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Alekos Livaditis
Alekos Livaditis ( el, Αλέκος Λειβαδίτης, 1914 – March 23, 1980) was a Greek actor in theatre and cinema. He was the son of Lissandros. Biography He was a graduate of the Central Trade School. His first appearance was in the movie '' To tragoudi tou horismou'' (''The Divorce Song''). He also played in '' Voice of the Heart'' (1942), ''I vila me ta noufara'' (1944), '' Gambros me dossis'' (1947), ''O emiris ke o kakomiris'' (1963), etc. He took part in the empty hermitage as he disappeared from prose theater with Christoforos Nezer and Anna Lori in 1948 at the '' Akropol''. From then he participated in great acts including Kalouta- Krevata-Rena Dor in 1949, Kalouta only in 1950 and later with Orestis Makris, Vassilis Avlonitis, Nikos Stavridis, Rena Vlachopoulou, K. Hadjihristou, Kaiti Diridaua and Sofia Vebo in many musical presentations and comedies. He began writing articles in 1949 elsewhere in Egypt, Cyprus, Istanbul in which he done in 1951 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh List of urban areas in the European Union, largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful Greek city-state, city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Platonic Academy, Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum (classical), Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of civilization, cradle of Western culture, Western civilization and the democracy#History, birthplace of democracy, larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Stavridis
Nikos Stavridis ( el, Νίκος Σταυρίδης; 1910 – 14 December 1987) was a Greek actor in film and theater. Biography He started his career at a musical theatre, he participated in shows, operettas and varieties. In the 1940s, he began to make his own company and combined with famous stars especially Rena Vlachopoulou, the Kalouta sisters, Kaiti Diridaoua and Marika Nezer, also Kaiti Belinda and Marika Nezer (1958: Teddy Boys by Gialama-Thisviou-Pretenteris), also with Dionyssis Papayiannopoulos and Sofia Vembo in 1959, Costas Hadjihristos (1963), etc. He took part in a space (1954–55) in which he worked together with Takis Miliaids and Nana Skiada in the ''Greek Musical Comedy'' in which raised his shows even it is a prose, even the comedy '' Ten Days in Paris'' with Dionyssis Papayiannopoulos (1960). He entered even into film. He played his first role in movies (''I oraia ton Athinon'', 1952), Orestis Laskos (''I ftochia thelei kaloperassi'', 1957, ''Ftoha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice Of The Heart (1943 Film)
''The Voice of the Heart'' (Greek: ''Η φωνή της καρδιάς'') is a 1943 Greek drama film directed by Dimitris Ioannopoulos and starring Aimilios Veakis, Dimitris Horn and Ketty Panou. It was one of only of a handful of Greek films produced during the Occupation of Greece during the Second World War. Location shooting took place around Kifissia in Athens. It enjoyed great success with audiences and critics.''Cinema and the Swastika''. p.153 Synopsis After many years in prison a man returns to his old house, hoping to meet the daughter he has never known while she has been growing up. Cast * Aimilios Veakis as Spyros * Dimitris Horn as Petros * Ketty Panou as Lila * Labros Konstadaras as Tzortzis * Alekos Livaditis as Alexis * Nitsa Tsaganea as Stella * Pantelis Zervos * Nikos Matthaios * Smaroula Giouli * Vana Filippidou * Stelios Vokovich * Sotiria Iatridou * Smaro Veaki * Giannis Kondoulis * Eleni Halkousi * Vana Theohary Vana (or with diacrits, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Parting Song (film)
''The Parting Song'' (Greek:''To tragoudi tou horismou'') is a 1939 Greek drama film directed by Filopimin Finos and starring Evgenia Danika, Labros Konstadaras and Linda Miranda. It was the only film directed by Finos, better-known for running the production company Finos Films. The film was long thought to be lost after it was destroyed by the Germans during the Occupation of Greece, but a fragmented copy was discovered in Egypt. The film is notable as the first Greek film to be processed in a Greek technical laboratory (previous films had been processed abroad) which had been built by Finos Films. The film was a commercial failure on its release, and met a hostile reception from critics.Karalis p.34 Synopsis While holidaying on the island of Hydra, a wealthy Athenian woman meets and falls in love with a local fisherman. She seduces him away from his girlfriend and takes him with her to the city to pursue a career as a singer. Despite enjoying success, he decides that city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Votanikos
Votanikos ( el, Βοτανικός, ) is a neighborhood located 3 km west of the downtown part of the Greek capital of Athens. The area is named after a nearby botanical garden situated to the southwest ( Athens Botanical Gardens). The eastern part are residential, the western part are forested and industrialized. The subdivision has no squares but has a nearby school. Major streets bordering this subdivision includes Patsi Street to the west, Athinon Avenue to the north, Konstantinopouleos Avenue and the rail to the south and Petrou Ralli Avenue to the south. The Iera Odos runs in the middle. The population is around 5,000–6,000 people and the area is about 0.5 km². Athens's first mosque will be in Votanikos district. Neighboring quarters *Akadimia Platonos, north * Profitis Daniil, northeast * Asyrmatos, south *Kato Petralona, south History The area saw housing developments in the early part of the 20th century when Athens' began to grow as well as an indust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria grew rapidly and became a major centre of Hellenic civilisation, eventually replacing Memphis, in present-day Greater Cairo, as Egypt's capital. During the Hellenistic period, it was home to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which ranked among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as well as the storied Library of Alexandria. Today, the library is reincarnated in the disc-shaped, ultramodern Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Its 15th-century seafront Qaitbay Citadel is now a museum. Called the "Bride of the Mediterranean" by locals, Alexandria is a popular tourist destination and an important industrial centre due to its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. The city extends about along the northern coast of Egypt, and is the large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Of Greece
Paul ( el, Παύλος, ''Pávlos''; 14 December 1901 – 6 March 1964) was King of Greece from 1 April 1947 until his death in 1964. He was succeeded by his son, Constantine II. Paul was first cousin to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and father-in-law to Juan Carlos I of Spain. Early life Paul was born on 14 December 1901 at the Tatoi Palace in Attica north of Athens, the third son of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia. He trained as an army officer at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and later at the Hellenic Military Academy in Kypseli, Athens. Paul was an army officer cadet in the Coldstream Guards and Lieutenant with the Evzones. From 1917 to 1920, Paul lived in exile with his father, Constantine I. From 1923 to 1935, he lived in exile again in England, this time with his brother, George II. He worked briefly in an aircraft factory under an alias, and through Viscount Tredegar met and befriended notorious litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greco-Italian War
The Greco-Italian War (Greek: Ελληνοϊταλικός Πόλεμος, ''Ellinoïtalikós Pólemos''), also called the Italo-Greek War, Italian Campaign in Greece, and the War of '40 in Greece, took place between the kingdoms of Italy and Greece from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. This local war began the Balkans Campaign of World War II between the Axis powers and the Allies and eventually turned into the Battle of Greece with British and German involvement. On 10 June 1940, Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom. By September 1940, the Italians had invaded France, British Somaliland and Egypt. This was followed by a hostile press campaign in Italy against Greece, accused of being a British ally. A number of provocations culminated in the sinking of the Greek light cruiser ''Elli'' by the Italians on 15 August. On 28 October, Mussolini issued an ultimatum to Greece demanding the cession of Greek territory, which the Prime Minister of Greece, Ioannis Metaxa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George II Of Greece
George II ( el, Γεώργιος Βʹ, ''Geórgios II''; 19 July Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/> O.S.: 7 July1890 – 1 April 1947) was List of kings of Greece">King of Greece from September 1922 to March 1924 and from November 1935 to his death in April 1947. The eldest son of King Constantine I and Sophia of Prussia">Constantine I of Greece">Constantine I and Sophia of Prussia, George followed his father into exile in 1917 following the National Schism, while his younger brother Alexander was installed as king. Constantine was restored to the throne in 1920 but was forced to abdicate two years later in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War. George acceded to the Greek throne, but after a failed royalist coup in October 1923 he was exiled to Romania. Greece was proclaimed a republic in March 1924 and George was formally deposed and stripped of Greek nationality. He remained in exile until the Greek monarchy was restored in 1935, upon which he resumed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Actors Guild
Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek. **Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC). **Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC. **Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity. **Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. **Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD). *Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language. *Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church. *Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity. *Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD. Other uses * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
100,000 Pounds
''100,000 Pounds'' ( el, Εκατό χιλιάδες λίρες, translit=Ekato hiliades lires) is a 1948 Greek film directed by Alekos Leivaditis and starring Mimis Fotopoulos, Dinos Iliopoulos and Kaiti Panou. The film was produced by Mer Film. The film is directed by Alekos Leivadiris (an actor and a director in theatre and film) with operator (photographer) Prodromos Meravidis and writer Nikos Tsiforos. The music was composed by Menelaos Theofanidis. Before the movie was released to the screen, it had two working titles: ''100,000 Pounds'' and ''Gabri me ''. Cast *Mimis Fotopoulos ..... Kleomenis *Dinos Iliopoulos ..... Chronis * Kaiti Panou ..... Pagona Katife *Alekos Leivaditis Alekos ( el, Αλέκος) is a masculine given name, a diminutive of Alexander, which may refer to: *Alekos Alavanos (born 1950), Greek politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament *Alekos Alekou (born 1983), Cypriot football striker who played ... ..... Frixos Delapis * Giorgos Damasiotis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
