Katerina Helmy

Actress

August 12, 1939 (83 years)

† April 15, 2023

Athens, Greece

Biography

Katerina Helmi (Athens, 12 August 1939 - Kifissia, 15 April 2023) was a Greek actress. She became widely known to the Greek audience through roles in some of the most beloved films of Greek cinema. Her first appearance in cinema was in 1957 in the film Barbagiannis the Pitcher, but her greatest success is The Red Lights. She was also the rival of Aliki Vougiouklaki in the film Our Love. During her career, she has participated in more than 25 films and 4 television series. She has also written se…

Filmography

7.0

The Red Lanterns

Marina Georgiadou

The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.

6.3

Our love

Eva Tsami

An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.

7.0

Η Χαμένη άνοιξη

Γκρέτε Μαρλέν

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5.9

Nomos 4000

Voula

Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ..

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Οικογένεια

Μαρία Στράτου

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7.0

Alexandria

Χριστίνα

Nina, daughter of a Greek woman who left Egypt in 1956, goes for the first time to Alexandria, discovers the city and the longing of her mother to tell her an old love story that she had years ago with a French. but the mother doesn't tell her the truth, who knows why.

4.9

Erotic Stories

Themis' friend

A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.

5.0

Angel

Angelos' Mother

Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover.

7.5

Νατάσα

Tereza

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5.0

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea

Mother

Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.

5.7

Thieves Rejoice Only Once

Anna Moridi

A lawyer goes to Paros to meet his mistress. But trying to get away from her husband, who returns unannounced, he enters the room of a good-hearted girl who tries to help him, thinking he is a thief. When he learns the truth, he gets angry and avoids him, and he sets a trick to bring her near.

9.0

Εις θάνατον

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7.0

Crooked Deeds

Rita

Dimitris, a poor painter who feels deeply disappointed in his life, leaves his wife and begins to wander aimlessly. The woman who raised him after the death of his parents, Mrs. Marigo, must now undergo a difficult operation and Dimitris is forced to submit to the whims of the rich Rita, in order to help his sick nanny. Another failed painter, Alexis, who lives as a gigolo, is also Rita's lover, but Dimitris is unaware of this. Will the silent anti-jealousy end in a stabbing? (greek-movies.com)

6.2

The Enemies

Kitsa

Alekos is a journalist who hunts down all those who live in the dregs of society, until he realizes that the real enemy is corruption, not its victims. Dimitris is a student who fights against social inequality with his own strength. And then there is Stefanos, who has been left disabled by a German bullet and looks at Germans with hatred because he cannot forget.

4.2

Passion Fever

This and The Hot Month of August, both made in Greece, were acquired by DORIS WISHMAN for release in the United States. However, she somehow or other lost the dialogue sheets needed for dubbing the films into English. With the original dialogue a mystery, and not understanding Greek in the first place, the Grand Dame of Sexploitation simply re-invented the entire plot blissfully dubbing it away without any clue as to what was really being said, and then adding some steamy sex scenes with her own anonymous adulterers to liven things up.

6.1

Uncle Giannis, the Potter

Krinio Veneti

Barba Giannis the potter tries to match Krinio with the wealthy Alexandros Harisis. Her mother Margarou and her uncle Platon feel very lucky, but Krinio is in love with Loukas and can no longer bear her mother's pressure.

10.0

L'amore

Anna

Returning to her small town, Anna, the widow of an Italian soldier whom she married during the occupation, revives her old teenage love in the face of a young worker, whom she marries with her stepdaughter, in order to keep him close to her. At the same time, a neighbour tries by all means to take her house to build a hotel.

7.0

Without Identity

Jenny

Giannis (Alekos Alexandrakis) pretends to be the lost son of the Mavroleontos family. The mother (Vaso Metaxa) is happy with the return of her son. Her daughter Liana (Zoe Laskari) is also happy, and Giannis falls in love with her. Liana’s cousin Zanet (Mary Chronopoulou) tries to kill Liana so that she can claim the family fortune, but in the end she injures Giannis.

5.1

Vertigo

Nitsa

A 19-year-old temptress caught in the intoxicating vertigo of passion ends up in prison. Her secret diary tells her side of the story, but unanswered questions arise.

7.0

Mara, the Gypsy

Mara

A wealthy young man falls in love with the Roma girl Mara. Both the young man's family and the girl's family react to the possibility of the two lovers getting together, and conflict is inevitable.