old French girl, alone and without any money, who came to Turkey as a voluntary worker with refugees. Djam, generous, cheeky, unpredictable, and free-spirited, takes Avril under her wing on the way to Mytilene. A journey filled with encounters, music, sharing, and hope....
Good Evening to You
Character: Kyriakos
Stathis is a teenager who owns a pirate radio station that broadcasts at the same frequency used by another pirate radio station, owned by Stamatis and his friends. This leads to many conflicts between them, and as if this wasn't enough, Stathis is also desperately in love with Koula and has to face her huge boyfriend Kyriakos......
Poker Face
Character: Tzimis
Niki when she was still a child she had a gift. A stuffed parrot that brought her luck. Thanks to that her father and his friends were able to win in gambling in order to make a living. One day though a friend of her's steals the parrot and as a result her father goes bankrupt and ends in prison. Niki as an adult she has to fight back her old friend in a poker tournament. Things get tough thou when she falls in love with him....
Η Ληστεία
Character: Giannis Mavromatis
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Full Pink Ahead
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A muck raker journalist tries to trap the Education Minister, why is rumored to be gay, but he perceived as gay. Dismissed from his job, but becomes the idol of all sexually oppressed. Forced to represent the gay, he decides to establish "alternative" party with the former minister, who represents his lover for electioneering purposes....
Έμπλεξα τα... αγόρια μου!
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Without Borders
Character: Sotos
Thanasis, a cotton candy vendor from Athens, has been caring for little Melissa since she was a baby when her mother, an immigrant prostitute, thought it best to leave the girl behind while seeking fortune in America. Her unexpected appearance five years later has traumatic consequences when she takes her child away from Thanasis and leaves. Thanasis decides to travel to America in the hope of seeing her again....
Three Eggholders, Almost Four
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Haralabos is at his late forties and he has just lost his dog. He decides to fill his empty space and time with a collection: on a whim, he chooses to collect egg holders. Until one day he meets Dimitra, an avid collector and also a loner. Their relationship will share the joy of discovery and the grounds of sharing. But everything will change after a trip in the country, where the couple will face an unknown temptation: the egg holder that could be the most beautiful piece in their collection. ...
Άδης
Character: Village President
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Ανδρέα ας πρόσεχες
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The Final Payoff
Character: Coatch
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Quo Vadis?
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Character: The Boss
The protagonist, aged 40, lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who can’t drive. The driver provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, he loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport....
Ποιος Γελάει Τελευταίος
Character:
Tasos dies in a car accident, but he is given five more minutes of life...
Πάμε Στοίχημα
Character:
Takis goes on holiday with his sexy girlfriend, but they break up. Takis stays at the hotel and there he knows the beautiful Isabell but he claims it and another tourist Roulis ......
Μετεωρίτες
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Djam, a Greek girl, is sent to Istanbul on a mission to find a motor-boat part of her uncle...
The lifer
Character: Prison's chef/Executioner (voice)
A prisoner sentenced to 622 years in prison is imprisoned in a Greek prison in which the laws of the Junta are still in force. Isovitis (Lifer) and all prisoners are supported by a mouse living in prison, Montechristo, behaving very arrogantly....
My Best Friend
Character: Hristos
My Best Friend is the outrageous story of two men, friends since childhood, who have spent their lives tormenting one another. It is only when Constantinos discovers Alekos in bed with his wife that their friendship and their respective marriages finally collapse into a death spiral of sex, deceit and irrepressible humor. As events unfold another deception, one concealed by both men's wives, opens the door to incredible erotic intrigue....
Το Τίμημα της... Λόξας
Character: Μαρίνος
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