Maria Protopappa

Acting

Maria Protopappa

Born February 28, 1971 · Korydallos, Attica, Greece (age 55)

Maria Protopappa (Korydallos, February 28, 1971) is a Greek television, theater and film actress. She was born and raised in Korydallos, Attica. In her teens, she enrolled in an amateur troupe and, later, studied at the "Karolos Koon" Art Theater, from where she graduated in the mid-1990s. For the next six years, she worked as an actor in the theater, exclusively in its performances. Her televis…

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Dancing on IceDancing on Ice · 2009
Dancing on Ice
2009
MovieDrama
New Year 1996. The Balkans are shaken by nationalist wars, after the overthrow of socialist regimes. The wars have resulted in economic crisis and large population displacements. Three women, unknown to each other, from different Eastern European countries, meet in a border town in Bulgaria, in order to cross illegally into Greece.
In Good CompanyIn Good Company · 2000
In Good Company
5.42000
MovieComedy
A convict out of prison to visit his mother, followed by two policemen. A lunatic out of the asylum, followed by two doctors. Their meeting is the beginning of the most hilarious situations, as they begin their quest for freedom
Playing PartsPlaying Parts · 2003
Playing Parts
2003
MovieRomanceDrama
A group of friends decide to marry
Adults in the RoomAdults in the Room · 2019
Adults in the Room
6.52019
MovieDrama
A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.
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.
FonissaFonissa · 2023
Fonissa
6.42023
MovieDrama
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
BrazileroBrazilero · 2001
Brazilero
5.72001
MovieDramaComedy
Vasilis Arvanitakis after spending the E.U money for buying a poor Brazilian Football player, must face the two members of the E.U who will come to check how and where the money is spent...
The SignatureThe Signature · 2011
The Signature
5.02011
MovieDrama
Anna, a young art historian, is preparing an exhibition on the painter Maria Dimou, whose death is shrouded in mystery. Drawing information from Dimou's partner, Angelos, she gradually begins to discover that both he and Maria's life hide many dark secrets.

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FonissaFonissa · 2023
Fonissa
6.42023
MovieDrama
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.

Delcharo (Hadoula's mother)