Yannis Tsortekis

Yannis Tsortekis


in Athens, Greece
Yiannis Tsortekis (Neo Psychiko, 1967) is a Greek actor and director of cinema, television and theatre.

He was born and raised in Neo Psychiko, Athens. He is a graduate of the National Theater as well as a graduate of the Department of Theater Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Patras.

He is widely known for his participation in the television adaptation of the short story "To 10" by Miltiadis Karagatsis on Alpha TV in the 2007-2008 season. Then followed some participations in the cinema, in the film "The Little Fish" and recently in the film "The Ballad of the Holey Heart". In 2021, he won the "Best Actor" award for his role in this film. In the 2021 season "Postcard" series on ERT1. In 2022 he returns and participates in three productions, in "Dark Sea", in "Maestro" by Christoforos Papakaliatis at MEGA and in the series "This night stays" at Alpha.

In 2009 he was awarded the "Karolos Koon" award for his performance in the play "Black Calm" by Dimitris Maronitis

Movies for Yannis Tsortekis...

Title: Ο Σκαραβαίος
Character: Markos Alexiou
Released: February 4, 2024
Type: TV
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Brando with a Glass Eye
Title: Brando with a Glass Eye
Character: Vasilis
Released: January 18, 2024
Type: Movie
A method actor commits a heist that goes wrong. He befriends the critically injured victim and tries to reconcile his guilt before his one shot audition in New York.
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Fonissa
Title: Fonissa
Released: November 30, 2023
Type: Movie
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
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Crossing
Title: Crossing
Character: Antonis
Released: October 2, 2023
Type: Movie
A railway crossing in the middle of nowhere. Two guards: solitary Yiannis who never leaves his post and cool Antonis who goes with the rhythm of the landscape. Every once in a while, a voice announces the passing of a train. The two guards manually lower the bars. Nothing seems to stir their daily routine until love charges in, crushing all certainties.
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The Chaos She Left Behind
Title: The Chaos She Left Behind
Character: Dimitris
Released: September 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Anna, in her late twenties, feels like her life is sliding away from her hands. A ticket to a music school in Paris might be the last chance to pursue her dream unless her manipulative, self-destructive alcoholic father stands in her way.
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Title: Maestro in Blue
Character: Charalampos
Released: October 13, 2022
Type: TV
A musician goes to lead a festival on a scenic island, where he begins an unexpected romance and finds himself entwined in other people's problems.
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Title: Αυτή η Νύχτα Μένει
Character: Γιώργης
Released: October 10, 2022
Type: TV
The lives of different people and also different worlds are entangled. Of the night and the margin on the one hand, of the day and the legal order on the other. The two worlds will come together to clash to the death. As everyone's secrets are revealed and losses pile up on both sides, a great love will be born from the ashes and people will discover who the world around them really is as well as themselves. Because beneath the cruelty and hypocrisy, the fate of all of us is common.
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Not Tomorrow
Title: Not Tomorrow
Released: September 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Michalis has barely 24 hours to redefine his life and make up for his close ones. That same night he meets a girl. He only wishes that the morning never comes.
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11.20 a.m.
Title: 11.20 a.m.
Character: Dimitris
Released: September 6, 2022
Type: Movie
Olga, a domestic worker originally from Albania, finds herself in a house she works in downtown Athens, at the right time. Or at the wrong one?
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Title: Σκοτεινή Θάλασσα
Character: Savvas Gkoritsas
Released: January 3, 2022
Type: TV
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Green Sea
Title: Green Sea
Character: Roula
Released: November 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Anna has lost her memory but she hasn’t forgotten how to cook. One night she shows up in a working-class neighborhood. There she meets Roula and gets a job as a cook and a place to stay at his shabby seaside tavern. In the kitchen, amidst the scents of spices and old forgotten recipes, Anna struggles to rebuild her past. Her simple but delicious food awakens memories for the regulars who in turn help her to reconnect with herself. The story takes an unexpected turn when Roula suddenly stumbles upon the Green Sea and discovers Anna’s true identity.
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Title: Cartes Postales from Greece
Character: Γιώργος
Released: October 2, 2021
Type: TV
Based on the books of famous author Victoria Hislop, the series transports us to Crete and London, through 12 riveting, independent stories, starring Andreas Κonstantinou. Joseph, an introverted, Greek-born English archaeologist, is planning to propose to his girlfriend and has arranged a trip to his birthplace, Crete. When she doesn't show up at the airport, he sets out on a solitary walkabout of the island. He starts sending postcards to his ex-girlfriend's house in London, with stories he hears or experiences. He doesn't know, however, that the postcards are received by the house's new occupant, Eli, who develops feelings for this mysterious man.
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Soul Food
Title: Soul Food
Released: September 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.
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Iro /he.roː/
Title: Iro /he.roː/
Released: September 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Today is Tuesday but Iro is not at school. Instead she's at home and she's ready to set off on a Journey with her mom and a Super Hero towards Lake Stymphalia.
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Ballad for a Pierced Heart
Title: Ballad for a Pierced Heart
Character: Iraklis
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: Movie
In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets with greed money, dead bodies start pilling up and "Sleeping Beauty" Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of.
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37 Days
Title: 37 Days
Character: Stelios
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: Movie
When Maria, a young pregnant woman is fired, she goes on a birth strike.
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Entropy
Title: Entropy
Released: September 19, 2018
Type: Movie
It's Eleni's birthday. Friends and relatives are gathering together. Their relationships are going to be tested.
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Mum, I'm Back
Title: Mum, I'm Back
Released: October 9, 2017
Type: Movie
A woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother.
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USSAK
Title: USSAK
Character: Zafos
Released: May 2, 2017
Type: Movie
In a suffering country somewhere in the near future, a community of misfits who live in a state of decadence and paranoia, tries to claim a decent life, fighting against an authoritarian oppressive regime.
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Suntan
Title: Suntan
Character: Takis
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.
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Spring Awakening
Title: Spring Awakening
Character: Kostas
Released: February 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Contemporary Athens: A gang of teenage thieves and romantic anarchists test the limits of their youthful rebellion and play out their own tragic spring awakening against the backdrop of a dying city.
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Cruiser
Title: Cruiser
Released: December 21, 2015
Type: Movie
It’s just another night at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of Athens. Vlassis starts his night shift. Stephanos, a middle-aged truck driver, ends up at the gas station on the same night. The two of them confide their thoughts and dreams in one another, trapped in the Athens night.
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At Home
Title: At Home
Character: Markos
Released: September 4, 2014
Type: Movie
For many years, Nadja has worked as a housekeeper for an upper class Greek couple and their daughter. She’s allowed to feel like part of the family. When she’s diagnosed with a serious illness, and the man of the house runs into financial difficulties due to the economic crisis, Nadja loses her job. Yet she shows no external sign of how these two traumatic events have affected her.
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II
Title: II
Character: Guide
Released: September 2, 2014
Type: Movie
An old groom walks in the open horizon towards a bride waiting for him. They meet but the distance between them starts to grow once again.
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Stratos
Title: Stratos
Character: Giorgos
Released: March 27, 2014
Type: Movie
At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day during a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life. Stratos never forgot this. A free man now, Stratos works the night shift at a bakery workshop, a far cry from the killing contracts he executes by day. He gives away all his money to spring Leonidas out of prison, funding an escape plan managed by Leo’s brother, Yorgos. The fulfillment of his debt is the only thing that matters to Stratos, everything else is indifferent and he lives detached, surrounded by ghosts and fallacies. The day of the escape, the most important day of his life, is near…
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45 Degrees
Title: 45 Degrees
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: April 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Athens, August 2012. 45 degrees. The fridge is empty. The situation is very tense. A father changes under the burden of the economic crisis. It's getting dark and its still boiling hot. A capital at the border of exploding.
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J.A.C.E.
Title: J.A.C.E.
Character: Thomas Tepelenis
Released: November 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where violent loss seems to be his only destiny. The movie follows Jace's inverted Odyssey in a dark universe of abuse, murder and fear, as he desperately (and silently) seeks for a "family" of his own or, at least, for a sense of belonging
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Dad, Lenin and Freddy
Title: Dad, Lenin and Freddy
Released: November 4, 2011
Type: Movie
During the 80's, in Athens, a nine-year old girl gradually loses touch with her workaholic communist father. She fantasizes that Vladimir Lenin wants to harm him. Things get worse when the American movie maniac Freddy Krueger joins forces with the Russian.
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Harisma
Title: Harisma
Character: Mihalis
Released: November 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Ismini is in her early 30s. She is cultivated, delicate, sensitive and... emotionally handicapped. She has developed a simplistic system of defense to protect her emotions: no one is to come near. It is exactly the moment when this collapses that unsophisticated, simple, impolite, aggressive and greatly passionate Haris appears in her life.
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13½
Title: 13½
Released: January 30, 2010
Type: Movie
Aphrodite is thirteen and a half. Her friends call her Tin-Tin. Aphrodite is in love with Lou. Aphrodite wants to grow up...
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Title: Το 10
Character: Nikolas Valvis
Released: September 27, 2007
Type: TV
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Save Me
Title: Save Me
Released: November 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Anna faces everyday problems in her Greek life. Her previous "man" left her debts, the new guy approved not to be the right one, in addition to these she loses her job and indeed needs somebody to rescue her!