Lena Kitsopoulou

Acting

Lena Kitsopoulou

Lena Kitsopoulou was born in Athens in 1971 and graduated from the Art Theater Drama School in 1994 and has since worked as an actress in the theater and the cinema. Her first collection of short stories, "Bats" (Kedros Publishers) came out in 2006 and won the Debut Author Prize of the Diavazo magazine. Two more short story collections have followed since, "Big Roads" and "Fish Eye" (both from Met…

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BeckettBeckett · 2021
Beckett
6.22021
MovieCrimeAction
An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.
Earth and WaterEarth and Water · 1999
Earth and Water
7.71999
MovieDrama
Nicolas is a shepherd. He is around twenty years old, thin and spirited. Constantina is eighteen years old. Constantina fell in love with Nikolas the very first time she saw him with his lyre at the bull sacrifice ritual. She entered the whirlpool of ecstasy and became his lover. Their relationship was clearly physical, all other things were setting them apart. Constantina decides that they should break up. "We come from different places and head in different directions", she says. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she does not tell Nikolas.
Ο ΚαραγκιόζηςΟ Καραγκιόζης · 2019
Ο Καραγκιόζης
2019
Movie
Trying to overcome his childhood injuries, Christos-Raphael resorts to various solutions. He does group self-improvement exercises, buys his favorite car, builds the house of his dreams, with hidden lighting and a bathroom for the guests. But when the right time comes, he understands how he becomes himself, all that he hid so desperately under the carpet for so many years.
PariPari · 2020
Pari
6.82020
MovieDrama
Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn't show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill-prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. All their attempts to find a clue that might lead them to him prove to be in vain and they soon reach a dead end. But Pari can't give up looking for him, even when returning to Iran seems like her only choice. Following the steps of her rebellious son in the darkest corners of the city, she will exhaust her inner strength to achieve more than a mother's search for her missing son.
Playing PartsPlaying Parts · 2003
Playing Parts
2003
MovieRomanceDrama
A group of friends decide to marry
PareesParees · 2007
Parees
4.52007
MovieDrama
Holy Week in Pelion. Two friendly Athenians couples find in their yard corpse of a stranger. They try to avoid the charge of murder by locals, while in the whole fuss becoming uncovered secrets that will change the lives of everyone.
Think it OverThink it Over · 2002
Think it Over
5.22002
MovieComedyRomance
All indications were that Maraki was made for great things, for honor and distinctions. And yet contrary to all expectations our heroine cops out. She refuses to take the university entrance exams is left behind in the country town selling fruit tarts. No one can figure out how come that whiz kid got left behind. Neither can anyone understand why Maraki isn't mad at fate for having wronged her so flagrantly. How does she manage to be so creative and optimistic, ready to do battle with the everyday injustices of life wherever the may appear? She appears to understand something that all the others ignore.
The Gaze AdventureThe Gaze Adventure · 2023
The Gaze Adventure
5.02023
MovieDrama
"The Gaze Adventure" is simultaneously an essay film and a fiction film. that approaches the multiple function of the gaze as a main element of the cinematic world, and as a carrier of the cinematic journey.

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AbsentAbsent · 1995
Absent
8.71995
SeriesDrama
Another great success by Mirella Papaikonomou, which outlines in the most dramatic way the catalytic power of absence. The series is filmed, for the most part, in enchanting locations in Crete. The messes at his daughter's wedding party hide his plans. In the wake of the mantinades, Sifis packs his things and says goodbye to his wife after 22 years of marriage. The closed society of Chania is in uproar. And as she desperately demands "purification", his wife will search for the reasons that led Sifis to this decision. And while he is absent, Stathis, his close childhood friend, stands by his wife's side. Can the absence of a loved one prove worse than his presence? And how catalytic can this absence prove to be for people's relationships and emotions?

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