Giovanna
Actor · b. 1938 · Amaliada, Ileia, Greece
Ioanna Fassou - Kalpaxi (Greek: Ιωάννα Φάσσου - Καλπαξή, born 14 November 1938 in Amaliada), known by her stage name Giovanna (Greek: Γιοβάννα), is a Greek singer. She is active in singing, prose and poetry. Her works have been adapted for television, theatre and cinema. She was the first singer to appear on experimental Greek television (1966) and the third artist of Greek origin to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest (Tzimis Makoulis, first (for Austria), Nana Mouskouri, second (for Luxembourg)), representing Switzerland in 1965. She is an actress, known for The Lovers of the Middle Wall (1967), Poverty (1965) and The Greek Woman and Love (1962).
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Movie5.0ComedyRomanceRevolving around the modern Greek woman and her perspective on love in general, not one, but twenty-one brief and vivid vignettes attempt to shed light on an ever-present matter: can there be consequences in Cupid's eternal game?
Movie7.0DramaRomanceKaiti's father decides to end Nikos' family and evicts them. Nikos and his mother rent a room in Anna's family's house. Together with Giovanna's band, in which he is a pianist, he will find himself in Thessaloniki where they have gone for various performances with his beloved, Lisa. Lisa will receive a message and will return hurriedly to Athens. There she will have an accident, will become disabled and will decide to disappear from Nikos' life. Upon returning, Nikos tries in vain to find her...