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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.
Most Popular Mihalis Giannatos Trailers
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30 August 2001
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
13 November 2005
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
01 February 1991
A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.
23 December 2005
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September.
31 August 1978
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison.
02 January 2002
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.
17 October 1985
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.
09 September 1995
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.
18 April 2001
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
30 December 1968
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.
27 December 2005
Escaping the dreary wet weather of 1930s England, an eccentric family uproot and ship themselves to the sunnier climes of the Greek island of Corfu.
23 October 1998
Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past.
10 September 1988
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
23 October 1986
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.
12 October 1995
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.
01 February 1983
A brutal father, shaped by the right-wing deep state, forces his two sons and daughter into deadly ambushes to rob passing cars.
24 October 2003
"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.
27 November 2008
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.
21 April 1984
An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.
04 December 1991
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
01 January 1973
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.
06 December 1990
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
01 January 1983
Stathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music. They are three crazy siblings.
12 November 1973
The adventures of a photographer, who undertook to take a photographs of exiled dictator from South America and eventually found chased without knowing why.
17 November 1986
Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia.
22 November 1971
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.
20 February 2004
The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, personal lives intersect with Greece’s major historical transformations.
08 March 1996
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.
08 September 1980
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.
23 September 1999
A man sees a poster of an old movie that he claims to have acted in
14 September 2003
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.
01 November 2001
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.
15 September 1984
An astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island.
26 May 1991
Shadow puppetry is not only part of the heritage of East Asia; Greece had its own traditional form of this popular art.
23 May 2002
The classic comedy, Alekos Sakellarios, Christos Giannakopoulos, "Ilias the 16th", which was performed in the summer of 2002 at the theater "Minoa" entitled "Markos .
26 January 1996
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.
13 March 1987
In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean.
25 July 1976
The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74).
07 October 1982
A group of minors escape from a reformatory and lock themselves in a museum on an island, threatening to destroy the statues if their demands are not met.
08 December 1980
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.
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 1980
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
01 January 1975
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.
19 March 1979
The film presents seven short stories of everyday madness: parking in Athens. Thanasis, the soccer referee.
13 June 1979
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.
01 December 1988
Thanasis lives in today's conditions, where Greece is a madhouse. A police sergeant after many years of impeccable service, he anxiously awaits his long-awaited promotion.
25 December 1978
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.
01 October 1982
Manolis finishes his military service and stays in the capital, at his uncle's house (Kostas Kazakos).
24 December 1973
An immigrant in Germany works hard to support his father and sister, who live in Greece. When he is forced to return home, he discovers that he has no money because the bank where he kept his savings has gone bankrupt.
01 January 1987
Dimitris Apostolou is a successful lawyer and former minister. He lives peacefully with his wife and daughter, leading an uneventful family life.
14 November 1999
1900, Kastoria, Western Macedonia. Greeks, Turks, Jews, and other nationalities live together under the Ottoman Empire, amid the despair, instability, and confusion brought about by the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
26 November 2003
Zissos and Apostolos are two Greeks living in a city in the Ottoman East in the early 20th century. A load of pounds will throw them into wandering and adventure, and from there into their physical and mental impasse.
01 January 1987
Tamtakos has a goat, Sardanafalos, and exploits its reproduction with the goats of the area. However, he falls into the trap of the tax authorities, who cannot classify the goat's "leap" in the VAT category.
07 June 1983
Dimitris Lembessis gets out of prison, pays his friend Stratos a visit and kills him. With Ilias he organizes a big jewel heist.
