Acting
May 28, 1935
Pyrgos, Ilia, Grece
Kostas Kazakos
Acting
Biography
Kostas Kazakos (Greek: Κώστας Καζάκος Pyrgos, Ilia, 29 May 1935 – 13 September 2022) was a Greek actor and director. He was elected Member of Parliament with the KKE (Communist Party of Greece) in 2007 and 2009. He was a graduate of the Lykourgos Stavrakos Film School (specifically the Actors and Directors department) as well as the Karolos Koun Drama School of Theatre Arts. In 1973 he was awarded the First Gold Award of the Thessaloniki Film Festival for the most complete production, of the adaptation of Lysistrata. He was vice-president of the Greek Center of the International Theatre Institute. He was a founding member of the Hellenic-Arab Association and a member of the Actor's Licensing Committee, co-founder of the Free Theatre (together with Leon Trivizas) and founder of the "Jenny Karezi" Foundation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kostas Kazakos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (38)
The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
Iphigenia
Love story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.
Act of Reprisal
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
From a tragic misunderstanding, the farmer Stathis Karatasos (Angelos Antonopoulos) is accused as the leader of a notorious gang. He manages to escape just before getting executed and the law enforcement starts chasing him. Even the bandits are looking to find him, believing that he has the loot of the robbery in his possession. In addition, another prisoner called Tsakos (Kostas Kazakos) tries to locate him and bring him back dead or alive, in order to ensure the freedom promised to him by the police.
Bullets Don't Come Back
Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.
Lysistrata
The story of three young girls that are sisters and remain with their mother a tavern in the port. The Persa, the more dynamic it has relations with the labeled Zachos. The Tasia waiting at the port for years, the return of her beloved. Hara, a tomboy, reluctant to reveal feelings for Alekos, who sees it as a good childhood friend. Among all these catalytic moves a man of law, Orpheus.
I Die Every Dawn
The Peace and Betty are twins and look like as two drops of water but their characters are completely different. Betty is open and jovial man while peace is closed off and timid. Their music professor Roda visitors to their island home and proposes to the Peace who are virtuoso piano to follow a series of concerts in Paris. Initially HESITATES but when Betty will announce that he will marry with Petro, with which peace is also in love, will change their minds and accept the proposal of Roda.
Erotic Symphony
The Antonis Maras, a successful professional, and his wife Olga live a peaceful and happy life until the Antonis discovers the double life of his wife. Instructs s` an employee to monitor and eventually will discover that the husband goes secretly to a remote house. The secret of Olga, however, is that extorted by a coil holding her brother hostage. The brother of escapes and suicides and members of Spiral abduct Olga.
A Matter of Fatal Importance
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well. Whatever crosses the river separating the two families, be it man or beast, dies. The film is yet another rendering of the Romeo and Juliet tale, with intense emotions, dominated by the extreme behavior of the heroes. The film tries to imitate the style, atmosphere and action of westerns.
Love and Blood
Athens, shortly before the outbreak of World War II and an Army General Staff official, Niki (Jenny Carezis), is charged with channeling confidential documents to an Italian agent. The category is right. The girl was blackmailing herself with the life of her brother studying in Italy. She does not make any effort to defend herself and is indifferent if she is sentenced to death, but she accepts the cooperative proposal proposed by General Darius, that is to continue to channel secret documents to the Italians, but now they are deliberately made to deceive the enemy . The whole case is also involved with a captain, Theodorou, who is in love with Niki. Theodorou is arrested for misappropriation of documents and goes through a military court where he is sentenced to demolition and death. Certainly, his execution was fictitious, and on the day Greek troops enter Korça, he is shown alive to Niki, which does not hide her surprise.
Concert for Machine Guns
Grigoris (Kostas Voutsas), a shopkeeper from Katerini, wins the first prize at a radio station that covers his expenses for a week in Athens. Arriving in the capital, the members of two gangs think it is Polydoros, the man who was to carry a stolen ancient statue to sell it to a rich collector. Grigoris, by chance, acquires the statue, and the captain (Kostas Kazakos) of a gang, with the help of a charming woman (Eleni Prokopiou), tries to trap him. Eventually, Grigoris will be hunted by both the gangs and the police ...
The face of the day
Television & Series (4)
The lives of four women from the beginning to maturity... A lawyer, a singer, a publisher and a woman who sacrificed her career for her husband's, walk together in modern Greece. Their experiences and character determine their actions, leading each to chart her own path.
