Greek films of the 1970s
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 in the 1970s.

1970s

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1970
1970 in film
The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

Ipolohagos Natassa
Ipolochagos Natassa
Ipolochagos Natassa is a 1970 Greek film. It starred Aliki Vougiouklaki as Natassa, Dimitris Papamichael as Orestis, and Costas Carras as Max. The story about the German occupation of Greece and the resistance by the Greeks...


Υπολοχαγός Νατάσσα
Nikos Foskolos Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki was a Greek actress. She is considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of Greek cinema.-Biography:...

, Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael
Dimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...

 
War drama IMDb
Reconstruction
(Αναπαράσταση)
Theo Angelopoulos
Theo Angelopoulos
Theodoros Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.-Life:Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC before returning...

 
Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totzikas Crime drama 1 win - IMDb
1971
1971 in film
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...

Evdokia
Evdokia
Evdokia is one of the most important works of Greek cinema. Evdokia is a drama of passion whose main characters are a sergeant and a prostitute who get married after a brief passionate idyll. Very soon, however, the influence of their environment strains their relationship, and the man tries to...


(Ευδοκία)
Alexis Damianos Maria Vassiliou, Koula Agagiotou
Koula Agagiotou
Koula Agagiotou was a Greek actress. She is probably best known for her role in the Greek sitcom To Retire.-Biography:...

 
Drama IMDb
Ti ekanes ston polemo, Thanassi?,
Τι έκανες στον πόλεμο, Θανάση;
Dinos Katsouridis Thanasis Veggos, Efi Roditi, Kaiti Labropoulou, Katerina Gogou Comedy drama IMDb
1972
1972 in film
The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...

AERA! AERA! AERA!
AERA! AERA! AERA!
Aera! Aera! Aera! is a 1972 Greek feature film directed by Kostas Andritsos, starring Yannis Voglis and Xenia Kalogeropoulou. The plot concerns a group of young people who become entangled in military maneuvers. It is set at the Greek border with Albania in October 1940, during Mussolini's...


Αέρα! Αέρα! Αέρα!
Kostas Andritsos
Kostas Andritsos
Kostas Andritsos is a Greek film director and writer.Films directed include AERA! AERA! AERA! .- External links :...

 
Yannis Voglis, Xenia Kalogeropoulou War IMDb
1973
1973 in film
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....

O Megalos Erotikos
Ο μεγάλος ερωτικός
Pantelis Voulgaris Documentary Music by Manos Hadjidakis
Manos Hadjidakis
Manos Hatzidakis was a Greek composer and theorist of the Greek music. He was also one of the main prime movers of the "Éntekhno" song ....

 - IMDb
1974
1974 in film
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...

Attila 74
(Αττίλας '74)
Michael Cacoyannis  Documentary IMDb
The Rehearsal
The Rehearsal (film)
The Rehearsal is a 1974 film produced by Jules Dassin that is a cinemagraphic indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.-Cast:*Jules Dassin*Olympia Dukakis*Stathis Giallelis*Lillian Hellman*Melina Mercouri...


(I Dokimi, Η δοκιμή)
Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin
Julius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:...

 
Jules Dassin, Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis is an American actress. In 1987, she won an Academy Award, BAFTA, and a Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck...

 
Drama UK-Greek co-production
1975
1975 in film
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....

The Travelling Players
The Travelling Players
The Travelling Players is a 1975 Greek film directed by Theo Angelopoulos that traces the history of mid-20th century Greece from 1939 to 1952.-Plot:...


(O Thiasos, Ο Θίασος)
Theo Angelopoulos
Theo Angelopoulos
Theodoros Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.-Life:Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC before returning...

 
Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Vangelis Kazan
Vangelis Kazan
-Biography:Kazan was born in Nafplion. His career in theater, cinema and television spanned for half a century. He repeatedly collaborated with Theo Angelopoulos and was awarded the Best Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1975 for his part in The Travelling Players. He died in...

 
Drama 3 wins & 1 nomination - IMDb
1976
1976 in film
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...

Happy Day' Pantelis Voulgaris Zorz Sarri, Giorgos Moschidis, Nikos Bousdoukos, Costa Fyssoun Drama Political detainees (undefined place and time);
music by Dionysis Savvopoulos
Dionysis Savvopoulos
Dionysis Savvopoulos is a Greek music composer, lyricist and singer.He was born in Thessaloniki. In 1963 he moved to Athens, terminating his law studies in favour of his career in music...

 - IMDb
1977
1977 in film
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....

Iphigenia
Iphigenia (film)
Iphigenia is a 1977 Greek film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the Greek myth of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who was ordered by the goddess Artemis to be sacrificed...


Ιφιγένεια
Michael Cacoyannis  Tatiana Papamoschou
Tatiana Papamoschou
Tatiana Papamoschou is a Greek actress who has starred in numerous Greek theatrical, film and television productions. She is best known for her role as the title character in the 1977 Oscar-nominated film Iphigenia , for which she earned the Best Leading Actress Award at the 1977 Thessaloniki Film...

, Irene Papas
Irene Papas
Irene Papas is a Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over seventy films in a career spanning more than fifty years.-Life:...

, Kostas Kazakos
Kostas Kazakos
Kostas Kazakos is a Greek actor, director, and politician.He was married to the famous actress Tzeni Karezi with whom he has a son...

, Panos Mihalopoulos
Panos Mihalopoulos
Panos Mihalopoulos is a Greek actor and 80's sex symbol, who has appeared during the last three decades in movies and television series.-Films:*Iphigenia *Enas kontos tha mas sosei *Garsoniera gia deka...

 
Drama Entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival
1977 Cannes Film Festival
The 30th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 13-27. A new non-competitive section, 'Le Passé composé', is held at this festival only and focuses on compilations.- Jury :*Roberto Rossellini *N'Sougan Agblemagnon...

Kyr' Giorgis ekpaidevetai, O
Ο κυρ-Γιώργης εκπαιδεύεται
Giannis Dalianidis Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos was one of the most talented and loved actors in Greece. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece and made his stage debut in 1938, appearing as the Knight in William Shakespeare’s King Lear...

, Tonia Kaziani, Louiza Podimata
Comedy IMDb
The Hunters
The Hunters (1977 film)
The Hunters is a 1977 Greek drama film directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mairi Hronopoulou* Eva Kotamanidou* Aliki Georgouli* Vangelis Kazan as hotelier* Betty Valassi...

 
Οι Κυνηγοί
Theodoros Angelopoulos  Entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival
1977 Cannes Film Festival
The 30th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 13-27. A new non-competitive section, 'Le Passé composé', is held at this festival only and focuses on compilations.- Jury :*Roberto Rossellini *N'Sougan Agblemagnon...

1978
1978 in film
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....

Kravgi gynaikon
A Dream of Passion
A Dream of Passion is a 1978 Greek drama film directed by Jules Dassin. The story follows Melina Mercouri as an actress playing Medea who seeks out a mother, portrayed by Ellen Burstyn, in jail for murdering her own children.-Awards:...


Κραυγή Γυναικών
Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin
Julius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:...

 
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...

, Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn is a leading American actress of film, stage, and television. Burstyn's career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next ten years she appeared in several films and television series before joining the Actors Studio in 1967...

 
Drama Nominated for a Golden Globe and entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival
1978 Cannes Film Festival
The 31st Cannes Film Festival was held on May 16-30. This festival saw the introduction of a new non-competitive section, 'Un Certain Regard', which replaces 'Les Yeux Fertiles' , 'L'Air du temps' and 'Le Passé composé'.- Jury :*Alan J...

Apo pou pane gia ti havouza
Από πού πάνε για τη χαβούζα
Thanasis Veggos  Thanasis Veggos, Anna Vagena, Takis Miliadis
Takis Miliadis
Panagiotis Miliadis was a Greek actor who is known for his comedic acting roles.-Biography:Born in Athens, Greece on September 26, 1922, Takis Miliadis was born into an acting and singing family. Both of his parents were in the entertainment industry. His father Nikos, was a musical theatre...

, Alekos Livaditis
Comedy IMDb
1979
1979 in film
The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....

Ta Kourelia tragoudane akoma...
Τα κουρέλια τραγουδάνε ακόμα...
Nikos Nikolaidis
Nikos Nikolaidis
Nikos Nikolaidis was a Greek film director and a writer.Nikolaidis was born in 1939 in Athens, where he lived and worked all his life. He was also script writer and producer of movies which he directed. For a part of his time he produced television commercials...

Alkis Panagiotidis, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Hristos Valavanidis Drama IMDb

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