Manos Katrakis
Emmanuel "Manos" Katrakis (Greek: Εμμανουήλ (Μάνος) Κατράκης; 14 August 1908 – 3 September 1984) was a Greek actor of theater and film. Along with actor/director Kostas Leloudas, he acted in his first movie To Lavaro tou '21 in 1928. He later performed in the Ethniko Theatro (the National Theatre) in 1931. During the 1930s, he continued acting in theatrical plays (he was friends with the maestro Dimitris Mitropoulos). He married Anna Lori in 1943. He took part in the resistance as a member of EAM/ELAS[citation needed] and after refusing to sign a declaration of repentance during the Greek Civil War of 1946–49, he was exiled to Makronisos, along with such other well-known figures as Yiannis Ritsos, Nikos Koundouros, Mikis Theodorakis and Thanasis Veggos. In the 1950s he returned to Athens from Makronisos but there was little acting work. He was handed both small and big roles in plays and films. In 1954, he married his third and last wife named Linda Alma (real name Eleni Malioufa). Shortly before his death, he filmed his last and best movie Taxidi sta Kythira, the Journey to Kythera/Kythira, with director Theo Angelopoulos.
Voyage to Cythera
as SpyrosAn old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with...
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Electra
as The TutorLiving in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped...
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The Red Lanterns
as Nikolas Maroukis, ship captainThe inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
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A Dream of Passion
as uncreditedMelina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake...
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Treason
as Professor Victor KastriotisLieutenant Karl von Stein (Petros Fyssoun) is serving in Greece as an enlightenment officer for...
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Concert for Machine Guns
as Major General DareiosAthens, shortly before the outbreak of World War II and an Army General Staff official, Niki...
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The Refugee
as Athanasios DaoutisThe adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which...
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Face to Face with Death
as Lykourgos VenetisSeven months after the declaration of the Greco-Italian War, a volunteer nurse and a small group...
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Visibility Zero
as Horst RichterAngelos Kreouzis (Nikos Kourkoulos) survives a shipwreck and reveals to the committee in charge...
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The Roundup
as uncreditedOne of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I...
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Abuse of authority
as Kanelos VasilopoulosA police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a...
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The Trial of the Judges
as Theodoros KolokotronisA true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant...
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Blood on the Land
as Father HormovasTwo rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek...
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Synoikia to Oneiro
as NekroforasA poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live...
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The Man with the Carnation
as Nikolaos PlastirasThe story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come...
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The Immigrant
as uncreditedA young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed...
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Antigone
as CreonIn Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta,...
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The years of the storm
as Old ManThe years of the storm are Greek historical - dramatic - adventurous film of 1984, directed and...
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Crazy Blood
as PontikakisThe adventures of a very beautiful young Cretan, who because of the beauty of the suffering of...
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With Fear and Passion
as Alexandros ViaskosAn incorruptible examiner finds the real culprit of a brutal homicide and tries to release his...
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Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927
as PetrosA biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period...
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Brother Anna
as Father VasileiosAndreas, nephew of the abbot of the Monastery of Dionysios, who died eight years previously,...
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Bad, Cold, and Cantankerous
as Alekos ValirisFinancially hard-pressed, a good-hearted coffee-shop owner asks his twin brother and famous...
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Τι κι αν γεννήθηκα φτωχός
as Mr. RazisThe poor daughter of a once-famous musician sees her world turn upside down when she gets fired,...
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Tears for Electra
as Tasos PatridisIntent on hurting herself, a beautiful but desperate daughter crashes her car on the day of her...
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The Jungle of Cities
as Lysias SekerisAthens, 1964. A police reporter, Nikos Avgeris, has the journalistic mission to cover a...
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Rebels Of The Cities
as Fotis' FatherA Middle East allied Force commander, Themis, parachutes in occupied Greece to organize a...
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The Magic City
as observer - narratorA look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries...
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I blame the People
as Elefterios DimitropoulosA new, ambitious prosecutor undertakes a great trial for a murder trial but things get very...
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Refugee Girl on the Run
as ArgyrisAfter the death of her kind stepfather and Pontian Greek refugee, a young woman arrives in...
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A woman's sacrifice
as uncreditedA wealthy young man with a bright future, Andreas, finishes the Polytechnic at a time when the...
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I Love Only You
as uncreditedA poor and refined water fisherman, Zafeiris Kassis (Nikos Xanthopoulos), who was invited by the...
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Hours of love, hours of war
as uncreditedTowards the end of the war, Eleni meets the rebel Kostas, who is being pursued by the Germans....
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The Raid of the Aegean
as ΡαΐδηςCaptain Alexis Komninos manages to escape from the Germans, with the help of the abbot Prudence...
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So Many Dreams on the Streets
as Mose AronTwo ambitious young employees land a job at the small store of an avaricious man, intending to...
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The Protectors
as uncreditedUp against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm...
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Story of a Lifetime
as Mikes PapadimasTargeted for her beauty and pilloried by members of her own village, a poor and orphaned young...
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Persecution
as PriestWe are in 1942, in the middle of the German Occupation, on an island opposite the coast of Asia...
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The Murderess
as Narrator (voice)An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros...
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Triumph
as BournokosAn unexpected big break changes the life of a young, ambitious actor.
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The Cannon and the Nightingale
as uncreditedA quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2
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Jane Eyre
as uncreditedAfter a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a...
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True Love
as LiakosIt is the third film in a row of the type that much later on was called "fustanella (Greek...
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Eva
as AlekosYoung Antinoos is on vacation on an island where he meets a seductive woman, Eva, who is having...
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The Exodus of Messolongi
as uncreditedThe last days of the historic siege of Messolonghi. The film depicts the whole situation that...
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