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The Big Streets
''The Big Streets'' (Greek: ''Megaloi dromoi'') is a 1953 Greek drama film directed by Grigoris Grigoriou and starring Dinos Dimopoulos, Liana Liapi and Giannis Argyris. It was neorealist in style. Its failure at the box office led Grigoriou to turn to making more potentially commercial films.Karalis p.59 Cast * Dinos Dimopoulos as Nikos Gerasimou * Liana Liapi as Margarita * Giannis Argyris as Thomas Gerasimou * Giorgos Vlahopoulos * Veatriki Deligianni * Giorgos Dimou * Popi Deligianni * Stavros Xenidis Stavros Xenidis ( el, Σταύρος Ξενίδης, 1924 - 2 November 2008) was a Greek actor. He was married to actress Margarita Lambrinou. Biography Stavros Xenidis was born in Turkey. He studied acting in Karolos Koun Karolos Koun ( el ... * Kostas Strantzalis * Nana Papadopoulou * Eirini Koumarianou * Nana Viopoulou * Takis Mandilas * Kostas Kontonis * Georgios Mitropoulos * Zoi Rouhota * Hristos Katzigiannis * Lina Dadi * L. Simonetos * Haroula Antahopoulou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigoris Grigoriou
Grigoris Grigoriou (1919–2005) was a Greek screenwriter and film director.Karalis p.58 Selected filmography * '' Red Cliff'' (1949) * ''Storm at the Lighthouse'' (1950) * ''Bitter Bread'' (1951) * ''The Big Streets ''The Big Streets'' (Greek: ''Megaloi dromoi'') is a 1953 Greek drama film directed by Grigoris Grigoriou and starring Dinos Dimopoulos, Liana Liapi and Giannis Argyris. It was neorealist in style. Its failure at the box office led Grigoriou to t ...'' (1953) References Bibliography * Vrasidas Karalis. ''A History of Greek Cinema''. A&C Black, 2012. External links * 1919 births 2005 deaths Film people from Athens Greek screenwriters Greek film directors 20th-century screenwriters {{Greece-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinos Dimopoulos
Dinos Dimopoulos ( el, Ντίνος Δημόπουλος; 22 August 1921 – 28 February 2003) was a Greek actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than 40 films between 1953 and 1993. His 1959 film ''Astero'' was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1960 film ''Madalena (film), Madalena'' was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He wrote also some Play (theatre), theatrical plays. He has won the best director award in Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema, Thessaloniki Film Festival for the film ''The Asphalt Fever''. Selected filmography * ''Heaven Is Ours'' (1953) * ''The Big Streets'' (1953) * ''Happy Beginning'' (1954) * ''Astero'' (1959) * ''Stournara 288'' (1959) * ''Madalena (film), Madalena'' (1960) * ''Oi kyries tis avlis'' (1966) * ''The Asphalt Fever'' (1967) * ''A Teacher with Blonde Hair'' (1969) * ''Agapisa mia polythrona'' (1971) References External links * 1921 births 2003 deaths Peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thanasis Papadoukas
Thanasis (Θανάσης) is a Greek given name, short for Athanasios (Αθανάσιος), which can mean "eternal life" or "immortal". Notable people with the name Thanasis or Thanassis include: *Thanasis Antetokounmpo (born 1992), Greek basketball player *Thanasis Giannakopoulos (born 1931), Greek businessman * Thanasis Kanoulas (born 1992), Greek football player *Thanasis Kaproulias (born 1980), audio artist who creates noise music under the name of Novi_sad * Thanassis Lefas, 20th and 21st century motorcycle engineer * Thanasis Kolitsidakis (born 1966), Greek former footballer *Thanasis Lightbridge (born 1978), Greek keyboard player and composer, founder of electronica art metal band Dol Ammad *Thanasis Pafilis (born 1954), Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament *Thanasis Paleologos (born 1977), Greek footballer *Thanasis Papakonstantinou (born 1959), Greek singer-songwriter *Thanasis Papazoglou (born 1988), Greek footballer *Thanasis Sentementes (born 1975), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label= Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent (mimesis) characters. In this broader s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giannis Argyris
Giannis Argyris ( el, Γιάννης Αργύρης; 1918 – 23 July 1993) was a Greek actor. He appeared in a number of films from 1951 to 1992. Filmography References External links * 1918 births 1993 deaths Greek male film actors People from Boeotia {{Greece-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neorealism (art)
In art, neorealism refers to a few movements. In literature Portuguese neorealism was a Marxist literary movement that began slightly before Salazar's reign. It was mostly in line with socialist realism. In painting Neo-realism in painting was established by the ex- Camden Town Group painters Charles Ginner and Harold Gilman at the beginning of World War I. They set out to explore the spirit of their age through the shapes and colours of daily life. Their intentions were proclaimed in Ginner’s manifesto in ''New Age'' (1 January 1914), which was also used as the preface to Gilman and Ginner’s two-man exhibition of that year. It attacked the academic and warned against the ‘decorative’ aspect of imitators of Post-Impressionism. The best examples of neorealist work is that produced by these two artists; Howard Kanovitz and also Robert Bevan. For Robert Bevan he joined Cumberland Market Group in 1914. Artists * Howard Kanovitz - Vernissage, 1967 - Cologne, Museum L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavros Xenidis
Stavros Xenidis ( el, Σταύρος Ξενίδης, 1924 - 2 November 2008) was a Greek actor. He was married to actress Margarita Lambrinou. Biography Stavros Xenidis was born in Turkey. He studied acting in Karolos Koun Karolos Koun ( el, Κάρολος Κουν; September 13, 1908 in Bursa – February 14, 1987 in Athens) was a prominent Greek theater director, widely known for his lively staging of ancient Greek plays. Biography Koun was born in Bursa, Ottoman ...'s ''Theatro Technis'' and made his theatre début in 1944. His theatre career was closely associated with Kostas Moussouris' theatrical company during the 1950s and the 1960s . As a film actor, he took part in more than 70 movies, mostly in secondary roles; his first film role was in ''"The Song of Pain"'' (1953) (Greek title: ''"Το Τραγούδι του Πόνου"'') and his last was in ''"Red White"'' (1993) (''"Άσπρο Κόκκινο"''). He also appeared in several TV shows since 1971; His last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marika Ninou
Marika Ninou ( el, Μαρίκα Νίνου) (1922 – 23 February 1957), was an Armenian-Greek rebetiko singer, born Evangelia Atamian ( el, Ευαγγελία Αταμιάν). Biography She was born in 1922 on the ship "Evangelistria" that brought her mother, her two sisters and her eight-year-old brother, Barkev Atamian, from Smyrna (present day Izmir) to Piraeus. She came out of her mother's belly, and because they thought she would not live, she was taken to a warehouse. However, she survived and immediately the captain of the Evangelistria baptized her, that is how she was named Evangelia (meaning "she of the Gospel, she of the good news" in Greek). In Greece, her family settled in Kokkinia, at 50 Megara Street. At the age of seven, Ninou started attending the Armenian School of Blue Cross of Greece "Zavarian" in Kokkinia. There she learned the mandolin and joined the school orchestra. Meanwhile, because of her voice qualities, she chanted at the Armenian Church of St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Drama Films
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be collectiviz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
