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Thanasis Arvanitis (Θανάσης Αρβανίτης) was lucky enough to catch the golden age of Greek cinema, towards its end, and to become a professional at the historic Finos Film, working alongside experienced technicians and well-known stars including Alekos Alexandrakis, Maro Kontou, Giorgos Konstantinou, Elena Nathanail, etc. in films such as "Santa Claus Wakes Up", "An Italian Woman from the Beehive", etc.
He continued to develop into one of the best professionals in the genre. It is no coincidence that the most important Greek directors chose him for their work. Among them are the multi-award-winning Theodoros Angelopoulos with whom he collaborated in “The Troupe” and “Journey to Kythera”, Gilles Dassin in “The Cry of Women” with Melina Mercouri, the internationally renowned Costas Gavras in the 2009 Greek-French film “Paradise in the West”, Stavros Tsiolis in “The Little Fugitive”, Thanasis Vengos in “Thou – Vo Bald Agent – Operation: Earth Midian”, Nikos Koundrouros in “Ballad of a Possessed Man”, Pantelis Voulgaris in “Happy Day”, Nikos Panagiotopoulos in “The Lazy Ones of the Fertile Valley”, Nikos Nikolaidis in “The Sweet Gang”, Lakis Papastathis in “Weather of the Greeks" but also Nikos Perrakis, Tasos Boulmetis and many more.
Most Popular Thanasis Arvanitis Trailers
Total trailers found: 60
01 January 1981
A documentary shown on Greek television in 1981, that describes the plight of Greek villages abandoned by their inhabitants.
03 March 1980
A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927.
01 September 1976
A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments.
13 April 1969
Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often - but with no luck.
23 December 1968
A boy escapes from the reformatory and hides in a young girl’s house. The two kids become friends..
01 October 1987
A family story of incest, decadence and desolation. Greece, early twentieth century. A bourgeois family is on the verge of breaking up.
04 October 1984
The story of the Cyprus' turbulent recent history using the device of a desperate man, Evagoras (Costas Timvios), who returns to the island after years of absence to look for his wife and son.
19 October 1977
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.
04 January 1971
Poor Rena tries to find money to pay her lottery partner because she destroyed the wining lottery-ticket.
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.
13 November 1999
A divorced actor meets his 15-year-old son each Saturday. While the father encounters professional and relationship problems in his everyday life, his son is anxious about his first date with a girl.
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.
21 April 1984
An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.
06 May 1990
An employee of a pharmaceutical company is unjustly accused of doping a racehorse and finds refuge in a provincial troupe, where he becomes the man for all errands.
13 March 2010
A cinematic portrait of director Nikos Koundouros, this documentary explores his artistic journey through the voices of renowned Greek artists, tracing the experiences and influences that shaped his visionary work.
04 June 1999
As his wedding day approaches, the architect Yannis keeps having a recurring dream that leaves him shaken when he wakes up.
01 July 1975
A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”.
18 February 1998
Three stories dealing with three men and their stance towards life, given their personal background. All stories are held in Northern Greece (Macedonia and Thrace), covering all the spectrum from urban to rural settings.
03 March 1991
A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner.
11 November 1995
The real-life story of the life and murder of an 18-year-old girl by her husband.
25 September 2009
Antonis lives alone in his family's beach house, hiding away from the world. He has given up on life and is literally watching the world pass him by.
03 October 1978
The story of four fellow students who fall in love with the same girl.
21 May 1978
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea.
24 September 1970
An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event.
29 October 1987
On the morning of the World Cup final, Karamanos, an employee of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (TOE), connects his commander's personal computer to a devilishly complex and explosive device.
12 January 1996
1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night.
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.
01 January 1984
In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied its capital, Beirut. The film is a rare example of a PLO film made after the PLO’s departure from Beirut.
07 March 2003
Lisa: A 25 years old pretty girl. She lives alone and works at the magazine Cosmopolitan. She is disappointed by the relations with men.
07 May 1974
A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early morning hours.
15 November 1992
Poet Lord Byron decides to fight with the Greek revolutionaries in Missolonghi against the Turks but instead the glorious battle wrestles with fever and his own demons.
18 September 1968
The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to fill the bill, a specimen who has all these characteristics.
01 January 1969
Thanasis and he will become barber, continuing the tradition of Chatzipapageorgakopoulokonstantinogiannopoulon in traditional shop in the neighborhood, without knowing that the court of the occupation, the German commander, Von Tzifren, has hidden a treasure.
15 November 1998
In this wry retelling of the ancient Medusa myth, strange, clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece.
01 April 1983
A poetic visit to the city of Athens, based on paintings, poems and philosophical texts.
31 October 1985
After the death of her father a young woman who was a student in Germany suffers a nervous breakdown and withdraws inside herself.
14 November 1962
A God-fearing young man refuses to sell his, rich in ore, pasture to a mining company. So an agent of this company creates a scam of a so-called miracle in order to convince him.
11 December 1964
Thanasis (Giannis Gionakis) succumbs to the pressure of his wife (Kati Lambropoulou) and buys an old car that turns out to be a shame.
01 October 1978
A wealthy member of the upper classes and his three sons withdraw to a country villa where they spend their days in complete idleness, having everything done for them by their young and beautiful maid.
23 January 2004
Chronis, Vaillia and Elftheria are not "IN." They are not featured in glossy magazines. They don't have perfect bodies, they don't make love on the first date.
09 October 1981
The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.
30 September 1972
The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.
24 January 1972
Stavros has a cafe with his brother years and are the only ones in the family who care to get by. He is in love with Mary, which, however, not turning to look at him.
03 March 1985
A biopic about the rise and fall of one of Greece's most esteemed poets, Napoleon Lapathiotis.
06 October 1985
The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974.
17 February 1969
A young typist in a company, Maro, knows that her boss's son dislikes her because of her unkempt appearance and clumsiness.
02 December 1988
Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband.
01 January 1984
The film follows a woman's internal migration through her childhood memories and descriptions of places and situations.
18 January 1985
An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
29 September 1973
Up against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm painter decides to protest by bricking up the windows of his house.
11 April 1992
A village in Arcadia invites a "famous" icon painter and his assistant to restore the worn-out murals in a historic church.
13 November 1993
Four episodes, four instances from a man’s life covering 25 years, from 1965 in Germany to 1990 in Athens.
12 April 1988
Twelve-year-old Vasilis escapes the orphanage, wanders a while in the capital and then takes the train for his hometown, Tripolis.
01 April 1986
Eighteen hundred Greek political refugees and their children return to Greece after 35 years of exile in the village of Beloiannisz, built near Budapest in 1950.
03 September 2001
At the wedding dress rehearsal, just before the big day, a phone call changes everything. Enraged, the bride decides to take revenge, and in her fury, she ravages everything in her path.
28 March 1979
The episode of the documentary series Paraskinio, produced in 1979, dedicates its first part to two great actors of theater and cinema, Dinos Iliopoulos and Mimis Fotopoulos.
03 October 1980
In 1972, to provide Athens with water, a bold project began, involving the creation of an artificial lake from the water of Mornos River, leading, however, to the destruction of the Velouchovo village, and the ancient town of Kallipolis.
19 September 1991
Epirus, province of Pogoni, on the borderline with Albania. Emigration and a sense of death scattered in the air, in the light.
