Nikitas Tsakiroglou Movies
- 1991
Marios learns that he is HIV positive and is convinced that this situation arose either from his wife, whom he discovers has been having an affair, or his mistress. He gets his wife to have a blood test and she, too, is HIV positive. He is planning to get a divorce and marry his mistress when she reveals that she's been quite promiscuous and is HIV positive herself -- and doesn't want to marry him. Her way for bringing home to him the extent of her promiscuity is quite novel: she has him watch a slide show composed solely of pictures with her and her various holiday boyfriends. Since Marios was hoping to get free from his loveless marriage, this news doesn't please him much. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Anna Makraki, (more)
- 1991
While a dying elderly philosopher recites the words of Agamemnon in glorious sites connected with Greece's ancient history, an archaeologist and his assistant are working a site on a Greek island. They are joined by the archaeologist's daughter, who has a series of romantic adventures while her imperturbable, serious folks calmly go about their work of exhuming the past. She soon has a liaison with an Italian journalist whose interest in her father's work is difficult to countenance until it becomes clear that he could be involved in the lucrative but illegal business of buying and selling antiquities. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- André Wilms, Antigone Amanitou, (more)
- 1989
During the last half of the twentieth century, Greece has periodically had changes of government which resulted in sometimes heavy-handed rule by military juntas. One such period was between 1967-1974. This drama explores the lives of people who were deeply affected by that time. The types brought to the screen will be familiar to most Greeks, and will be less familiar to most others. This film won several top acting prizes in Greek film festivals. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Antonis Antoniou, Antonis Vlissidis, (more)
- 1987
Respectability is only precariously maintained by the abandoned husband of a woman who ran off with her lover before World War I. Somehow, he keeps his family of three daughters within the constraints of propriety, but he must hide away his eldest daughter's bastard son in order to do so. After he dies, the older sister tries to keep everything as it was, but the youngest girl wants love and life without the suffocating constraints that have been imposed on her, and she runs away with a young military officer. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Pemy Zouni, (more)
- 1985
This psychological, interpersonal look at the turmoil of a movie director combines sequences of both fantasy and reality to create an often indistinguishable line between the two. The director has been married for ten years, but after he begins an affair with another woman, his illicit love turns his life upside-down and threatens to destroy his marriage. His angst plays out against the background music of Frederic Chopin and a beautiful landscape, adding poetic elements that reinforce his inner, philosophical discourse. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vangelis Germanos, Olia Lazaridou, (more)
- 1984
In a well-conceived and excellently acted story of forbidden and unequal love, Heleni (Betty Livanou) is a bored housewife who misses the previous excitement of her career as a ballerina and cannot adjust to a dull life with her second husband. One day she meets a Greek executive who works for the European Common Market and there is an immediate attraction -- they decide to keep in touch by phone when he moves back to Paris where he lives with his wife and two children. The two of them plan a getaway to Lisbon for a week, and Heleni experiences all the joys of a new love, and fulfillment. While she thinks about how to tell her husband that their marriage has ended, she is in for an unpleasant surprise from her dashing lover. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Betty Livanou, Antonis Theodoracopoulos, (more)
- 1980
This passionate drama by Pavlos Tassios is based on a true story that involves both dancing and murder. The Greek bouzouki, a four-stringed musical instrument, is played at popular dance clubs specializing in that instrument alone. When two brothers take their dates to a bouzouki place to dance the night away, one brother requests "paraguelia" from the orchestra, meaning he will be dancing that number alone. But then someone else stands up and starts dancing, and that sends the brother into a rage. The two siblings start a fight over this breach of etiquette, and after the worst is over, six people are wounded and two are dead. The brothers escape, though it seems clear there is not much of a chance for them to evade capture. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Antonis Antoniou
- 1979
This bizarre drama, based on the play by George Skourtis, fails to expand beyond anything more than a filming of the original stage play. Peter and Paul accept a job offer from a man who wants them to act as nurses to his wife. Their employer provides the two with money, food, and drink as they live in a locked house to tend to the woman. They soon discover the woman is dead and embalmed, but they are expected to act as if the woman was still alive. Paul accepts the terms of the situation, but Peter wishes to leave. He is confronted by the master who insists the two men remain in servitude. Paul eyes Peter with malicious intent when the master orders him to kill Peter for wanting to leave. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vaguelis Kazan, Thimos Karakatsanis, (more)
- 1978
In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one wants to do much about leaving, and he does in fact cross the front threshold of the house with his lover, who is also the maid. However, before he has gotten very far, he is very tired, and goes to sleep where he stands. One of the sons outdoes them all by sleeping literally all the time. He is not in a coma -- he is just very, very lazy and tired. Some critics have viewed this film as a sharply delineated social satire. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Olga Karlatos, Dimitris Poulikakos, (more)
- 1974
Greek filmmaker Nikos Panayotopoulos wrote and directed this stylized ode to the French Nouvelle Vague films of the 1960s, blending elements of Resnais and Godard not entirely successfully, but with enough creative energy and love of craft that it remains interesting viewing. The story concerns a musician (Nikitas Tsakiroglou) who is working on the filming of a commercial when a peculiar man (Kostas Sfikas) holding an umbrella walks into one of the shots. Then, with no explanation, the man walks into the sea and vanishes without a trace. Intrigued, the musician begins to reconstruct the events leading up to the strange occurrence. He looks into the man's background for clues, piecing together obscure elements of loss, desire, and the nature of reality before eventually acting out the man's final moments, disappearing beneath the waves himself. Vangelis Kazan co-stars with Elena Kyrana and Yiorgos Moschidis. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
