Minas Hatzisavvas
Birthday: Born in 1948-01-28 in Athens, Greece
Deathday: 2015-11-30
Minas Hatzisavvas (Greek: Μηνάς Χατζησάββας; 28 January 1948 – 30 November 2015) was a Greek actor. He appeared in many films, television series and theatre plays with great success. He initially studied in France and later at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School in Athens. He played his first role in 1965 in Ancient Theatre of Dodona. It was the role of Paris in Rhesus of Euripides. His debut in cinema was in 1970. From that point on, he appeared in many films and won four film awards as both a leading and supporting actor for the films Ta Paidia tou Kronou, Kleisti Strofi, Lilly's Story and Worlds apart. He was bestowed with two television awards respectively for the television series I Agapi Argise mia Mera and Nyhterino Deltio.
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Αναστασία
Character: Pavlos
A young beautiful girl who has a relationship with both a young man and his father. When she learns the truth about the two men she is connected to, she does nothing to straighten things out and things start to get complicated....
Νυχτερινό Δελτίο
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This police TV series gets it's episode stories from a series of social everyday issues, revealing that reality sometines overcomes fantasy....
1821
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Κόκκινος κύκλος
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Άμυνα Ζώνης
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Απών
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J.A.C.E.
Character: Officer Dimitriou
Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where vi...
Medea, Louder Than My Thoughts
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Unfair World
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Sotiris is a police investigator in Athens who lives by a strict moral code. An honest man, he carries himself as though held down by the weight of the world. Dora is a cleaning lady, struggling to get by any way she can. Dealt a rough hand in life, she has developed a rich layer of cynicism and mistrust that informs her every action. When a man Sotiris believes is innocent is arrested for a brutal crime, his attempt to uncover the truth results in a grave mistake. Finding himself on the other s...
Το κολιέ
Character: Telis
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Hostage
Character: Police Commander
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....
The Third Night
Character: Dionysis
The wife, a girl and a woman, lose their husband, father and lover in a plane crash. As it turns out, all three women are waiting for some news about the same man. In the end it is confirmed that the man died in the accident....
The King
Character: Petros Voliotis
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...
Η άλλη όψη
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A film by Tasos Psarras....
Truants
Character: Andreas
The story follows the sporadic reunions of six friends during the seven year period of their integration into society. The reunions take place on their ancestral island, the setting of their common past. Every time they return "home" they carry with them the results of their personal choices. They also carry with them the effects of modern Greek society, a society the slowly but surely changes them, weathering their relationships, until they gradually lose contact with each other. The end of thi...
Worlds Apart
Character: Antonis
Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end....
The Cistern
Character: Pentelas
In 1974, a group of 11-year-old boys spend the last carefree summer of their childhood, unaware that the world of grown-ups, with its loves, passions, prejudices and curses, is about to seal their fate. Aaron, Stelios, Sakis, Galanos and Verios, "the acrobats", are best friends. School has closed for the summer holidays and the children spend their time playing games, running errands, and riding their bikes. Life is a game, into which they channel all their physical energy and imagination. They ...
Welcome to 'All Saints
Character: Konstantinos Theotokis
The trainee Orthopedic Doctor George Spyrou began his career in the fictional General Orthopedic Hospital "All Saints', somewhere on the outskirts of Athens. There you will discover that the hospital population, by physicians, administrators and nurses, to patients, they are all forced to confront dancing a grotesque dance routine. With humor and humanity within a social landscape so angry George Spyratos trying to balance between the warring parties these microcosms. The gradual evolution from ...
Such a Long Absence
Character: Angeliki's friend
After the death of her father a young woman who was a student in Germany suffers a nervous breakdown and withdraws inside herself. Her younger sisterʼs attempt to stop the family from having her locked up in a mental hospital fails and brings about her own mental decline. The film marked Stavros Tsiolis re-emergence after a 14-year absence but was also the film debut of actress Pemi Zouni....
The Cronos Children
Character: Θάνος
Aris and Thanos are good friends and they share an apartment. The arrival of Stella will unbalance their relationship....
Athens Blues
Character: Sotiris
A group of men in their sixties that spend the August nights in Athens outside a pharmacy during night shift, an ambulance driver who has an affair with a younger girl, a middle-aged couple who have invented a lie to renew their passion for one another, a child pretending to sleepwalk in the streets of Athens, two younger people who are tied together in an office after a burglar attack, and other amorous encounters during the same night....
U-Turn
Character: Andreas
A lone car thief, meets a mysterious and charming woman who would be the love of his life but will lure him into a dangerous adventure....
Eastern Periphery
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A young chemical engineer finds a new job in a multinational corporation. As he climbs the career ladder, he loses his humanity....
Day Off
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Against the backdrop of Athens' bustling streets, a Greek white-collar worker starts his day off by doing various errands, and even though he hasn't worked all day, in reality, he is exhausted. Is this what his typical day off looks like?...
The Love of Ulysses
Character: Orestis
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Farther Right Than the Right
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The secret services of the junta use a resisting captain who is now their prisoner in order to trap some resistance kernels. The conflicting ideological trajectories of people, each representing something specific, are drifting from the whirlpool of history, composing a mosaic of representative heroes of a time....
I Dream of My Friends
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Four episodes, four instances from a man’s life covering 25 years, from 1965 in Germany to 1990 in Athens. The episodes seem to be irrelevant to one another, yet they all focus on male powerplay, reveal the self-consciousness and moderation of the protagonist’s idiosyncrasy and depict some special aspects of the Greek male mentality. Probably Nikos Panayotopoulos’ most personal film, covering a substantial period of his generation’s years, “I’m dreaming of my friends” is based on the book by Dim...
Η ζωή ενάμιση χιλιάρικο
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A Time to Kill
Character: Andreas
Two friends, former shooting champions get involved with the world of professional assassins....
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Character: Vasilis
A mother with her ten year old son, are looking to find an apartment for rent but those who finds are expensive or hide bizarre people and chaotic situations. But time is short and there is a risk being left on the road....
N' Me for Myself
Character: Father
Antonis always goes by train. He is in a rush to make it on time. His recent past keeps catching up on him. Reality does not allow him to escape the images. That's how it is. because that's how it goes. He couldn't give a damn about anything. He needs to pee. Dependent on his girlfriend just as he's on himself. He doesn't owe anything to anybody....
Η Ωραία Ελένη
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After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer...
John the Violent
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The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens....