Dora Volanaki

Actress

January 1, 1915 (83 years)

† May 12, 1998

Athens, Greece

Biography

Dora Volanaki was born in 1915 in Athens and studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre as well as at the French Academy and the British Institute. She also translated aesthetic essays (My Life in Art, Stanislavski) and plays. She adapted plays for the radio. She made her debut in the theatre in 1933 and in 1935 became a member of the Greek Theatre Association. From 1943 until the end of the Occupation, she was a key figure in the State Theatre of Thessaloniki. Later, for several years,…

Filmography

7.2

Monday's Theater

Κα Μπόιλ

Greek television series

7.4

Ulysses' Gaze

Old Woman

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

7.0

The Beekeeper

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.

7.0

Manto Mavrogenous

Ζαχαράτη Χατζή Μπάτη

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7.0

Voyage to Cythera

Katerina

An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.

8.0

Οι απόμαχοι

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4.7

Honeymoon

Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in the ocean, naked, as he and Zaharoula are out walking on the beach. Taken up in the spirit of the moment, she joins him among the waves. The results, however, are not what they expected.

5.0

Varieté

An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.

6.7

120 Decibels

After having an accident Nassos is brought into a hospital where he lies in coma without regaining his consciousness. All his friends visit him and each of them remembers the most important moments of their friendships.

7.0

Erotic Moments

An erotic film that is imbued with many influences from Italian realist cinema, and now and then it adopts a Jean-Luc Godard-like style.

N/A

Χατζημανουήλ

Νενέ Αγγερού

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8.5

Silent Rebellion

Irene

A Greek immigrant (Savalas) and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother and re-discover their heritage and each other. Cross-cultural misunderstandings abound.

6.0

Treason

A Nazi officer arrives in occupied Athens in 1941 and falls in love with a Jewish girl, unaware of her true identity.

6.2

A Foolish Love

Haris' Mother

The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother...

8.3

Two Turkish Eggs

Grandmother

Giannis is a subversive young man who rebels against any social institution or authority. Unemployed by conviction, he cohabits with his German friend Ilze, who supports him, helps his arrogant uncle , a fallen aristocrat, with his drug smuggling, and becomes friends with a Pontian Turk, Mustapha. The latter has entered Greece illegally and follows Giannis to Athens, hoping to find his Greek grandmother, who is none other than Giannis' grandmother as well. Mustapha steals the hearty of Ilze, whom he entertains with tales of his exploits, but the uncle turns them over to the police, and so they are truly in a tight squeeze. They get out of doing time, despite it all, and leave for Turkey, but they stray into Albania, where they are arrested and sentenced to manual labor.

8.0

The Death of Alexandros

Alexander is a young man who dies of leukemia at the age of twenty-six. At the hospital, his mother, his wife, and his friends stand by his side. Trying to react to the grim idea of his impending death, he asks his wife to make love to him. His memories take him back to his early adolescence and his first sexual encounter in a brothel.

N/A

Σας ζητούν στο τηλέφωνο

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6.5

Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως

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N/A

The Olives

Narrator

short film that was shown at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in 1964

8.0

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Emi

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