Acting
Sep 6, 1939
Analipsi, Biotia, Greece
Christos Tsagas
Acting
Biography
Christos Tsagas (Greek: Χρήστος Τσάγκας - Analipsi, Boeotias, 7 September 1939 - Athens, 17 March 2011) was a Greek actor. He was born on 7 September 1939 in Analipsi, Boeotias. He studied acting at the National Theatre School. He had an important career in the life of Greek theatre and collaborated with the greatest Greek actors: Dimitris Horn, Dimitris Papamichael, Dimitris Myrat, Voula Zoumboulaki, Katina Paxinou, Melina Mercouri, Anna Synodinou, etc. He starred in more than 40 plays. He directed over 40 plays and was a co-founder of the "Palkosenikos" and the Knossos Theater, where he staged selected works of the classical repertoire. He starred in 27 films, including Until the Ship by Alexis Damianos, Safe Sex (1999), The Photograph by Nikos Papatakis (1986), The Order by Pavlos Tassios, A Laughing Afternoon (1979), Aliossa (2000), Donoussa (1992), Ephemeral City (2000), The Descent of the Nine (1984), Iphigenia (1977), Red Dragon (1998), The Wall (1977), We Have Arrived! (2004), etc. He was married and had two children, a son and a daughter. He died at his home in Athens, on 17 March 2011 at the age of 71, a few years after the deaths of his wife and daughter. He was buried in his birthplace, Analipsi, Boeotia.
Feature Films (20)
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
A gruff highlander leaves his village and heads to the town and harbor where he will embark for Australia. We follow his descent to the sea through three stories
Until the Ship Sails
A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding regarding the photograph sets off a series of dramatic misunderstandings which trap him in a vicious circle of lies and fantasies.
The Photograph
During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of Oedipus.
Der Fall Ö.
The adventures of a car tire in the Attica region, in Greece. The tire was unexpectedly released from the car and started wandering independently in various places
The Wheel
A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.
Safe Sex
Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works as a book representative, while their friend Michalis is a pirate taxi-driver. The robbery is successful, and they feel excited.
Robbery in Athens
A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by Venizelos after the Goudi movement, his dispute with the King over Greece's stance in the First World War, the temporary his withdrawal from politics after his defeat in the 1920 elections and the Asia Minor disaster. A biography of the former Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos and the recreation of his acts and the political and social climate in Greece from 1910 to 1927.
Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927
Summer 1949: end of the civil war in Greece. The last band of guerrillas of the Democratic Army is forced to abandon Mount Taygetus and to head for the sea. Everything behind them has collapsed and they can count on help from no one. In this long, desperate and aimless march, the group will end up by being annihilated by the National Army and the armed villagers.
The Descent of the Nine
Two parallel stories complement each other. The first recounts the investigation of a journalist and an actress who, through a radio program, attempt to identify parallels between terrorist acts of the present and the past. The second takes us back to 1948 and describes the events that led to the murder of American journalist George Polk in Thessaloniki, guided by the investigation of the two protagonists and the testimonies of various individuals.
O fakellos Polk ston aera
Television & Series (7)
The adventures of a left-wing revolutionary, Manos Simonides, who during the difficult years of the war goes underground and hides in a boarding house in Jerusalem. In the same place, which is a small Babel, other refugees from Greece, Egypt and other allied countries also live and hide. Among them are people of different religions, a Greek who fought in the Spanish Civil War, an Austrian former minister with his wife, various adventurers, traffickers, agents, intellectuals, communists and fascists. Manos falls in love with Emmi, the Austrian's wife, but she, while she loves him passionately, does not have sexual intercourse with him, preferring to surrender to the abnormal appetites of a trafficker.
