Giorgos Katakouzinos

Directing

Giorgos Katakouzinos

Born January 1, 1943 · Alexandria, Egypt

Died August 13, 2013 · aged 70

George Katakouzinos was born in 1943 in Alexandria, Egypt, and after studying film in Athens and Paris, he worked as an assistant director on several Greek films before making his own films. In 1976, he made the short film “Nights” and in 1982, his first feature film, “Angel”, starring Michalis Maniatis and Dionysis Xanthos. The film, which was based on true events, was a great commercial success …

Known For

AbsencesAbsences · 1987
Absences
5.91987
MovieRomanceDrama
A family story of incest, decadence and desolation. Greece, early twentieth century. A bourgeois family is on the verge of breaking up. The mother has abandoned the family, and the father, a retired officer, keeps his three daughters, as well as the illegitimate son of the oldest daughter, confined in the house. After his death, the three sisters live through their personal drama. The eldest, Eleni, imbued with the morals of the time and closely identifying with her father, tries to take his place. The middle one, Maria, representing rebellion, goes off with a captain of the sanitation service, while the youngest, Anna, skating on thin ice through all this, is completely destroyed.
ZOIZOI · 1995
ZOI
1995
MovieCrimeDrama
The real-life story of the life and murder of an 18-year-old girl by her husband.
AngelAngel · 1982
Angel
5.61982
MovieDrama
Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover.
The 201 CanariesThe 201 Canaries · 1964
The 201 Canaries
6.81964
MovieComedyRomance
A deliberate injustice forces an orphaned music student to leave home, only to land a job as a pianist for an affluent woman's canaries. Now, it's time to turn the page. Can she find a bright future amid two hundred and one songbirds?
The RoundupThe Roundup · 1965
The Roundup
6.91965
MovieDramaWar
A summer night in 1944 in Kokkinia, Kosmas, a black marketeer, is out with his friends before he is arrested by the German patrol. The Germans push him to turn in people from the Resistance, or they will execute him.
KierionKierion · 1974
Kierion
6.01974
MovieThrillerDrama
Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.

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