Argyris Xafis
Birthday: Born in 1976-11-06 in Peristeri, Athens Prefecture, Greece
Deathday: Alive
Argyris Xafis (1976) is a Greek actor and director. He was born and raised in Peristeri in 1976. He studied at the Higher School of Dramatic Art of the National Theatre. He has participated in many theater performances, mainly of the National Theater and the Theater of the South, as well as in films. In 2001 he was honored with the Horn Award for his role in the play "The Turn of the Screw". He has received excellent[5] reviews for many of his plays. In 2011 he was awarded by the Hellenic Cinema Academy with the award for Best Actor for his role in the film "From the Bones Taken".
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Φεύγα
Character: Christos
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Η λέξη που δε λες
Character: Μανώλης
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Milky Way
Character: Teacher
Follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos....
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Character: Elias
Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated after a deadly tragic accident. She seems to seek out his presence, takes care of him, records music for him. Jon’s eyesight begins to fail … From then on, for every loss he suffers, he will gain something in return. Thus, in spite of going blind, he will live his life more fully than e...
J.A.C.E.
Character: Angelos Karras
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...
The City and the City
Character: Avraam
Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which the viewer experiences, aghast, the madness of humanity....
A Dog's Dream
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During a strange night, a prostitute, an opera singer, a fortune teller, a travel agent, a police chief and an insomniac meet by chance....
Uranisco Disco
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About a producer-director of erotic films and his mistress, a wannabe a singer, making a porn-musical....
Milky Way
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Follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos....
From the Edge of the City
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Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another....
The Attack of the Giant Mousaka
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Around the year 2000, a terrible occurence shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how, for what reason? But no one can give an answer......
One Day in August
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Middle August in Athens. Three families, living in a three storey building, leave for their summer vacations. Everyone is wishing for a miracle to happen this summer. In the meantime, a drifter breaks into their apartments and rummages their personal belongings, thus unfolding hidden secrets....
BASTARDS
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The Bastards have left the city behind. Their house in the countryside smells of nothing but summer. Five girls and five boys living in the moment, for the moment. No outsider comes around here, and all the insiders take turns standing guard, kissing each other, playing dead. They are still kids. They are your kids. They are our Bastards....
Mythopathy
Character: Efstathiou
It is a movie following the coming-of-age for a boy; the story begins in the mid-60s, continues all through the 70s, and finishes in 1981. He is a creative young man facing the troubles of the first pangs of love and we observe the way he tries to handle them within his social surroundings, his family, and environment....
Welcome to 'All Saints
Character: George Spyratos
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 ...
Kazantzakis
Character: Kapetan Mihalis
The true story of the greatest Greek writer of the 20th century, Nikos Kazantzakis, based on his work, Report to Greco, which is, essentially, his autobiography....
Do It Yourself
Character: Miltiadis
A small-time crook agrees to star in a viral video that will restore the image of a businessman who acts against the law. When he realizes that he is the next victim in this man’s list, he struggles to save himself at any cost, in this suspenseful action film....
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea
Character: Vassilis
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life....
Χρυσόσκονη
Character: Alexis
Athens, today. Three siblings face the prospect of selling their family home. The potential buyers will tear it down and erect a modern building in its place....
Nobody Loses Forever
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In the near future, when Athens is in danger of ecological catastrophe, a mysterious man, a young hacker and a washed out singer become entangled in a dark web of radioactive waste and suspected maritime shipwrecks....