
Gelly Mavropoulou
Actor · 1932 – 2021 · Thessaloniki, Greece
Gelly (Angeliki) Mavropoulou (Thessaloniki, 21 October 1932 – Athens, 19 July 2021) was a Greek actress. She was born in Thessaloniki in 1932. Her parents were also actors Angelos Mavropoulos (1901–1979) and Marika Krevata (1910–1994). She studied at the French Academy of Athens and at the Drama School of the "Art Theater" of Karolos Koun. Geli Mavropoulou first appeared in the cinema in 1953 with the film Papa is Being Trained by Giorgos Lazaridis and was followed by leading roles in more than 40 more films covering all genres of Greek cinema from the period 1950-1980, classic comedies (The Beauty of Athens, by Nikos Tsiforos, 1954; The Aunt from Chicago by Alekos Sakellarios, 1957; Fanouris and His Family by Dimitris Ioannopoulos, 1957; Fortunately I Went Crazy by Kostas Andritsos, 1961; Company of Miracles by Stefanos Stratigos, 1962; The Gentleman's Wife by Yiannis Dalianidis, 1962; The Messer by Grigoris Grigoriou, 1967), melodramas (Red Roses by Kostas Andritsos, 1955; The Little Sprout by Jason Novak, 1955; The Wandering of an Innocent by Kostas Andritsos, 1959; The Road with Red Lights by Kostas Karagiannis, 1963; Every Port and Woe by Homer Efstratiadis, 1964), resistance adventures (The Brave Die Twice by Takis Vougiouklakis, 1973), historical dramas (Ali Pasha and Lady Frosini by Stefanos Stratigos, 1959), frock films (Myrtia by Kostas Karagiannis, 1961), film noir (Crime in Kolonaki by Tzanis Aliferis, 1960; The Kidnapping of Kostas Karagiannis, 1964; Emergency Exit by Nikos Foskolos, 1980), spy thrillers (The Avenue of Betrayal by Christos Kyriakopoulos, 1969), and even films of the new Greek cinema (The Honeymoon by Giorgos Panousopoulos, 1979). Her last film appearance was in the film 17 Bullets for an Angel (1981) by Nikos Foskolos-Takis Vougiouklakis. Her greatest cinematic successes are considered to be the role of Katina, the unmarried girl who must be rehabilitated at all costs in the film Fanouris and His Family (1957) by Dimitris Ioannopoulos, alongside Mimis Fotopoulos, the role of Eva, the cunning and ambitious middle-class woman who directs her husband's career, in the film The Gentleman's Wife (1962) by Yiannis Dalianidis, alongside Dinos Iliopoulos, and the role of Dimitra, the widow of Lieutenant Avgeris, who hires a double to play her husband, in Takis Vougiouklakis' film The Brave Die Twice (1973), alongside Angelos Antonopoulos. It is worth noting that she is the protagonist who launched rock and roll in Greek cinema, along with Theodoros Dimitriev, in the film The Aunt from Chicago (1957). She died on July 19, 2021, at the age of 88. Her body was cremated, and her ashes were interred in the mausoleum of Greek artists at the First Cemetery of Athens. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Movie6.1MysteryCrimeWhen the painter Nasos Karnezis is found dead and the police arrests Floras, the stockbroker Dimitris, his son from his first marriage, decides to find out who the real murderer is. Along with a tow of his friends, reporter Makris and the politician Delios research the case and they suspect Myrto, daughter of captain Kapsis who was executed by the Germans during the years of Occupation, after Karnezis had turned him in. Dimitris and Myrto, whose innocent has become clear in the meantime, fall in love with each other.
Movie6.8ComedyCharilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises his four daughters with... military discipline, taking care of their culture, their appearance and their good behavior. Despite all his desire to marry them, he does not leave them anywhere alone, as a result of which no man approaches them. His wife, Efterpi (Eleni Zafiriou), as well as his friend and neighbor Xenophon (Pantelis Zervos), make remarkable efforts to convince him to change his tactics, but he insists on his very conservative behavior. But when the conversation reaches the well-to-do sister of Kalliopis (Georgia Vassiliadou) who has been living in Chicago, USA for years, everything turns upside down. She returns to Athens and undertakes to modernize the general's house, as well as help the four girls (and her nieces) to be rehabilitated.
Movie9.0DramaΓια την αγάπη μιας ορφανής
1960 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaTaxidi 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.
Movie9.0AdventureDramaΜυρτιά
1961 · 1 votes
Movie4.2ComedyThomas Karatoulpanis (Dinos Iliopoulos) is a naive employee at a car show in the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair. Because of his modest personality he is constantly criticised by his mother-in-law, his uncle and his boss. The only one who supports him is his wife. But the appearance of a doppelganger who buys extravagant gifts in his name causes a ruckus. Thomas is an amateur singer and participates in the Thessaloniki Song Festival winning the first prize. This is when everyone realises that there are two people who look alike.
Movie7.0DramaΚατατρεγμένοι της μοίρας
1964 · 1 votes
Movie7.8ComedyA good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful expatriate brother to finally see their older sister get married. However, is the wealthy sibling willing to help?
Movie4.8DramaRomanceThe forbidden love between legendary Mrs Frosini with the son of Ali Pasa, Mouhtar and her tragic death in the lake of Ioannina.
Movie6.2WarDramaIro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she was arrested for the first time, her rich father managed to set her free, and she fell in love with a young doctor who took care of her injuries following torture. A little before the withdrawal of the Germans, she participated in the blowing up of a train that was transporting ammunition, and she was arrested again, but this time no one could save her. She was executed at the Chaïdari camp, along with forty-nine other prisoners.
Movie6.0DramaComedyA God-fearing young man refuses to sell his, rich in ore, pasture to a mining company. So an agent of this company creates a scam of a so-called miracle in order to convince him.
Movie5.7ComedyIn a countryside village, a veteran politician, Damalas, and a young attorney, Ntinos, son of the village doctor, are rivals in the upcoming elections. Main controller of the political dispute is the all-powerful president of the village, Spyros Dalengos, who affects 900 of the inhabitants. The power acquired by those 900 people is the only dowry of his daughter Marina, who is in love with Ntinos. He has fallen for her to, but his conscience doesn't allow him to accept the unrighteous deal offered by Dalengios, who, after that, decides to support Damalas. However, Marina secretly changes the ballots handed out by her father's men, granting victory to her beloved, who goes straight to ask her to marry him, certain that he won thanks to his own abilities and effort.
Movie5.4ComedyMinas, a conscientious and honest employee, is responsible for procurement at the company where he works. His wife, Eva, is a faithful and obedient spouse who embraces her husband's principles, but she enjoys luxury, furs, and jewelry. One day, her husband's boss approaches her and suggests that she recommend one of his suppliers to Minas, without any compensation. Thus begins a story in which, behind her husband's back, Eva earns money, which she justifies as an inheritance from an uncle. However, when Minas discovers her trick, every trickster sits on his bench.
Movie6.4ComedyA streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inheritance.So he tries to trick a poor devil into getting married with her.
Movie6.0AdventureDramaDuring the German occupation, Mrs. Dimitra, widow of pilot Nikiforos Avgeris, lives with her daughter Natasha and her mother-in-law. One day, she happens to meet Haris, a stuntman who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband, and asks him to play the role of her husband for the sake of her daughter. Haris agrees, and for a while they live together. However, the Germans, believing him to be the real Avgeris, arrest him. He does not reveal his true identity...
Movie6.2ComedyA bunch of women dominates Kostas Filipou's life. His mother Smaro and his three sisters: married Rika - who wants to take a divorce -, religious Fanouria and Tzela the student. The last two have to get married. There are also the women who work at the women's lingerie business that he runs, many of whom see him as a potential husband, as well as Betty, a colleague deeply in love with him, whose mother pressures her to get married. When Kostas secretly marries Betty, who rents with her mother an apartment above theirs, Smaro decides to find both of them a mate. She suggests to Betty the neighborhood's electrician- but Kostas finds a way to break the match- and to Kostas a young woman from Veroia- but Betty manages to break the match. The revelation of the couple's marriage relieves everyone and the fact that Betty is pregnant brings the desired peace and serenity.
Movie9.0DramaΗ πικραγαπημένη
1965 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyTwo friends and roommates, who face a grave financial problem, try every trick in the book to evade their landlady. Everything will change in their lives when they undertake a secret mission pretending to be detectives.
Φτώχεια Έρως και Κομπίνα
1956 · 1 votes
Movie4.8ComedyCharilaos Maraziotis owns a store and owes so much money both to his lenders and to the state, that he is in danger of going to jail. He decides to pretend to be a psychopath and is sent to an asylum. His lenders, upon hearing the news about his mental health, change their attitude towards him and release him from his debts.
Movie5.3ActionAdventure
Movie6.5Crime
Movie7.0DramaRomance
Movie7.0DramaMysteryA prisoner of war who escaped from Albania claims to be a major in the Greek army named Alexandros Vergis, causing great confusion within the army, since Vergis had escaped a year ago and now works for Greek counterintelligence. The shock for Vergis' wife and the niece of the head of counterintelligence, General Gerakaris, is immense. The two men look like two peas in a pod, and the grueling interrogations that follow aim to unravel the mystery and expose the traitor.
Series2
- TV8.0
Mikrografies is ERT lost tvseries
Μικρογραφίες
1986 · 1 votes
- TV8.0Drama
Τα αρραβωνιάσματα
1983 · 1 votes