Giorgos Konstas

Acting

Giorgos Konstas

Born January 1, 1949 · Piraeus, Greece

Died January 17, 2015 · aged 66

George Konstas (born in Piraeus in 1949) studied at the Drama School of the Piraeus Association and at the Piraeus Conservatory (classical singing and flute). He also studied dance and worked in Zouzou Nikoloudi's Chorika and Rallou Manou's Chorodrama. For several years he worked at the National Theater with directors Alexis Minotis, Alexis Solomos, Spyros Evangelatos and others. From 1983 to 1987…

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.
VarietéVarieté · 1985
Varieté
5.01985
MovieComedyDrama
An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
Ulysses' GazeUlysses' Gaze · 1995
Ulysses' Gaze
7.51995
MovieDramaHistory
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
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.
The Christmas TangoThe Christmas Tango · 2011
The Christmas Tango
7.42011
MovieDramaRomance
At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.
The AtheniansThe Athenians · 1990
The Athenians
7.01990
MovieComedy
This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.
The Years of the Big HeatThe Years of the Big Heat · 1992
The Years of the Big Heat
5.41992
MovieDrama
One woman's lonely search for the truth about her mother's murder.
Reverse courseReverse course · 1987
Reverse course
1987
MovieDramaRomance
As a coincidental event unites a publisher and a hospital manager, sinister revelations entangle the couple with the aspiration of an editor-in-chief. Will he unearth the truth? After all, almost everybody has a skeleton in the closet.

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The AtheniansThe Athenians · 1990
The Athenians
7.01990
MovieComedy
This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.
Love Me Not?Love Me Not? · 1989
Love Me Not?
5.61989
MovieComedyDrama
Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.