Manos Vakousis

Acting

Manos Vakousis

Born January 1, 1958 · Santorini, Greece (age 68)

Manos Vakousis (Greek: Μάνος Βακούσης, Santorini 1958) is a Greek actor, who is known to the general Greek public for many theater, film and television productions. In his long-term theatrical career, he has been awarded the First Prize for a male role at the Thessaloniki Festival in the film Byron – Ballad of a Possessed by N. Koundouros (1992). With the 2nd male role award at the Thessaloniki Fe…

Known For

The Woman Who DreamedThe Woman Who Dreamed · 1988
The Woman Who Dreamed
7.31988
MovieFantasyDrama
Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.
NobodyNobody · 2011
Nobody
6.42011
MovieDramaRomance
Goran and Julia, Russian and Albanian, are two teenagers immigrant second generation, two children with dreams and ambition to escape the environment grew. Things for both young people will become even more complicated when their paths meet. Love is lightning, but the two worlds collide, threatening to destroy the first thrill they feel about each other.
Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάςΟ πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς · 1986
Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς
1986
MovieComedy
AcropolAcropol · 1996
Acropol
6.01996
MovieMusicDrama
1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ex-wonder-child of movies, who now runs an agency for extras. At first, Lakis is surprised by the prince's proposal, but finally decides to try his luck on the stage of the legendary theater.
Saison MorteSaison Morte · 2021
Saison Morte
4.02021
MovieHorrorThriller
When a series of brutal murders begins, Christos is the only person who can explain what happened. He starts narrating a story to two police officers, a story in which nobody is who they seem to be and they all switch roles and positions up until the final twist. A story about deception, following a narrative that manipulates till the very end.
The Other MeThe Other Me · 2017
The Other Me
7.92017
MovieMysteryCrime
A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story that features renowned French actor François Cluzet in a key-role.
The AtticThe Attic · 2011
The Attic
5.02011
MovieDramaFamily
The fall and rise of an ordinary man and the oddity from the attic. When Manos, A 50 year old man gets divorced with his wife, he moves into a new house in order to start over. Quite unexpectedly, he discovers something that will change his life forever. And rock on. A short film about parenthood, divorce, glitter.
The Right Pocket of the RobeThe Right Pocket of the Robe · 2018
The Right Pocket of the Robe
6.72018
MovieDrama
A monk of a Greek monastery, tries to cope with the unbearable sadness and loneliness , when he loses his little dog, the only companion he has got.

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From the Earth to the MoonFrom the Earth to the Moon · 2013
From the Earth to the Moon
5.02013
MovieAnimationComedy
In America, 100 years before the moon landing of Apollo 11, the bellicose bemoan their fates because the federal War is over and they all have fallen into inaction. They are reminiscent of the glorious past and feeling uncomfortable with the mournful clothes remaining unused in the closets and the green grass and the cotton growing back in the fields, as Verne writes characteristically! At that exact moment, the president of the Gun Club, Impey Barbicane, provided the solution by announcing that he has a plan to fire a cannonball to the Moon, an act that also constitutes the first substantial contact of man with the satellite of the Earth and will glorify the 36 United States of America all over the world.

(voice)

Two Turkish EggsTwo Turkish Eggs · 1987
Two Turkish Eggs
8.31987
MovieComedy
Giannis is a subversive young man who rebels against any social institution or authority. Unemployed by conviction, he cohabits with his German friend Ilze, who supports him, helps his arrogant uncle , a fallen aristocrat, with his drug smuggling, and becomes friends with a Pontian Turk, Mustapha. The latter has entered Greece illegally and follows Giannis to Athens, hoping to find his Greek grandmother, who is none other than Giannis' grandmother as well. Mustapha steals the hearty of Ilze, whom he entertains with tales of his exploits, but the uncle turns them over to the police, and so they are truly in a tight squeeze. They get out of doing time, despite it all, and leave for Turkey, but they stray into Albania, where they are arrested and sentenced to manual labor.
1821 at the Cinema1821 at the Cinema · 2021
1821 at the Cinema
2021
MovieDocumentaryHistory
In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century. until the present day. Despite the fact that the Revolution of 1821 constitutes the founding act of the modern Greek state, as a subject matter it is underrepresented in national film production. This is one of the points on which the research looks, which simultaneously examines the periods of concentration of films on the subject of the Revolution or, respectively, the periods of its collective silence. The purpose of the documentary is to study the ideological discourse and the cinematic language of the films with the theme of 1821, in order to highlight the function of the cinema as a carrier of Public History and as a factor in shaping the collective historical consciousness.

(archive footage)

Δια ταύταΔια ταύτα · 2013
Δια ταύτα
4.02013
SeriesComedy

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