Acting
Mar 4, 1951
Athens, Greece
Giorgos Ninios
Acting
Biography
Giorgos Ninios is a Greek television, film and stage actor with an extensive filmography. He has won two awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for Best Supporting Actor in 1989 and 1991.
Feature Films (20)
Shadow puppetry is not only part of the heritage of East Asia; Greece had its own traditional form of this popular art. In this leisurely drama, set in 1950s Athens, Antonis Barkis (Kostas Kasakos) is the master puppeteer for a traditional shadow show. However, although he is still making a living, it is clear that other forms of popular entertainment will soon supplant this one. This does not improve Antonis' temper, and his assistant's desires to modernize their entertainments only make it worse.
Master of the Shadows
Sali, a young man of Albanian origin, has dropped out of school and works at greenhouses. He wants to save enough money to go through the tryout process of Juventus Academy. But to realize his dream, he must first overcome a series of hurdles in his harsh daily life.
Greenhouse
This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.
The Athenians
A little story from a blue-collar neighborhood. Lina, a middle-aged lady who never leaves the balcony of her house, intervenes in everything that happens within her visual field. People passing by in front of her building, neighbors from the apartments across the street, everyone realize that whatever they do, Lina is watching day and night and intervenes: From throwing a bandage from her balcony when an accident takes place to giving parking advice or notifying the police for a burglary. Some are surprised by her attitude, but most are annoyed by her constant gaze on them. Until Lina loses her son in a car accident and does not go out to her balcony ever since. The neighborhood is not the same anymore.
From The Balcony
Despoina, a 20-year-old girl from a village in Evros, trying to find a way out of her stifling provincial life, runs away with a reserve officer to Athens, believing that there she will find the fulfillment of her dreams.
Despina
In this Greek romantic comedy, Athens bus lines manager Voulis (Giorgos Ninios) has given up trying to salvage his marriage. Instead, he devotes time and energy to feeling-up cute commuters, eventually developing a fascination with one passenger in particular.
Touch Me Not
Two soldiers are coming back home, an accident on their way will change their lives forever.
The Crossing
The paths of five people—a French archaeologist, his Greek assistant, his daughter, her journalist friend, and an elderly teacher who is a permanent resident of the area—cross at an archaeological excavation site during the autumn equinox. a permanent resident of the area, intersect at an archaeological excavation site during the autumn equinox. Next to the ancient ruins, the age-old game of love and deceit is replayed. A game of hide-and-seek, quite obvious.
Isimeria
A lone car thief, meets a mysterious and charming woman who would be the love of his life but will lure him into a dangerous adventure.
U-Turn
The secret services of the junta use a resisting captain who is now their prisoner in order to trap some resistance kernels. The conflicting ideological trajectories of people, each representing something specific, are drifting from the whirlpool of history, composing a mosaic of representative heroes of a time.
Farther Right Than the Right
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. He threatens to blow up the floor and the satellite dishes above if he is not allowed to appear on the national network 10 minutes before the football match to denounce all the wrongs that plague the lives of Greek citizens and make them victims of a partisan and corrupt state.
Living Dangerously
Television & Series (19)
Philip Andreou, a former motorcycle champion and now a successful writer, lives with his wife, Anna, in their home in Pikermi. The couple's only "rock" seems to be Anna's twin sister, Eva. Sensitive, exuberant, insecure, an actress and dancer, she works here and there in dance groups and experimental troupes. Eva has an affair with a young photographer, Leonidas. Eva's love affair with Leonidas is as episodic as her life. They argue and often end up in police stations and hospitals. The balance of the Philip-Anna relationship is upset the moment Anna brings her sister to their home...
