Acting
Katerina Gogou
Born June 1, 1940 · Athens, Greece
Died October 3, 1993 · aged 53
Katerina Gogou (Greek: Κατερίνα Γώγου; 1940–1993) was a Greek actress, poet, author and anarchist activist. She was born in 1940 during World War II and the Axis occupation of Greece, for which she did not spend a pleasant childhood. She had a strict father with whom she lived during her childhood. Afterwards, in her teenage years, she lived with her mother. From the age of 5 years she started act…
Known For
The Barber's Beauty · 1969The Barber's Beauty
★ 5.41969
MovieComedy
A barber tries to find husbands for his four sisters so that he can marry his fiancee.
And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband · 1965And 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..
Nomos 4000 · 1962Nomos 4000
★ 6.11962
MovieDrama
Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ..
The Antisocial · 1977The Antisocial
★ 7.01977
MovieDramaComedy
A provincial café owner, Mimis, abandons his village in Chalkidiki and comes to Athens in search of a better life. He pretends to be a tough guy, a know-it-all, and behaves like an “antisocial”. With the help of a friend of his from the army, Aristeidis, he tries to set up his own business. At the same time, he falls in love with a seamstress, Toula, who is the sister of Aristeidis’ wife. Then comes the wedding, the everyday obligations, and Mimis is forced, with great resentment, to work as a waiter to make ends meet. When he get fired, however, his relationship with Nitsa is put to the test.
Crazy Girls Awesome Boys · 1970Crazy Girls Awesome Boys
★ 8.01970
MovieComedy
Two detergent entrepreneurs decide to marry their children, each believing that their rival holds the secret to a certain type of biological enzyme. However, their children react to these machinations and devise their own plan to counter their parents' illicit ambitions.
Love forever · 1970Love forever
★ 7.51970
MovieDramaRomance
A spoiled rich girl falls in love with a poor, good-looking but also talented pianist, rejecting a wealthy suitor from her own class. However, a combination of her parents' pressure and a misunderstanding with her beloved leads her to accept the proposal of a wealthy businessman. At the same time, an accident obliges the young pianist to abandon his piano for quite a long time. And although the young girl stands by him in his time of need, she leaves him the moment he recovers. However, on the night of his first concert, she returns to his side, determined to spend their life together.
Τα παληόπαιδα · 1963Τα παληόπαιδα
★ 7.01963
MovieCrimeDrama
Yes, But... · 1972Yes, But...
★ 4.31972
MovieDrama
A young man pushed beyond his endurance remembers his life on the roof of a tall building. He's there to commit suicide.
Movies
The Barber's Beauty · 1969The Barber's Beauty
★ 5.41969
MovieComedy
A barber tries to find husbands for his four sisters so that he can marry his fiancee.
And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband · 1965And 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..
Nomos 4000 · 1962Nomos 4000
★ 6.11962
MovieDrama
Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ..
The Antisocial · 1977The Antisocial
★ 7.01977
MovieDramaComedy
A provincial café owner, Mimis, abandons his village in Chalkidiki and comes to Athens in search of a better life. He pretends to be a tough guy, a know-it-all, and behaves like an “antisocial”. With the help of a friend of his from the army, Aristeidis, he tries to set up his own business. At the same time, he falls in love with a seamstress, Toula, who is the sister of Aristeidis’ wife. Then comes the wedding, the everyday obligations, and Mimis is forced, with great resentment, to work as a waiter to make ends meet. When he get fired, however, his relationship with Nitsa is put to the test.
Crazy Girls Awesome Boys · 1970Crazy Girls Awesome Boys
★ 8.01970
MovieComedy
Two detergent entrepreneurs decide to marry their children, each believing that their rival holds the secret to a certain type of biological enzyme. However, their children react to these machinations and devise their own plan to counter their parents' illicit ambitions.
Love forever · 1970Love forever
★ 7.51970
MovieDramaRomance
A spoiled rich girl falls in love with a poor, good-looking but also talented pianist, rejecting a wealthy suitor from her own class. However, a combination of her parents' pressure and a misunderstanding with her beloved leads her to accept the proposal of a wealthy businessman. At the same time, an accident obliges the young pianist to abandon his piano for quite a long time. And although the young girl stands by him in his time of need, she leaves him the moment he recovers. However, on the night of his first concert, she returns to his side, determined to spend their life together.
Τα παληόπαιδα · 1963Τα παληόπαιδα
★ 7.01963
MovieCrimeDrama
Yes, But... · 1972Yes, But...
★ 4.31972
MovieDrama
A young man pushed beyond his endurance remembers his life on the roof of a tall building. He's there to commit suicide.
A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush · 1965A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
★ 5.71965
MovieComedy
The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves. When her uncle from America and her older sister arrive, the situation radically changes, because the new arrivals happen to be open-minded and view things in a different light.
Koutroulis` Wedding · 1962Koutroulis` Wedding
★ 5.01962
MovieComedy
A tailor mistakenly considered an ambassador of a foreign country, which exploits the future father in law to present him as a groom on frivolous daughter.
Miss Manager · 1964Miss Manager
★ 7.51964
MovieComedy
The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of which she takes over the management, but at the same time, she is looking to find ways of charm to conquer the lively sub-engineer Alekos Samiotakis.
Parangelia! · 1980Parangelia!
★ 7.51980
MovieDramaCrime
The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespecting his brother Demos' zeibekiko, a traditional Greek dance.
Τα κοθώνια του θρανίου · 1962Τα κοθώνια του θρανίου
★ 10.01962
MovieComedy
Maiden's Cheek · 1959Maiden's Cheek
★ 7.01959
MovieComedy
Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.
Dracula and Company · 1959Dracula and Company
★ 7.51959
MovieMysteryComedy
Comedy where Athanassios inherits a castle supposedly inhabited by Count Dracula, and decides to settle the question.
Great Brides, Gullible Grooms · 1972Great Brides, Gullible Grooms
★ 8.01972
MovieComedy
Gina, daughter of businessman Archelaou, runs away from home to not marry the groom she chose her father. Together with her friend Buster trying to escape from the detective she looks. While searching for Gina and Johnny, an unemployed young man who plays the rich to impress.
What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi? · 1971What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
★ 6.61971
MovieDramaComedy
A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.
A Crazy Crazy Family · 1965A Crazy Crazy Family
★ 7.91965
MovieComedy
Mika is a young woman living in a crazy ... family. Her mother, Pasta Flora, is alienated, her little sister is uncontrollable, and her father is a good, but cowardly, man. She's engaged to Mikis but the day before their wedding she goes to Venice and marries Andreas, who, after meeting her family, he undertakes to make sense of them.
The Right-Minded Madman · 1968The Right-Minded Madman
★ 6.11968
MovieComedy
A wretch employee wins a lot of money in the lottery and loses his mind. When he comes out of the mental hospital, he finds out that things at his home have changed radically.
1922 · 19781922
★ 5.71978
MovieDramaHistory
Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.
The child of the square · 1961The child of the square
★ 6.71961
MovieComedy
An unemployed man (Kostas Chatzichristos), prone to endless amusements, economically sucks his uncle (Periklis Christoforidis) in order to satisfy his desires. His despair, when his uncle decides to stop the economic benefits, will lead him to sell some furniture of the house. He sells four armchairs and then he learns that in one of them were hidden precious jewels of the aunt. He looks desperately to find and to get them back, but he only discovers three of them, and in these there is no trace of jewelry. To find the fourth and lucky one, whose traces are completely ignored, he accepts partnered with a friend (Takis Christoforidis). He is transformed into an organized, consistent and good working man, and falls in love with his sister's partner (Stella Stratigou) and discovers that the fourth chair was held by his uncle, who set up this whole story to motivate him and make him active.
South Wind · 1984South Wind
★ 5.31984
MovieDrama
A group of intellectuals holidaying together at an isolated beach become mentally unhinged by the presence of a beautiful English nudist.
The Liar · 1963The Liar
★ 5.31963
MovieComedy
Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in the book--including a cunning but charming impersonation--to reach her goal. But, will the pampered heiress have it her way once more?
Katerina Gogou: For the Restoration of Blackness · 2013Katerina Gogou: For the Restoration of Blackness
2013
MovieDocumentaryDrama
The biography of poet and actress Katerina Gogou. In the film, Boskoitis combines exclusively in black and white, archival material and interviews with Gogou's friends and collaborators, along with dramatized sketches from her life (starring Loukia Michalopoulou) as well as well-known, set-to-music poems of hers.