Iro Kyriakaki
Actor · b. 1932 · Poros Trizinias, Greece
Iro Kyriakaki (Greek: Ηρώ Κυριακάκη, Poros, Troizinia, 1932) is a Greek actress, who became known to the wider public for her performance in the role of Katerina in the film The Red Lanterns (1963) by Alekos Galanos alongside actor Notis Pergialis. She studied directing and theater at the school of Karolos Koun. She played with Koun in the play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov and in Last Autumn by Alexis Damianos. In cinema, she had important participations such as in Red Lanterns (1963), but also in The Children of the Swallow (1987). She married the groundbreaking filmmaker Stavros Torne. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Movie6.0DramaA journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that began with the Civil War. The two men’s search is interrupted when a key person refuses to speak
Movie7.1DramaThe inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
Movie4.7Drama18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a thick iron door, two in each bed. Meals and work is carried out in other sections of the building, separated by iron bars. A young doctor shall investigate the newcomer. When they meet, they immediately recognize each other. It is Giorgos, the doctor that treated Stefania's mother a couple of years ago, and then had a little flirt with Stefania. He has been thinking of her ever since. He immediately falls in love with her, and wants to help her. Stefania is thinking about any possibility to get out from the prison. She flirts with the ugly yard guard Armandos, and with the truck driver coming with foodstuff, but in vain...
Movie6.9DramaHistoryDuring its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in Western art.
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Movie6.0RomanceWe are in Athens, in August, when the residents are away on vacation. An eccentric music teacher wanders and daydreams in the streets of the half-empty city. In the winds of Plaka, he meets Anna, a strange girl lost in her fantasies, who is always waiting for her beloved to return and take her away, as he promised her exactly one year ago when they met. The two heroes try to get closer to each other, with successive dialogues and monologues that border on the absurd.
Movie7.8ComedyPolydoros Lagos is a janitor in an ordinary Athens' block in the 1960s who's struggling to serve as many of the building's residents as possible in order to save some money to help his six sisters (and his aunt) get married, since this is the only way he can finally get married too.