Vana Barba

Acting

Vana Barba

Born March 13, 1966 · Ioannina, Greece (age 60)

Vana Barba (March 13, 1966, Ioannina) is a Greek actress, and former model, awarded as Miss Greece in 1984. Her career began after her victory in 1984 as Miss Greece while in the same year she was a candidate for Miss World. With her appearance in the Italian film Mediterraneo, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991, she became widely known and continued her career app…

Known For

Take CareTake Care · 1991
Take Care
4.61991
MovieDramaRomance
A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an affair with the widow and cannot decide between them
MediterraneoMediterraneo · 1991
Mediterraneo
7.61991
MovieComedyRomance
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.
Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάςΟ πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς · 1986
Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς
1986
MovieComedy
Loneliness Everywhere, Loneliness NowhereLoneliness Everywhere, Loneliness Nowhere · 1998
Loneliness Everywhere, Loneliness Nowhere
3.81998
MovieRomanceDrama
A couple in crisis comes closer when the woman (who suspecting her husband of adultery) decides to work as a dancer in a nightclub. When he sees her dancing, he desires her again.
Living DangerouslyLiving Dangerously · 1987
Living Dangerously
6.81987
MovieComedy
On the morning of the World Cup final, Karamanos, an employee of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (TOE), connects his commander's personal computer to a devilishly complex and explosive device. He threatens to blow up the floor and the satellite dishes above if he is not allowed to appear on the national network 10 minutes before the football match to denounce all the wrongs that plague the lives of Greek citizens and make them victims of a partisan and corrupt state.
The HomosexualsThe Homosexuals · 1988
The Homosexuals
1988
MovieDrama
Alexis Panas, a brilliant trainee psychiatrist, leads a double life. By day, Alexis handles complex cases for inmates at a mental health clinic. By night, the quiet psychotherapist frequents Athens' seedy gay bars looking for pleasure. As Alexis' complicated existence unfolds, the stories of fellow lost souls depict the city's ugly face and the chronic problem of acceptance and racism that society stubbornly shies away from dealing with. But the closeted psychologist knows he is playing with fire. After all, he is looking for love in all the wrong places. And when a horrible incident leaves him open-mouthed, Alexis will have to choose: live a life in fear or live his life.
I alitisaI alitisa · 1990
I alitisa
1990
MovieAction
A great baby food industry is poisoning the children using trashy feedstock. A girl of the nobility, studying mannequin comes from Paris, disguised in alitissa and trying to find the edge in the odd case.
To stigma tis enohisTo stigma tis enohis · 1985
To stigma tis enohis
3.31985
MovieDrama
Helen knew the pitfalls of life and the struggles of survival from her childhood. The world around her, the people she knew and became close to, all hid some secret sins and a dirty past. They all had some stigma of guilt... But when a dangerous secret comes to light, none of them could ever have imagined that Helen...

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Love Me Not?Love Me Not? · 1989
Love Me Not?
5.61989
MovieComedyDrama
Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.

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