Thanasis Papathanasiou

Writer

Orestiada, Thrace, Greece

Biography

Thanasis Papathanasiou was born in 1959 in Orestiada. He studied Political Sciences at Panteion University (but without graduating) and at the Lykourgos Stavrakos Film and Television School. Before taking up writing, he wanted to be a sportswriter. Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanasiou are a contemporary writing duo who have been involved in writing (as well as directing) plays, as well as television series, films, and musical theater performances. They became widely known with the now famo…

Filmography

7.7

Oi Treis Harites

The Haritou family's ancestral home was initially inhabited only by the unmarried youngest daughter, Irini. However, in the first episode of the series, her older and widowed sister, Olga, moves into the same house until the construction of the new house she is building is completed. Although initially they thought that her move would be temporary, it eventually became permanent for the entire series. At the same time, the middle daughter, Maria, decides to move into her ancestral home and stay with her sisters, because she caught her husband, Yannis, red-handed with her best friend.

6.5

Safe Sex

A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.

6.0

Mary Mary Mary

Mary is a good wife, mother and… lover. Mary is a proper housewife, with a mother-in-law… malama. Mary is nice and plays it fatally. Three women, three different lives. The only thing they have in common is their name: Mary. Vaso Laskaraki, Katerina Zarifi and Niki Lami play the three heroines in the new comedy series.

5.4

Strictly Non-Graphic

Two young Greek filmmakers in need of funding for their film titled "The End of Passion" end up seeking the financial aid of an almost forgotten old-time porn-king producer. He agrees to help them while concealing his own secret plan.

7.2

To Dis Examartein

The series takes place in a TV station, where two men (the station's best reporters) want the same woman. This woman happens to be married to one of them, but that doesn't matter much since she wants both of them too...

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The Curse of Tzela Delafraga

Sworn enemies, vendettas, wealthy businessmen, barons, love affairs, intrigues, blackmails, kidnappings and all kinds of upheavals will happen in Upper and Lower Paparia!

5.3

Blackmail Boy

In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind that lie well-hidden in the mists of the nearby lake. An intense plot and a totally unexpected ending make up this film, which features characters who are vulnerable, innocent and ordinary, but who become ruthless and callous, worrying only about protecting their financial resources. The offences are disproportionately serious compared to the financial benefits they try to secure

6.8

Crying... Silicon Tears

This is the story of two Greek families, named Delafrangas and Bisbikides. The former family is very wealthy & lucky, the latter very poor and continually struck by fate. Poor but honest Martha is in love with Giakoumis, a young builder and bouzouki organist, but all her dreams fall apart when posh Tzela "steals" the love of her beloved one... A couple of flash backs, following their families roots back to WW2 and the Turkish domination, and a hidden secret will unfold the story's ending..

6.1

Snow Cookies

In a beautiful mountain village, a peculiar confectioner, Mr. Panagiotis is forced due to circumstances to hide little Fani from everyone in his house. Quickly, his two grandchildren and a friend of theirs discover the hidden Fani and thus the gang of five is formed. The four children and Mr. Panagiotis live a wonderful adventure between reality and fairy tale. But first they have to fool everyone, the daughter of Mr. Panagiotis, the village doctor and all the residents of the small society. Their obstacles are endless and after going through a thousand and two twists and trials, they will be revealed and they will have to face the consequences of their actions. Will everyone live happily ever after?

7.0

Kalokairines ataxies

Yannis is staying alone at home for a while because his wife is going on a short vacation, and he lives a dull and monotonous life as a bachelor. But his bachelor life is disrupted by his new upstairs neighbor, a beautiful young woman named Katerina. Katerina has recently separated from her husband and is inconsolable. Yannis undertakes to comfort her, in a purely friendly manner at first. However, such friendships with attractive neighbors can be quite dangerous...

N/A

Unplug the Minister in the Socket

At a critical political juncture in England, the minister and deputy prime minister, Alex Charles, is injured, in a coma, on a life support machine in his home. His bourgeois wife, her lover, his friend and also a government minister, the minister's colonel mistress, and even his political opponent, have interests in keeping him alive. The entanglement and grandiose plans for power are the best stimulant in a story of incredible misunderstandings and reversals. The minister's daughter, the Indian butler, and even the air conditioning technician, are involved in the threads of a tragicomic situation that borders on parody. The entire government of the state rests on a power socket...The play was staged at the then new venue "PIRAEUS 131" in 1998 and was played for 3 seasons "Unplug the Minister (1998)". The television show is from the 3rd season. It was re-aired on Star on Sunday, August 5, 2001 & Saturday, March 22, 2003

1.0

Dyo fores pseftis

A petty thief breaks into the mansion of a wealthy industrialist, hoping to make off with something valuable. Instead, the inhabitants welcome him with open arms, believing him to be the magnate's son. Can anyone set the record straight?

N/A

Put the Minister in the Socket

The crazy farce about entanglement and dark political backroom dealings "PUT THE MINISTER IN THE SOCKET." However, the very variation on the title also expresses the spirit of this new comedy. Around the machine that keeps the prime minister of the country dead and alive unfolds a farce of dealings and entanglements with only one goal: To change nothing. The political backstage strikes, always for its own benefit, all kinds of scenarios aimed at not changing anything in the country. A comedy about a world that makes sure - in a sometimes criminal way - to keep up the pretense and do nothing at a time when finally some people have to plug in to do something.

N/A

Men Ready for Anything

In a provincial town, a group of men, beset by numerous financial problems, decide to solve them in an original way. Desperation leads a café owner, a taxi driver, a municipal employee, a baker, and a student to become strippers! Their paradoxical choice to earn money by dancing naked disrupts their lives, the small town where they live, and their wives...

N/A

Which Eleni?

In 2004 the duo of Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanassiou presents at the National Theater a show that will cut many tickets and will be repeated next year. It is entitled "Which Eleni?".

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Τρίποντα στο παρθεναγωγείο

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1.0

Δυο κορίτσια στο κρεβάτι μου

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