Eleni Zafeiriou
Birthday: 1916-01-01
Place of Birth: Larissa, Greece
Biography: Eleni Zafeiriou (Greek: Ελένη Ζαφειρίου, 1916 – 2 September 2004) was a Greek film actress. She appeared in 108 films between 1951 and 1996. She was born in Larissa, Greece, and died in Athens. She was a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre. She made his stage debut in 1936 in the play Before Sunset by Gerhard Hauptmann, which was staged at the National Theatre. She played dozens of roles, mainly in the classical repertoire. The most important of these were the roles of Queen Margaret in Richard III, the goddess Athena in Iphigenia, Atossa in The Persians, Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, Goneril in King Lear, the nurse in Medea, Antigone in Oedipus at Colonus, Tecmissa in Ajax, Sarah in The Sacrifice of Abraham, Roncalina in The King, etc. She had excelled in cinema in exceptional roles, with wonderful acting skills, embodying the simplicity of women of the popular classes, such as Bitter Bread, Little City, The Lake of Desire, etc. In most of the films she participated in, she played the mother of the protagonists. On television, the role of Kambouritsa remained characteristic, which she performed in the series Christ is Crucified Again in the 1970s. In addition, she participated in the dubbing of some cartoons. Specifically, she gave her voice to the witch from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Lady Klossa from the film Robin Hood. In 1991, Eleni Zafeiriou's book entitled What Should I Remember First, Mother, was published by Odos Panos Publications. She died at the People's Hospital of Athens after a battle with successive strokes and was buried at the Chalandri Cemetery in a close family circle.
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From Jerusalem with love
Martha is locked up in a mental hospital by her own husband, who covets her fortune. At some point, ...
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The steps of life
At the top of his class, a diligent architecture student, and son of a poor bouzouki player dreams o...
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Miss Manager
The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical of...
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A Girl in Black
Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian...
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Lily of the Harbor
Captain Giakoumis makes the big decision to forsake the sea and live peacefully close to his wife an...
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A Matter of Dignity
A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm ...
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Sky
During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad ...
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Lieutenant Natassa
The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the...
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The Auntie from Chicago
Charilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises h...
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Wake up Vassili
Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often - ...
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Mrs. Midwife
The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village....
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The cry of truth
A young woman who lost her husband five years ago to a naval tragedy in the seas of Indochina does n...
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The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee s...
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Groom from London
Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who...
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The Trip
This film is a social comment of the times, exploring issues that centre around relationships and wh...
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The Decline
A weak before her lady-killer lover, a blond diva breaks up with the arrogant libertine to be with a...
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The Mistress of the Plain
A sweet and rich girl loves a poor shepherd and thus rejects the marriage proposals of a rich man. H...
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Nomos 4000
Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a cl...
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I Love Only You
A poor and refined water fisherman, Zafeiris Kassis (Nikos Xanthopoulos), who was invited by the bar...
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Men Know How to Love
A delicious and understated countryman, Anna, leaves for the capital to study. He's hitchhiking on t...
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Bitter Bread
A poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in...
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A woman's sacrifice
A wealthy young man with a bright future, Andreas, finishes the Polytechnic at a time when the lovel...
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The Avenue of Hate
An unconscious driver fatally injures a woman and leaves her helpless to die. The victim was the wif...
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The Seal of God
After many years of working at sea, Andreas returns to his island in order to clear his dead father'...
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Jenny Jenny
Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to ...
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Face to Face with Death
Seven months after the declaration of the Greco-Italian War, a volunteer nurse and a small group of ...
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The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his fath...
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For Honor and for Love
Reserve Second Lieutenant Christos Kladis is absent without leave from his unit when he learns that ...
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The Unknown
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A Man with a Conscience
A freighter leaves the one she loves and goes to Germany to raise money to get married. When she ret...
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Slum, my love
A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when ...
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Humbled And Dejected
Manousos is the biggest child of a poor and crowded family living in the province. After finishing h...
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I lived a monk without love
A talented young musician, Petros Apostolou, arrives in Athens and soon manages to record his first ...
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Egoism
A spoiled girl, Maria, does not care about anyone but herself and her good-natured. She relates erot...
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The Lady and the Tramp
Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even wan...
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Dead City
A young painter returns to his hometown, Mystras, where he falls in love with the daughter of a fami...
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Love and Blood
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment a...
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The Refugee
The adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was ...
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We despised My Sweetness
To preserve his mother and sister, Michalis works at the port of Piraeus. His sister falls in love w...
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Open Sea
On an island in the Aegean, a young girl, when he learns of the authoritarian father that is illegit...
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Astrapogiannos
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the en...
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Hours of love, hours of war
Towards the end of the war, Eleni meets the rebel Kostas, who is being pursued by the Germans. One n...
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My Bitter Love
A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother...
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A Woman's Past
A nightclub singer is forced to shoot her ex-boyfriend, who has escaped from prison and is blackmail...
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The Heart of a Tramp
Shortly before his father dies, Nikos, as the eldest son, promises to help his twin brother Andreas ...
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The Acacia Road
An honest and sensitive girl who lives with her grandmother, Lena Petri, believes that the man she l...
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Unfair curse
Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the we...
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The Lagoon of Desire
Miranda, the rich and spoiled daughter of an Athenian businessman, accompanies her father to Messolo...
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Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
The heroic Souli have managed to repel the asker of Ali Pasha and his brave Malamos Dragon sends his...
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I'm not selling my heart
Unexpectedly, a railroad worker falls in love with his co-worker's sister, unbeknownst to him that h...
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Sometimes even the strong cry
A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose h...
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The Lake of Sighs
Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governe...
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Hearts in the storm
A mother fights tooth and nail to get her child back from an orphanage. She left him there when the ...
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The Immigrant
A young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed to ...
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Venus the girl who hurt
Shortly after the Gorgopotamos bridge was blown up, Loukas and Christoforos, two Cypriot students st...
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The Devastated
The honest laborer falls into disfavour and is undermined by his factory's son because they both lov...
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Wrecks Of Life
Foula is kicked out of her father's house when the doctor who loved her leaves her, and she ends up ...
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Soldiers Without Uniform
A resistance fighter, trying to escape the German blockade, takes refuge in a house where a mother l...
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