Vangelis Kazan

Vangelis Kazan

Born: January 1, 1938
Died: March 10, 2008
in Nafplio, Greece
Vangelis Kazan (Greek: Βαγγέλης Καζάν) (1936 – 10 March 2008) was a Greek character actor. Kazan was born in Nafplion. His career in theater, cinema and television spanned for half a century. He repeatedly collaborated with Theo Angelopoulos and was awarded the Best Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1975 for his part in The Travelling Players. He died in Athens.

Movies for Vangelis Kazan...

Παραλάβατε διορισμόν
Title: Παραλάβατε διορισμόν
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Ulysses' Gaze
Title: Ulysses' Gaze
Released: October 12, 1995
Type: Movie
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
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End of an Era
Title: End of an Era
Character: Hristos' Father
Released: October 11, 1994
Type: Movie
In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.
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Title: Ο επισκέπτης της ομίχλης
Released: September 20, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Η Πόλη
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: TV
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Γάμος Στο Περιθώριο
Title: Γάμος Στο Περιθώριο
Character: Aristeidis
Released: October 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Title: At the Campsite
Character: rural constable
Released: May 5, 1989
Type: TV
The series evolves during a laid-back summer at a camping in Peloponesse, Greece. Takis is an entrepreneur who sets up and manages a campsite on a picturesque coast of the Peloponesse. He staffs the campsite with locals, including his cousin Mitsos who is a horse breeder and works as the riding instructor of the campsite. The series details the short-lived relations and interactions between campsite staff and guests, and especially the summer love of Mitsos with Samantha–an English tourist.
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Φάκελος Πολκ στον αέρα
Title: Φάκελος Πολκ στον αέρα
Released: October 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Landscape in the Mist
Title: Landscape in the Mist
Released: September 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly live in Germany.
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Title: Χρόνια πολλά γλυκιά μου
Character: Kathigitis
Released: August 10, 1988
Type: TV
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Τι έχουν να δουν τα μάτια μου
Title: Τι έχουν να δουν τα μάτια μου
Character: Lefteris Dimopoulos
Released: October 3, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Song Of Return
Title: The Song Of Return
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Killer
Title: The Killer
Character: Savvas
Released: October 6, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Man with the Carnation
Title: The Man with the Carnation
Character: Major Georgios Papadopoulos
Released: November 23, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed.
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Οι νταντάδες
Title: Οι νταντάδες
Character: Pavlos
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Iron Gate
Title: The Iron Gate
Character: Antonis
Released: October 7, 1978
Type: Movie
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the most of the adventurism inspired in them by the post-war era and trying to make a life for themselves against the backdrop of the post-dictatorship conservative regime, the two heroes gradually lose their political conciousness and social identity and are led to ruin.
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The Girl with Golden Hair
Title: The Girl with Golden Hair
Released: October 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of many locals to abandon the village for the big city or other countries. He works hard to organize traditional cultural events, such as outdoor performances of the traditional play I Chrissomalloussa, in order to solidify local values and a sense of identity. The teacher is aided by a young woman, a widow who has just returned from Germany and lives with her father-in-law. Kazan walks away with the film, as his sinister desires for his daughter-in-law are inflamed when he sees that she has fallen in love with the teacher. These developments lead him to whip up protests against the play by conservative locals, claiming that the teacher has changed the traditional story by adding elements of propaganda with the potential of causing peasant uprisings. The result is an unexpectedly violent example of social censorship.
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The Hunters
Title: The Hunters
Character: Savvas
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…
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May
Title: May
Released: September 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Other Stage
Title: The Other Stage
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 1975
Type: Movie
Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players (1975).
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The Travelling Players
Title: The Travelling Players
Character: Aegisthus
Released: July 1, 1975
Type: Movie
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra plots revenge on her mother for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes, a young anti-fascist rebel.
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Weak Spot
Title: Weak Spot
Character: (as Vangelis Kasan)
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret agents (Michel Piccoli and Mario Adorf) are bringing the innocent victim to Athens. During their trip, their car breaks down, and they're stopping in a small village. From now on, everybody is fighting against each other, and a psychological cat-and mouse-play is starting...
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Ένας Νομοταγής Πολίτης
Title: Ένας Νομοταγής Πολίτης
Character: Filipos
Released: December 9, 1974
Type: Movie
A young man who grew up beneath the heavy shade of autocratic and avaricious mother, son Gregory, has lost initiative and the minimum footprint. The servility of his mother against his boss, which facilitates the solicitations of the latter to his sister, infuriates him. The fiancée, Soula, can not understand his sexual desires and his girlfriend, Julia, the only one that loves him really forced to abandon him. Gregory wonder with all this and rebels, but his rebellion brings him to the brink of madness. When you finally meet, forced to follow the commands of the mother and uncle ultraconservative so he marries the woman who suggest those.
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The Colors of Iris
Title: The Colors of Iris
Character: Giorgos Koukkoulas
Released: May 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early morning hours. An unknown man suddenly comes into the shot, then walks into the sea holding an umbrella and seizes to exist, before the bewildered eyes of the whole crew. After the police are notified, a confusing array of red tape manoeuvers begins, revealing the close affiliations of the Authorities with the advertising company manager and the whole mechanism of Mass Media, all of which are trying not to investigate the event but to conceal or even exploit it in their own interest. Only the musician involved in that commercial is trying to figure out what really happened.
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Άγουρη Σάρκα
Title: Άγουρη Σάρκα
Character: Papoulas
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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John the Violent
Title: John the Violent
Character: Investigator
Released: September 29, 1973
Type: Movie
The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
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Metamorphoses
Title: Metamorphoses
Released: September 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Three girls try to enjoy to the fullest their carefree lives in Athens. However, they get mixed up in situations whose full seriousness they do not grasp.
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Get on Your Mark
Title: Get on Your Mark
Character: Andreas Dimopoulos
Released: September 26, 1973
Type: Movie
In Filiatra, a half deserted township of Messinia, the remaining farmers face a constant struggle to pay off their debts to the Agricultural Bank.
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Δαίμονες της βίας και του σεξ
Title: Δαίμονες της βίας και του σεξ
Character: Masia
Released: September 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Jason just arrived from Johanesburg and visits a deserted beach house, which belongs to his best friend Mihalis. There he finds Mihalis's wife, Mary, with her sister Magda and a weird fisherman named Kosmas, that stays with them, but seems to somehow, bullying them. He decides to stay with them waiting for his friend to arrive and find him there, but also because he falls in love with Magda. While Jason is having good time with his mistress, things get complicated when he discovers that the fisherman is not what he says he is and at the same time two suspiciously looking characters appear and are stalking the young couple's, every move..
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Kolasmenes Psyches sta Dichtya tis Idonis
Title: Kolasmenes Psyches sta Dichtya tis Idonis
Character: police inspector
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Tony Kouroglou responds to a job ad for working in a sea-side hotel. Hitchhiking his way to the hotel, he finds himself trapped in a murder case. He hastily disposes of the body and starts his new job. When he finds out that the people that framed him stay at the hotel, he becomes determined to expose them in order to keep himself out of jail.
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Days of '36
Title: Days of '36
Released: September 30, 1972
Type: Movie
The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing in the government into disarray.
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Hippocrates And Democracy
Title: Hippocrates And Democracy
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: Movie
The father of medical in Kos, Hippocrates, believes that illnesses can be treated with medicines and herbs instead of prayers and comes into conflict with the medical establishment of the island. Leaving Kos, he goes to Athens, where he is called to face a plague for save the city.
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Lysistrata
Title: Lysistrata
Character: "Pregnant" Spartan "Woman"
Released: September 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.
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Στον ίλιγγο της αμαρτίας
Title: Στον ίλιγγο της αμαρτίας
Released: August 22, 1972
Type: Movie
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Ένας Υπέροχος Άνθρωπος
Title: Ένας Υπέροχος Άνθρωπος
Released: November 11, 1971
Type: Movie
In the courthouse, the new lawyer, Nikos Moushouttis, represents the industrialist Orestis Valsamis, accused by the assailant Dimitris Konstantinou, for slanderous defamation. even though he does not have the required evidence, conjures up the young lawyer. Following the condemnation of Constantine, he undertakes to defend him in the Court of Appeal and manages to capture Bolsam in the face of his own. He then leaves the law and is ranked as a lieutenant in the gendarmerie. From this position, he treats the microbes graciously, Nikos continues the fight from the position of the leader of a resistance group. Liberation finds him the commander of the gendarmerie of Thessaloniki. He has always faced the scapegoats with humility. His last desires, as an exemplary officer, concerned the fulfillment of certain obligations to his fellow human beings
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Conflict of Emotions
Title: Conflict of Emotions
Character: Loukas
Released: September 13, 1971
Type: Movie
A drug addict meets an aristocratic woman who married a criminal.
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Provocation
Title: Provocation
Character: Police officer
Released: February 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disappointment, so all the money he buys a ticket to Australia. But while the young man is waiting for departure in his life to happen a new love experience. A chance meeting with Isabella on the ship that was carrying him to Athens, would be for Angelos another test, would lead to a meeting with the past and will be the key to unlocking the old crime.
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Η ανταρσία των 10
Title: Η ανταρσία των 10
Released: September 26, 1970
Type: Movie
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Η σκλάβα
Title: Η σκλάβα
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Όσο υπάρχει έρωτας
Title: Όσο υπάρχει έρωτας
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Slum, my love
Title: Slum, my love
Character: actor
Released: February 25, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
Title: The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the destruction of Smyrni. From an old man learns that his father did not die but was arrested by the Turks. He decides to follow the scientific mission of Professor John Anderson in Turkey, to find traces of his father.
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The Cannon and the Nightingale
Title: The Cannon and the Nightingale
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: Movie
A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2
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Girls in the Sun
Title: Girls in the Sun
Character: Receptionist
Released: September 12, 1968
Type: Movie
A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece.
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Humbled And Dejected
Title: Humbled And Dejected
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Manousos is the biggest child of a poor and crowded family living in the province. After finishing his term, he decides to work in Athens to help his mother. His friends and acquaintances are detestable, but he will find work as a singer in a nightclub. Soon she knows success and marries Eleni. But her brother wants to spoil their happiness.
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A Thief with Philotimo
Title: A Thief with Philotimo
Character: Vagios
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Reluctantly, an otherwise honest paterfamilias accepts his shady friend's proposition to start a career in crime. Now, his daughter is in love with the son of a wealthy target. Will the kind robber renounce his former self for her sake?
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The Drunk of the Harbor
Title: The Drunk of the Harbor
Released: May 26, 1967
Type: Movie
A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers the current owner of the villa that used to belong to him.
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Trouba '67
Title: Trouba '67
Character: Papadopoulos
Released: February 13, 1967
Type: Movie
A 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.
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Unfair curse
Title: Unfair curse
Released: February 2, 1967
Type: Movie
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He And She
Title: He And She
Released: January 30, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Greedy
Title: The Greedy
Character: Kimon
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father from the obligation to recruit staff. Life Christos changing for the better and all you want to complete the happiness is to marry the daughter of his boss.
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Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες
Title: Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες
Released: December 3, 1966
Type: Movie
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Jenny Jenny
Title: Jenny Jenny
Character: Kassandris' assistant
Released: February 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to visit the private library of - her father's political rival - the shipowner Miltos Kassandris. Kassandris prepares his nephew - and a childhood friend of Jenny - Nikos Mantas, as a candidate for the next election. Mantas' rival has a lead, and is backed by Skoutaris, who is facing financial problems. So Kassandris decides to force Jenny to marry his nephew with a fake marriage, while at the same time financially breaks down her father in order to secure the election of his nephew. This marriage, however, will lead to unexpected situations between the couple..
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Artesta
Title: Artesta
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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The fate of the innocent
Title: The fate of the innocent
Released: September 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Thief
Title: The Thief
Character: Savvas
Released: September 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Short film about a pickpocket. A police officer catches a pickpocket after some illegal activity on a bus, but is willing to hear what led him to the crime.
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Make Me A Woman
Title: Make Me A Woman
Released: July 31, 1965
Type: Movie
A proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds out that her daughter is in love with him, she marries her off to his friend, and now, the knives have the final say. Can reason prevail?
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The Woman Driver
Title: The Woman Driver
Released: November 7, 1964
Type: Movie
Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, borrows their new car. When Lilly crashes the car, she asks Mary to cover for her so that her husband doesn’t find about her new affair. The case of the car crash is brought to court, and Mary is accused. Things get so complicated that not even Lilly’s confession can solve the misunderstanding.
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The Wheel
Title: The Wheel
Released: August 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The adventures of a car tire in the Attica region, in Greece. The tire was unexpectedly released from the car and started wandering independently in various places
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Persecution
Title: Persecution
Released: June 9, 1964
Type: Movie
We are in 1942, in the middle of the German Occupation, on an island opposite the coast of Asia Minor, where a mature woman, Katerina Rodeli, cares for a wounded resistance fighter named Kanaris. In her memory, there are images of the past, the panic of the Asia Minor catastrophe and especially the entrance of the tsets in her village. There she lost her three-year-old son, Konstantin, whom he never ceased to look for. However, the village's mackerel maharagrite handed it over to the Germans and, in the face of the danger, they were arrested along with the wounded and a boat ride on the Turkish coast to find themselves immediately enclosed in a refugee camp. His commander is a tough second lieutenant, Osen, who is bought by the English consulate of Izmir to transfer the fugitives to Egypt.
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Treason
Title: Treason
Character: Police detective
Released: June 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Karl von Stein (Petros Fyssoun) is serving in Greece as an enlightenment officer for the German occupation troops, and lives in the house of Professor Victor Kastriotis (Manos Katrakis) seized by the Germans. There he meets Lisa (Elli Fotiou), a young girl who appears as the professor’s niece, when in fact she is of Jewish descent. The two youths fall in love and are preparing to get married when Karl learns the truth... The film represented Greece at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Prize of the Soviet Peace Committee at the Moscow International Film Festival that same year.
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Uphill
Title: Uphill
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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The Lake of Sighs
Title: The Lake of Sighs
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governed by the fierce and vulgar Ali Pasas. Ali’s eldest son, Muchtar, falls in love with a young Greek widow, Frosyni. The problem is, he’s married to the vindictive and cruel Chanife. And the muslim penalty for having an affair with a married man is death…