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Katerina Gogou (Greek: Κατερίνα Γώγου; 1940–1993) was a Greek poet, author and actress. She was born in 1940 during World War II and the Axis occupation of Greece, for which she did not spend a pleasant childhood. She had a strict father with whom she lived during her childhood. Afterwards, in her teenage years, she lived with her mother. From the age of 5 years she started acting in children's plays. Professionally she debuted in theater with Dinos Iliopoulos' theater company in the play Ο Κύριος πέντε τοις εκατό (Mr. five percent) in 1961. She made her first cinematographic appearance in the film Ο άλλος (The other one / The other person). Most of the films she participated in were Finos Film productions. She became more widely known for roles of cheerful and carefree women like in the movies Το ξύλο βγήκε από τον παράδεισο (The wood came out of paradise) and Μια τρελή τρελή οικογένεια (A crazy crazy family). She has received the award for best actress in a lead role in Thessaloniki International Film Festival for the film Το βαρύ πεπόνι (The heavy melon - this phrase in Greek is an idiom referring to someone who tries to appear as a macho man), directed by Pavlos Tasios. As a poet she was known for her revolutionary and aggressive writing. She was an anarchist and her political identity was often reflected in her poems, such as "Υπερασπίζομαι την Αναρχία" (I support/defend Anarchy) or "Εμένα οι φίλοι μου είναι μαύρα πουλιά" (My friends are black birds). She also wrote some books with one of them, Τρία κλικ αριστερά (Three Clicks Left), being translated into English in 1983 by Jack Hirschman and published by Night Horn Books in San Francisco and also into Turkish in 2018 by Turkish author Mahir Ergun and published by Belge International Publishing House in Istanbul.
Katerina Gogou was participating actively in the anarchist movement, especially in the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens. She supported anarchist prisoners and participated in movements for the liberation of political prisoners. She had been arrested several times, one of which as a suspect for the murder of two police officers by the Revolutionary Organization 17 Noemvri, for which she was declared innocent. She had a bad relationship with the police, having filed a complaint after being attacked by police officers during a protest.
She was married to film director Pavlos Tassios, with whom she had a daughter.Later in her life she got addicted to alcohol and drugs. She was found dead in her apartment in October 1993 due to a drug overdose.
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01 January 1960
A young girl, in an attempt to avoid the aspirations of her bosses, gets a job disguised as a man.
04 October 1984
A group of intellectuals holidaying together at an isolated beach become mentally unhinged by the presence of a beautiful English nudist.
01 January 1972
Gina, daughter of businessman Archelaou, runs away from home to not marry the groom she chose her father.
10 August 1969
A wealthy young man with a bright future, Andreas, finishes the Polytechnic at a time when the lovely Stella, the girl she is in love with, starts her studies at the University.
25 October 1965
Mika is a young woman living in a crazy ... family. Her mother, Pasta Flora, is alienated, her little sister is uncontrollable, and her father is a good, but cowardly, man.
01 January 1965
Kaiti's father decides to end Nikos' family and evicts them. Nikos and his mother rent a room in Anna's family's house.
18 December 1964
The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of which she takes over the management, but at the same time, she is looking to find ways of charm to conquer the lively sub-engineer Alekos Samiotakis.
28 June 1965
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house.
16 November 1959
Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult.
01 January 1961
An unemployed man (Kostas Chatzichristos), prone to endless amusements, economically sucks his uncle (Periklis Christoforidis) in order to satisfy his desires.
05 May 1962
Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it.
16 March 1970
A spoiled rich girl falls in love with a poor, good-looking but also talented pianist, rejecting a wealthy suitor from her own class.
31 March 1969
A barber tries to find husbands for his four sisters so that he can marry his fiancee.
07 December 1964
Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact.
01 January 1970
Two detergent entrepreneurs decide to marry their children, each believing that their rival holds the secret to a certain type of biological enzyme.
21 June 1977
A provincial café owner, Mimis, abandons his village in Chalkidiki and comes to Athens in search of a better life.
06 November 1972
A young man pushed beyond his endurance remembers his life on the roof of a tall building. He's there to commit suicide.
01 April 1978
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.
23 September 1971
A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos.
01 January 1959
Comedy where Athanassios inherits a castle supposedly inhabited by Count Dracula, and decides to settle the question.
01 January 1969
A girl from the countryside, Marina (Katerina Gogou), comes to Athens to work in the shop of a family friend (Theodoros Katsadramis) of her father.
13 April 1963
Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in the book--including a cunning but charming impersonation--to reach her goal.
21 October 1968
A wretch employee wins a lot of money in the lottery and loses his mind. When he comes out of the mental hospital, he finds out that things at his home have changed radically.
01 January 1965
The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves. When her uncle from America and her older sister arrive, the situation radically changes, because the new arrivals happen to be open-minded and view things in a different light.
11 November 1963
Fotis and Kosmas are partners in a country resort. They are not so concerned with their work as they are with their unmarried sisters.
05 October 1980
The true story of Nikos Koemtzis, a man who stabbed three men to death in 1973 Athens for disrespecting his brother Demos' zeibekiko, a traditional Greek dance.
01 January 1962
A tailor mistakenly considered an ambassador of a foreign country, which exploits the future father in law to present him as a groom on frivolous daughter.
07 March 2013
The biography of poet and actress Katerina Gogou. In the film, Boskoitis combines exclusively in black and white, archival material and interviews with Gogou's friends and collaborators, along with dramatized sketches from her life (starring Loukia Michalopoulou) as well as well-known, set-to-music poems of hers.
