
George Foundas
Oyuncu · 1924 – 2010 · Mavrolithari, Folkida
George Fountas (Greek: Γιώργος Φούντας, Mavrolithari, Fokida, 13 February 1924 – Athens, 28 November 2010) was a Greek actor, one of the most important in cinema, theatre and television, known, among other things, for his role in the film Stella (1955), by Michael Cacoyannis. He participated in many other distinguished films of the 1950s and 1960s, including Magic City (1954), The Girl in Black (1956), Never on Sunday (1960) and The Red Lanterns (1963), while he also appeared in the foreign productions America, America (1963) and Zorbas (1964). His most important moment in television is his role in the series Christ is Crucified Again (1975-1976). George Fountas was born on February 13, 1924, in Mavrolithari, Fokida. In 1944, Fountas appeared in the film Applause by Giorgos Tzavellas, which is considered the most important film made during the Occupation. He then studied acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory, where he studied with Emilio Veakis, Dimitris Rontiris and Kostas Mousouris, while also playing football, as a player for the AEK reserve team. At a young age, he also played (amateur) shot put, discus and boxing. He made his first theatrical appearance in the play Nyfiatiko ngai (Wedding Song) by Notis Pergialis. Gradually, he began to appear more and more in films, such as Aegean Raid (1946) by M. Karagatsis and Dead City (1951) by Frixos Eliades. In 1954, he starred in Nikos Koundouros' first film, Magic City, through which he became more widely known. In 1955, Fountas appeared in Stella, directed by Michalis Cacoyannis. This film contains one of the most emblematic scenes in Greek cinema, during which the line "Go away Stella, I'm holding a knife!" is heard. Stella caused a sensation internationally, especially for the performance of Melina Mercouri, and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival and won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Fountas collaborated with Cacoyannis again shortly afterwards, for The Girl in Black (1956). Between 1960 and 1964, Fountas appeared in many films that received international attention. In 1960, he participated in Jules Dassin's Never on Sunday, again alongside Mercouri. The foreign-language film "Never on Sunday" opened the way for his international career and made him known abroad. In 1963, he appeared in two films that were nominated for the 36th Academy Awards. One was Red Light District (1963), directed by Vasilis Georgiadis, which is considered one of Fundas' most characteristic performances, and the other was America, America by Elia Kazan. In 1964, Fundas collaborated again with Cacoyannis, for the award-winning Zorba the Explorer. Fundas' next major moments were With the Flash in Your Eyes (1966) and Asphalt Fever (1967), directed by Panos Glykofrydis and Dinos Dimopoulos respectively. For his performances in these films, he was awarded Best Actor Awards at the seventh and eighth Thessaloniki Film Festivals. From 1970 onwards, Giorgos Fountas' presence in cinema began to decline. In 1973, he made his first appearance on television, in the series Occupation, which was broadcast on YENED. Two years later, he received a leading role in the series Christ is Recrucified. His last film was Vicky Peziri's dramatized documentary, Tales of the Sea (1997). (Source: Wikipedia)
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Film7.5DramHayata dair beklentisi kalmayan depresif İngiliz yazar Yunan asıllı Basil’e Girit’te bir maden ocağı miras kalır.Hayatına yeniden çekidüzen verme hevesiyle adaya gelen Basil burada anormal davranışları olan, kabasaba ama hayata şehvetle bağlı orta yaşlı bir Yunanlı Alexis Zorba ile tanışır.Alexis Zorba Basil’i tamamen himayesi altına alır.Zorba’nın hayat felsefesi ise yenilgileri umursamamaktır. Zorba'ya göre yenilgiler hayatın kaçınılmaz parçalarıdır ve o yenilgileri sürekli yaşamak edinilen zaferleri önemli kılar. Basil Yunanlıların dünyevi zevklerini keşfettikçe hayata bakış açısı da gittikçe değişmektedir.
Film6.8KomediRomantikAn American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Film7.2DramThe inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
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Film7.0DramΟ μεγάλος ένοχος
1970 · 1 votes
Film6.6DramA dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic forces and their status in life, and love might conquer all.
Film6.2DramA poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in an accident at the construction site, his oldest son undertakes the responsibility of providing for the family, facing all difficulties.
Film6.9RomantikDramThe story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.
Film6.2DramA union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.
Film7.0DramΘα σε περιμένω πάντα
1954 · 2 votes
Film6.6DramRomantikMiranda, the rich and spoiled daughter of an Athenian businessman, accompanies her father to Messolonghi, where they have their own fish farming facilities in the best parts of the lagoon. There, while the local fishermen try to establish a cooperative so they can defend themselves against exploitation by their bosses, Miranda seduces a charming and dynamic young man, disrupting his life and his relationship with the girl he loved and intended to marry.
Film8.0DramPsarogiannos lives with his wife and five children in a seaside village. One day, a sailor appears, seeking revenge and wanting to fight Psarogiannos. Psarogiannos realizes that the sailor is his son from another woman. When the time comes for the confrontation, neither of them can hurt the other. In the end, Psarogiannos' family gains another child.
Film9.0DramΟ άνεμος του μίσους
1954 · 1 votes
Film5.5KomediDramThe everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
Film6.3DramA young emerald miner is in love with a girl but doesn't ask her to marry him because he cannot support her financially.
Film10.0DramRomantikA woman who lives happily with her husband and child discovers that she is suffering from cancer and tries to ensure their happiness after her death, without learning anything about the truth…
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Film10.0DramGraceful Sofia falls in love with Alkis, a charming young writer. They make plans for the future; but, one day, her boss, Memas, enters the picture: a tough guy who owns a cabaret in Trouba, and wants Sofia back.
Film6.3DramRomantikAnna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, where she will spend a year with another aunt. When she returns to Athens, her aunt will try to marry her off to a rich young man, but she is still in love with Stratos.
Film6.7SavaşMaceraA group of resistance fighters during the Occupation, collaborates with a lieutenant who comes to Greece from the headquarters of the Middle East, aiming to blow up a German ship.
Film6.4RomantikDramAgainst the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?
Film6.2SavaşDramIro 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.
Film4.2KomediThomas 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.
Film6.8TarihDramOriginally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.
Serenity
1961 · 5 votes
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Dizi4.7DramA poisonous woman, Eva, approaches George with the intention of destroying him for some evil he had caused in the past. Along the way, she falls in love with him, but he has already discovered the deception she had initially set up for him and in turn tries to take revenge on her. A powerful game of revenge and hatred between the two heroes that in the end turns into a powerful passion and love.