Mihalis Giannatos

Mihalis Giannatos

Born: July 11, 1941
Died: September 17, 2013
in Constantinople, Turkey
Michalis Giannatos (Greek: Μιχάλης Γιαννάτος; 11 July 1941 – 17 September 2013), alternatively spelled as Michael Yannatos, was a Greek actοr.

Ηe was born in (Istanbul), Turkey. He left the city for Greece in 1964 during the long expulsion of Istanbul Greeks.

He studied in Konstantinos Demopoulos' school of drama and first appeared as a professional actor in Georgios Zervoulakos' film Oi stigmatismenoi (Greek: Οι στιγματισμένοι) in 1966. When still a student, he participated in the theatrical play Capetan Michalis (Greek: Καπετάν Μιχάλης) next to Manos Katrakis.

During his long cinematic career, he appeared in close to 100 films, television series and plays. He was a regular in Theodoros Angelopoulos films since he was one of the director's favorite actors. After Megalexandros (Greek: Μεγαλέξανδρος) in 1981, Angelopoulos was always calling him to play in his movies.

He was fluent in five languages; Greek, Turkish, French, Italian and Spanish. Due to that, he appeared in many international productions, including Midnight Express, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Munich and more.

Movies for Mihalis Giannatos...

Το όνειρο του Ίκαρου
Title: Το όνειρο του Ίκαρου
Released: November 26, 2014
Type: Movie
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Title: The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Character: Manos
Released: November 27, 2008
Type: Movie
Elias of the 16th Precinct follows three friends – Elias, Thomas and Vangelis – who face considerable financial hurdles with their debts rivalling the size of Everest. They decide the only solution is to snatch money from Vangelis’ boss, Labros ; a cafeteria owner, pawnbroker and fence. While Thomas will attempt the breaking and entering, Elias will be disguised as a police officer – for security reasons, of course. Hilarity ensues as this comedy of errors sends their plan spiralling off in a totally different direction.
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Title: Mia stigmi 2 zoes
Character: Ανέστης Συκάς
Released: December 30, 2007
Type: TV
Petros and Orestis are twin brothers. Orestis was put up for adoption when he was just a baby and was raised by rich parents. One day, Petros witnesses an accident which involves Orestis. Realizing they are identical and taking advantage of the fact that Orestis suffers from amnesia, Petros steals Orestis's life.
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My Family and Other Animals
Title: My Family and Other Animals
Character: Porter / Waiter
Released: December 27, 2005
Type: Movie
An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.
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Munich
Title: Munich
Character: Hotel Aristides Porter
Released: December 23, 2005
Type: Movie
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Opa!
Title: Opa!
Character: Hector
Released: November 13, 2005
Type: Movie
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
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Hotel Αστέρια
Title: Hotel Αστέρια
Character: Γιώργος
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Αρχιπέλαγος
Released: September 28, 2004
Type: TV
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The Weeping Meadow
Title: The Weeping Meadow
Character: Zisis
Released: February 20, 2004
Type: Movie
The first part of an incomplete trilogy telling the story of the greek people. The film begins in 1919, with Greek immigrants from Odessa arriving near Thessaloniki. Led by the charismatic Spyros, they establish a new settlement in the delta of a river. The youngest of the settlers are Spyros' son Alexis and an orphan from Odessa, Eleni. A strong, almost incestuous affection develops between the teenagers, resulting in twins who are given to a foster family. Also standing in the way of love is Spyros, determined to take his foster daughter as his wife. The lovers then decide to flee the village, persecuted by their father, leading a life of exile. As Alexis joins a group of musicians planning to go to the United States, Eleni regains custody of the twins. Angelopoulos, as in previous films, looks at the sacrifice of civilians confronted by the workers' demonstrations of 1935, the rule of Metaxas' fascist junta and forced emigration to America, and finally the civil war of 1944-1949.
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To the Inn
Title: To the Inn
Released: November 26, 2003
Type: Movie
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A Touch of Spice
Title: A Touch of Spice
Character: Grandpa's friend
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. 35 years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather and his first love. He travels back only to realize that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life.
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Skipper Straad
Title: Skipper Straad
Released: September 14, 2003
Type: Movie
A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.
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Kata lathos astynomikos
Title: Kata lathos astynomikos
Released: May 23, 2002
Type: Movie
The classic comedy, Alekos Sakellarios, Christos Giannakopoulos, "Ilias the 16th", which was performed in the summer of 2002 at the theater "Minoa" entitled "Markos ... Elias of the 16th". During a robbery, the little sculptor Elias makes the tsiliador disguised as a policeman. But then he is forced, once in a while, to investigate a robbery himself ...
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The Bubble
Title: The Bubble
Character: Uncle
Released: January 2, 2002
Type: Movie
Makis , a man with difficulties in the stock market, falls for Roula , who is the mistress of a big tycoon , which Makis has invested in. Makis becomes witness to an assassination gone wrong. The police are after him thinking he is the shooter but the real assassin is after Makis to recruit him to his terrorist beliefs. The only comfort Makis can find is Roula who follows him on his deadly adventure.
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Αλέξανδρος και Αϊσέ
Title: Αλέξανδρος και Αϊσέ
Released: November 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A Christian boy and a Muslim girl fall in a forbidden love in the town of Komotini. They decide to escape together, but the Turkish consul has another opinion.
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Anna's Summer
Title: Anna's Summer
Character: Seller in the photo shop
Released: August 30, 2001
Type: Movie
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Title: Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Character: Kokolios
Released: April 18, 2001
Type: Movie
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
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The Flower of the Lake
Title: The Flower of the Lake
Character: Hasan
Released: November 14, 1999
Type: Movie
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America
Title: America
Character: Coffee Shop Owner
Released: September 23, 1999
Type: Movie
A man sees a poster of an old movie that he claims to have acted in
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Eternity and a Day
Title: Eternity and a Day
Character: Ticket Inspector
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
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The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha
Title: The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha
Character: General
Released: March 8, 1996
Type: Movie
On 29 January 1993 eighty prisoners escaped from an Athens prison. Well, in actual fact one convict escaped, a guy named Vassilis, for his beloved in Amalliada, but in his hurry he forgot the prison door open and little by little another seventy-nine got out... The film follows the eleven who made it down to the Peloponnese... with them an old musician who has a map he bought from a Greek in America for $2500 with the lost treasure of General Hursit Pasha.
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Orpheus Descending
Title: Orpheus Descending
Released: January 26, 1996
Type: Movie
Eurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and Eurydice gets convinced by a rich farmer to follow him to Athens, where he promises her that he will make her a famous singer. Things do not turn out as promised, and Eurydice returns to the band, which is very successful now, due to Orpheus, a mute clarinet player, who has joined them. The farmer comes to reclaim her by force and Eurydice gets killed in a car accident. Orpheus tries to give her life with his clarinet.
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Ulysses' Gaze
Title: Ulysses' Gaze
Character: Albanian Film Library Manager (uncredited)
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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Someone Else's America
Title: Someone Else's America
Character: Grčki agent
Released: September 9, 1995
Type: Movie
This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
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Τράνζιτο
Title: Τράνζιτο
Released: March 1, 1995
Type: Movie
An extreme passion that overturns the balance and changes the life course of a woman. Anna is a successful journalist with impeccable image and perfectly organized life. However, it has reached a borderline where nothing fills it anymore. One night, during a reportage, he will accidentally encounter a strange, mysterious and dangerous stranger, who goes through transit from Greece. Between them a relationship will be exciting, but also nightmarish ...
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The Suspended Step of the Stork
Title: The Suspended Step of the Stork
Character: Shopkeeper
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
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Filming Under Pressure
Title: Filming Under Pressure
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.
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The Serpent of Death
Title: The Serpent of Death
Character: Greek Policeman
Released: December 6, 1990
Type: Movie
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
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Η εκδίκηση του Πατέρα
Title: Η εκδίκηση του Πατέρα
Character: Moustafa, the turkish drug dealer
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Οι Αυθαίρετοι
Character: Κοράκι
Released: November 22, 1989
Type: TV
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Deputy police officer named Thanasis
Title: Deputy police officer named Thanasis
Released: January 6, 1989
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: Η Μανιάτισσα
Released: September 29, 1987
Type: TV
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The Beekeeper
Title: The Beekeeper
Released: August 21, 1987
Type: Movie
Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.
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Pretty Smart
Title: Pretty Smart
Character: The Turk
Released: March 13, 1987
Type: Movie
In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean. She vents her anger by rebelling against the cruel and sicko headmaster. When she discovers that he has been secretly photographing them naked and profiting from the pictures, she rallies the other girls and gets revenge.
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Χαμός στο Αιγάλεω σίτυ
Title: Χαμός στο Αιγάλεω σίτυ
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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Ο εφιάλτης
Title: Ο εφιάλτης
Character: Στέλιος Παπαϊωάννου
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Wind
Title: The Wind
Character: Policeman
Released: November 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.
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Ένας Τρελός... Τρελός Ονειροπαρμένος
Title: Ένας Τρελός... Τρελός Ονειροπαρμένος
Character: Φώτης
Released: June 11, 1986
Type: Movie
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Bordello
Title: Bordello
Released: October 17, 1985
Type: Movie
Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored in the port of Chania in protecting Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Rosa Bonaparte, accompanied by twelve girls off at a deserted beach with all the equipment of a Marseille brothel. Installed in a wing of a huge, ruined former Town Hall, where the officers of the allied fleet meet and entertain in the evenings surrounded by undercover agents, military connectors, and speculators : an East-West mosaic of languages, costumes and intrigue ...
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The Next One
Title: The Next One
Character: Captain
Released: September 15, 1984
Type: Movie
An astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island.
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Voyage to Cythera
Title: Voyage to Cythera
Character: police officer
Released: April 21, 1984
Type: Movie
An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.
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Title: Η κυρία Ντορεμί
Released: October 16, 1983
Type: TV
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Misunderstanding
Title: Misunderstanding
Released: June 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos."
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Προσοχή, κίνδυνος!
Title: Προσοχή, κίνδυνος!
Released: February 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Kamikazi, agapi mou
Title: Kamikazi, agapi mou
Character: Fotiou
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Stathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music. They are three crazy siblings. One of them, Stathis, doesn't seem capable to keep a job and when he loses his girlfriend, his mother decides to give him what he loves the most, a motorcycle!
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Το αίμα των αγαλμάτων
Title: Το αίμα των αγαλμάτων
Released: October 7, 1982
Type: Movie
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Ταξίδι στην Πρωτεύουσα
Title: Ταξίδι στην Πρωτεύουσα
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
Title: Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
Character: Tamtikos
Released: December 8, 1980
Type: Movie
A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to deal with them.
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Alexander the Great
Title: Alexander the Great
Character: Dragoumanos
Released: September 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.
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Taste from Greece
Title: Taste from Greece
Character: Vangelis
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
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Τα Παιδιά της Πιάτσας
Title: Τα Παιδιά της Πιάτσας
Character: baker
Released: June 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the guys and jobber of Piraeus, and the strict surveillance of the police, who closed the once in prison. He will try to sell the alleged Byzantine icons that makes a fellow prisoner, but will be arrested. It will be released as there were images of value, and will be informed that the mother of the same (Mary Metaxa) alerted the police to remove him from the unlawful activity.
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The Wicked World of Thanasis
Title: The Wicked World of Thanasis
Released: March 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Seven short stories of everyday madness starring Thanasis Vengos.
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A Walk in the Sun
Title: A Walk in the Sun
Character: Waiter
Released: December 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
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Midnight Express
Title: Midnight Express
Character: Court Translator
Released: August 31, 1978
Type: Movie
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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1922
Title: 1922
Released: April 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.
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Thanasis in the land of the cuff
Title: Thanasis in the land of the cuff
Released: July 25, 1976
Type: Movie
The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One, the Metaxas regime is depicted as a circus, where Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is a clown trying to conceal a young colleague’s subversive action. In Part Two, we see Thanasis suffer because of his honesty and kindness, in a country where the system’s irrationality is clearly evident.
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Μπουζάνκα αλά... ελληνικά
Title: Μπουζάνκα αλά... ελληνικά
Character: Panagos
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A Naive man from the countryside, affected by the famous Italian cine star Lado Bouzanka and his ladiesman ways, travels to Athens in order to act in a similar way with women, after having sold all his land and ready to spend a lot. He stays with his cousin, a crazy deluded artist and his sexy models. His many attempts with every single girl he meets, are being interrupted by several incidents.
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The Charlatan
Title: The Charlatan
Character: Patroklos
Released: December 24, 1973
Type: Movie
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Dictator calls Thanasis
Title: Dictator calls Thanasis
Released: November 12, 1973
Type: Movie
The adventures of a photographer, who undertook to take a photographs of exiled dictator from South America and eventually found chased without knowing why.
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The Warriors of Peace
Title: The Warriors of Peace
Released: June 17, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Man Who Ran a Lot
Title: The Man Who Ran a Lot
Character: Lefteris Zevedaios
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Thanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time and the clocks have become obsessed after running nonstop in an effort to nourish their relatives. The 'philosopher' brother dies and leaves another four mouths under his protection. The day is divided between the shop, his sister and his niece to marry, and his beloved, who works in a supermarket, while the economic situation and their obligations do not allow them to marry.
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Carefree... Nut
Title: Carefree... Nut
Released: November 22, 1971
Type: Movie
In this color comedy Thanasis trying for years to leave illegally for America to make his life because due to financial can not pay fares, but always something was wrong and left behind. His friend, Nikiforos, advises him to stay in Greece, to work and to look to find the namesake of Thanasis, who helps around the world.
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
Title: What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
Character: italian officer
Released: September 23, 1971
Type: Movie
A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.
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The Lady and the Tramp
Title: The Lady and the Tramp
Released: December 30, 1968
Type: Movie
Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises herself as a boy named Pipis. As such, she meets a poor fisherman, Lefteris, and helps him on his way to Ioannina.