Maro Kodou

Acting

Maro Kodou

Born June 21, 1934 · Athens, Greece

Died July 15, 2026 · aged 92

Maro Kontou (Greek: Μάρω Κοντού; born 21 June 1934 - 15 July 2026) was a Greek actress and politician. She performed in more than sixty films since 1954. Maro Kontou's first film appearance was just after she had started at the National Theater, with a silent role in the Finos Film film "Happy Beginning" (1954) by Dinos Dimopoulos. Roles in films by other producers followed ("The Man on the Train…

Known For

A Pitiful Don JuanA Pitiful Don Juan · 1960
A Pitiful Don Juan
★ 5.41960
MovieComedy
A wealthy man is responsible for his friend’s daughter, who has come to Athens to study. The girl messes up his life and soon falls in love with him. Although he behaves like a father to her, he is tempted and jealous and flirts with her in front of a charming classmate of her, who is also interested in the girl.
Crime in KolonakiCrime in Kolonaki · 1960
Crime in Kolonaki
★ 6.11960
MovieMysteryCrime
When the painter Nasos Karnezis is found dead and the police arrests Floras, the stockbroker Dimitris, his son from his first marriage, decides to find out who the real murderer is. Along with a tow of his friends, reporter Makris and the politician Delios research the case and they suspect Myrto, daughter of captain Kapsis who was executed by the Germans during the years of Occupation, after Karnezis had turned him in. Dimitris and Myrto, whose innocent has become clear in the meantime, fall in love with each other.
My friend, LefterakisMy friend, Lefterakis · 1963
My friend, Lefterakis
★ 6.21963
MovieComedy
Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend Lefterakis Tsampardis, Theo will welcome him with surprise and terror.
The GrouchThe Grouch · 1969
The Grouch
★ 6.91969
MovieComedy
A nephew of three strange uncles loves a girl, but his uncles are against the marriage. A resourceful aunt takes the case and helps the couple.
My Wife's HusbandMy Wife's Husband · 1962
My Wife's Husband
★ 4.51962
MovieComedy
By closing his pharmacy, Panagiotis Panagiotidis falls on a provocative stranger, Lulu, who leads him to a beach for swimming and then drives him home. There, he learns that he is called Jordan Steka, that Lulu is his wife and that he suffers from a personality split. He asks for police assistance, but the policeman is convinced that he is crazy and he asks for a psychiatrist to prove him suffering from a personality split.
The GreedyThe Greedy · 1967
The Greedy
★ 7.01967
MovieComedy
The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father from the obligation to recruit staff. Life Christos changing for the better and all you want to complete the happiness is to marry the daughter of his boss.
And the Woman Shall Fear Her HusbandAnd the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband · 1965
And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband
★ 7.41965
MovieDramaComedy
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later..
Η κυρία είναι χάιΗ κυρία είναι χάι · 1989
Η κυρία είναι χάι
1989
MovieComedy

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AntigoneAntigone · 1961
Antigone
★ 7.61961
MovieHistoryDrama
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...

Ismene

Seven Years of MarriageSeven Years of Marriage · 1972
Seven Years of Marriage
★ 5.21972
MovieComedy
Having been married for seven years, a tourist office director and his well-known television presenter wife, Alekos and Efi Fotiou go through a crucial phase. Dedicated to their careers, they rarely meet, and when thy actually achieve it they always end up quarreling. The only family they have, their uncles, suggest they have a baby. She finds it a good idea, but Alekos thinks that they won't be able to raise a baby properly. This dispute brings them one step closer to divorce, which now seems the only solution, especially when Efi starts to believe that Alekos is flirting with Tzouli, and Alekos suspects that his wife is having an affair with Dimitris. When it is finally proved that none of this is true, and, actually, Tzouli is planning to marry Dimitris and Efi's aunt Dimitris' uncle, they all get reasonable, the couple gets over its crisis and they live happily ever after, together with their newborn child.

Efi Fotiou

Curtain LectureCurtain Lecture · 1971
Curtain Lecture
★ 7.31971
MovieComedy
Lawyer Savvas Tsiviklis receives a gift from an old girlfriend, Kiki Petachtidou, who has just returned from the Congo. The gift is two small wooden lions which, in order not to find his wife Koula and mad in the bedroom, gives them to a well-known young man. In a while, however, his wife comes and gives him the lions he had previously given to the young man. Savvas goes crazy and begins the quarrels and jealousy that bachelor Menios supposes by constantly exclaiming "What good do I do and not get married!" Of course, in the end, they clear everything, since Koula from the beginning She had said the lions were a gift from an old classmate, Ms. Contoyorgus, and those that Savvas gave to the young, though quite the same, were different.

Koula Tsivikli