Aliki Vouyouklaki Movies
For much of her long acting career, dark-eyed classically beautiful Aliki Vouyouklaki was hailed as Greece's "national star." Vouyouklaki launched her professional career in films in 1953. She began appearing on-stage in 1959. In cinema she starred in 41 films; her most popular films include The Little Mouse (1954), which is the Greek version of My Fair Lady, and Aliki in the Navy (1963). While she was best-known in her native land, Vouyouklaki also had followings in Israel and Turkey. Screenings of her films were a favorite part of Great Britain's Edinburgh Festival. Vouyouklaki passed away from cancer in an Athens hospital on July 23, 1996; she was 63. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1967
This amusing Greek farce was adapted for the screen by Nikos Tsiforos and Polyvios Vassiliadis from their successful stage play, and winningly directed by Yiorgos Skalenakis. Dimitris Papamichael plays Dimitris, who is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his boss (Yiannis Michalopoulos) for dinner, as an impressive evening just might help him become deputy director of the company for which he works. Unfortunately, Dimitris' wife Nina (Aliki Vouyouklaki) -- having never been introduced to her husband's employer -- had a fight with him over a taxicab earlier the same day. In order to minimize the potential damage, Dimitris has Nina pretend to be the family maid, and introduces the real maid (Maria Konstandarou) as his wife. Naturally, as the evening progresses, Dimitris' boss begins warming up to his former enemy, not realizing that she is, in reality, already married. The resultant complications are inevitably resolved, but not before a good deal of wonderfully funny confusion. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Aliki Vouyouklaki, Dimitris Papamichael, (more)
- 1966
A married couple separates when the husband gains fame as a singer in this musical comedy. The house painter becomes a star of the stage and is coveted by a lusty woman of wealth. The man's wife figures two can play this game, and she too becomes a star. The couple resolves their differences when the wife becomes pregnant, and the husband agrees to sire many children to keep his wife happy. The film is reminiscent of American musical comedies of the 1930s. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Aliki Vouyouklaki, Rika Dialina, (more)
- 1963
Pretty Aliki Vouyouklaki had starred in several successful Greek films, notably the previous year's I Aliki Sto Naftiko, when the decision was made to promote her internationally. To that end, Finos Films entered into an atypical co-production with Aquarius Films for this outing, helmed by well-known director Rudolph Mate (D.O.A., When Worlds Collide). The plot, such as it is, has Jess Conrad as Barry, the playboy heir to a hamburger sauce fortune. His lawyer (Wilfrid Hyde-White) tells him that the secret recipe to the sauce was buried with his late uncle, and all he has inherited is a small Greek island which he is too poor to maintain. Aliki (Vouyouklaki) is the local schoolteacher there, and she soon begins a romance with Barry. Aliki, of course, knows the secret sauce recipe, which makes Barry rich enough to prevent the sale of the island to a hotel tycoon who wants to turn it into a resort. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Aliki Vouyouklaki, Jess Conrad, (more)
When love strikes an admiral's daughter, she sneaks aboard the ship of her love. Can she stay hidden indefinitely, though, when it sails off on maneuvers? ~ All Movie Guide
- 1961
Madalena (Aliki Vouyoukiaki) is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job (her mother has also died). So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son (Dimitris Papamichael) is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Aliki Vouyouklaki, Dimitris Papamichael, (more)
- 1960
This immensely successful remake of the 1929 foustanella classic was directed by Dinos Dimopoulos and quickly established its stars (Dimitris Papamichael and the beautiful Aliki Vouyouklaki) as the Greek cinema's top box-office draws. The story itself rigidly follows the conventions of its subgenre, although because Greek filmmakers were still churning out foustanellas for decades afterward, it hardly seems more dated than the original. Once again, it tells the tale of Mitros (Titos Vandis), a wealthy herd owner with a foster daughter named Astero (Vouyouklaki) whom he marries off to another herd owner, despite the fact that she and his son Thimios (Papamichael) are desperately in love. The other herd owner dies and Astero loses her mind a bit (although she doesn't wig out quite as spectacularly as Aliki Theodoridou in the silent original), but Mitros finally comes to the right decision and allows the children to marry. Astero made a ton of money and represented Greece at the Berlin Film Festival, where it was greeted with the same sort of head-scratching incomprehension that tends to result when any uniquely specific national subgenre makes its international debut. Stefanos Stratigos and Athanassia Moustaka co-star. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
