Yiolanta Balaoura

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Yiolanta Balaoura

Yolanda Balaoura (Greek: Γιολάντα Μπαλαούρα) is a Greek actress. She was born and raised in Karpenisi. She studied at the Theodosiadis Drama School in Athens. She began her career as an actress in 1983 by participating in the film comedy Roda, hanto kai kopana No2 playing a student. In 1985, she made her television debut in the comedy series by Yannis Dalianidis Ta lioantarakia tou kyr-Ilias, hav…

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Ράδιο Κατίνα FM StereoΡάδιο Κατίνα FM Stereo · 1988
Ράδιο Κατίνα FM Stereo
1988
MovieComedy
My Cousin’s WeddingMy Cousin’s Wedding · 2026
My Cousin’s Wedding
2026
MovieDramaComedy
A forgotten wedding videotape holds the coming-of-age story of a girl, pieced together through fragments of family life in provincial Greece during the 2000s. From the wedding festivities before the ceremony to the couple’s exit from the church, childhood memories intertwine with contemporary recordings of her adult self.
Eugenios... other details unknownEugenios... other details unknown · 1997
Eugenios... other details unknown
1997
MovieComedy
Ανθρωποφάγοι στην TVΑνθρωποφάγοι στην TV · 1988
Ανθρωποφάγοι στην TV
★ 7.01988
MovieComedy
Larisa ConfidentialLarisa Confidential · 2012
Larisa Confidential
★ 5.32012
MovieComedy
Life in Pezoula and Vrysoula flowed harmoniously. Of course, it helped that there was a wall between the two villages, built from one end to the other, so that no one interfered in the other's business. But when Kallikrates comes to unite the two villages, everything is turned upside down! A prominent journalist dies, the biological treatment plant divides opinion, the minister is bribed, the starters come and go, the SDOE gets involved, the night owls are disturbed, individual and local interests get tangled up, while surprises and hilarious situations follow one after another...
Protari mou... as prosehesProtari mou... as prosehes · 1987
Protari mou... as prosehes
1987
MovieComedy
A young, inexperienced, and deeply in love man takes everything seriously, unlike his friend, for whom everything is just a fleeting game.
LugerLuger · 2021
Luger
★ 6.32021
MovieDrama
The events of this film, spanning from the very first moments after the Occupation until the first years of the 1980s. In those years, which are crucial for Greek History, the adventurous path of a poor family is illustrated, that’s slowly going to end up filthy rich. The members of the aforesaid family found out the hard way, that money cannot buy happiness.
Poisonous WomenPoisonous Women · 1993
Poisonous Women
★ 5.21993
MovieDramaRomance
It is a story of a normal, everyday Greek family that each member turns out to be wacko or gets wacko by the other members. The father is the stoic figure that accepts everything. The mother has a middle age crisis and takes advantage of her husbands inability. The older brother is a doctor of psychology and has everything under control (or believe so) and the younger brother does nothing with his life acclaiming that he is a filmmaker.

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Gamos sto PerithorioGamos sto Perithorio · 1989
Gamos sto Perithorio
★ 7.01989
MovieDrama
An 80-year-old widower, Mr. Elias, goes to his village (Perithorio, where he had been president of the community for twenty-four consecutive years) to vote in the municipal elections. There he meets his childhood sweetheart (Fotini, also a widow). Their youthful engagement had been broken off due to a misunderstanding, but now their love is rekindled and they are considering marriage, despite the opposition of Fotini's daughter. When one day the village madman announces their rendezvous, the elderly couple, panicked, take the bus and flee to Drama. There they spend carefree, tender moments, but Mr. Elias' son, Aristides, finds them and forces them to return. However, the big decision has already been made, and when Mr. Elias' pension for former mayors and community presidents comes through, nothing can stop the couple anymore. Fotini comes to Athens and, together with Elias, they visit her grandson.

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