Vangelis Kazan

Vangelis Kazan

Birthday: 1938-01-01

Place of Birth: Nafplio, Greece

Biography: Vangelis Kazan (Greek: Βαγγέλης Καζάν) (1936 – 10 March 2008) was a Greek character actor. 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 Athens.

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The Travelling Players
The Travelling Players

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

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The Thief
The Thief

Short film about a pickpocket. A police officer catches a pickpocket after some illegal activity on ...

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The Drunk of the Harbor
The Drunk of the Harbor

A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers...

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Landscape in the Mist
Landscape in the Mist

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany....

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Days of '36
Days of '36

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government ...

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The Girl with Golden Hair
The Girl with Golden Hair

Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of m...

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Girls in the Sun
Girls in the Sun

A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece....

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Lysistrata
Lysistrata

Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting t...

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Παραλάβατε διορισμόν
Παραλάβατε διορισμόν

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May
May

The days of May 1936 in Thessaloniki and the events that led to the bloody clashes between the tobac...

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Όσο υπάρχει έρωτας
Όσο υπάρχει έρωτας

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The Colors of Iris
The Colors of Iris

A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early...

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Provocation
Provocation

Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was hi...

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The Hunters
The Hunters

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter wit...

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Treason
Treason

A Nazi officer arrives in occupied Athens in 1941 and falls in love with a Jewish girl, unaware of h...

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Ulysses' Gaze
Ulysses' Gaze

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of hi...

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Make Me A Woman
Make Me A Woman

A proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds ...

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Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες
Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες

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Jenny Jenny
Jenny Jenny

Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to ...

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Conflict of Emotions
Conflict of Emotions

A drug addict meets an aristocratic woman who married a criminal....

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The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
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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Slum, my love
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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The Woman Driver
The Woman Driver

Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, ...

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Ένας Υπέροχος Άνθρωπος
Ένας Υπέροχος Άνθρωπος

In the courthouse, the new lawyer, Nikos Moushouttis, represents the industrialist Orestis Valsamis,...

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Humbled And Dejected
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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Weak Spot
Weak Spot

During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a ...

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A Thief with Philotimo
A Thief with Philotimo

Reluctantly, an otherwise honest paterfamilias accepts his shady friend's proposition to start a car...

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Trouba '67
Trouba '67

A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals a...

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End of an Era
End of an Era

In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against th...

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The Man with the Carnation
The Man with the Carnation

The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back...

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A Law-Abiding Citizen
A Law-Abiding Citizen

A young man who grew up beneath the heavy shade of autocratic and avaricious mother, son Gregory, ha...

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The Cannon and the Nightingale
The Cannon and the Nightingale

A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2...

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Ti ehoun na doun ta matia mou
Ti ehoun na doun ta matia mou

Three friends reunite in Athens after struggling abroad. They think of a business idea but quickly r...

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Άγουρη Σάρκα
Άγουρη Σάρκα

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In the Vertigo of Sin
In the Vertigo of Sin

After the end of the war, a Nazi officer returns to Greece with the aim of recovering the hidden pro...

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The Other Stage
The Other Stage

Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angel...

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He And She
He And She

He is a pure child of nature. She comes from the sinful city. They find themselves together in unspo...

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Unfair curse
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 Iron Gate
The Iron Gate

In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the...

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Persecution
Persecution

We are in 1942, in the middle of the German Occupation, on an island opposite the coast of Asia Mino...

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The Killer
The Killer

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The Song Of Return
The Song Of Return

Two years after the establishment of the junta of the colonels, a resistance fighter leaves for Swed...

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The Greedy
The Greedy

The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father ...

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Η ανταρσία των 10
Η ανταρσία των 10

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The Lake of Sighs
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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The fate of the innocent
The fate of the innocent

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Get on Your Mark
Get on Your Mark

In Filiatra, a half deserted township of Messinia, the remaining farmers face a constant struggle to...

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O fakellos Polk ston aera
O fakellos Polk ston aera

Two parallel stories complement each other. The first recounts the investigation of a journalist and...

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Gamos sto Perithorio
Gamos sto Perithorio

An 80-year-old widower, Mr. Elias, goes to his village (Perithorio, where he had been president of t...

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Uphill
Uphill

Three students share their dreams for their future after school. Yanna is the moral compass of the f...

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Passion Beach
Passion Beach

Jason just arrived from Johanesburg and visits a deserted beach house, which belongs to his best fri...

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Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

Three girls try to enjoy to the fullest their carefree lives in Athens. However, they get mixed up i...

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Artesta
Artesta

A rich young man is in love with a dancer, whom she marries against the will of his parents....

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The Slave Girl
The Slave Girl

During the reign of Otto, the beautiful daughter of a local lord is kidnapped. Her fiancé tries to t...

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Hippocrates And Democracy
Hippocrates And Democracy

The father of medical in Kos, Hippocrates, believes that illnesses can be treated with medicines and...

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Οι νταντάδες
Οι νταντάδες

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The Wheel
The Wheel

The adventures of a car tire in the Attica region, in Greece. The tire was unexpectedly released fro...

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John the Violent
John the Violent

The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens....

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Kolasmenes Psyches sta Dichtya tis Idonis
Kolasmenes Psyches sta Dichtya tis Idonis

Tony Kouroglou responds to a job ad for working in a sea-side hotel. Hitchhiking his way to the hote...

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Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα

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Κατρακύλισμα... στο βούρκο
Κατρακύλισμα... στο βούρκο

The wealthy and spoiled son of a successful industrialist decides to play with an honest, love-smitt...

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Crooked Deeds
Crooked Deeds

Dimitris, a poor painter who feels deeply disappointed in his life, leaves his wife and begins to wa...

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Abduction
Abduction

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Ένα παιδί χωρίς όνομα
Ένα παιδί χωρίς όνομα

After their father's death, the vicious and drunken eldest son, Angelos, kicks out of the house his ...

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Ματωμένη γη
Ματωμένη γη

The daughter of a powerful husband in a mountainous village in Greece is being forced to marry a wea...

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Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος
Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος

A poor young man, who bears the surname of a rich shipowner, meets and falls in love with a rich hei...

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Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα

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Horafa family
Horafa family

The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt ...

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Of Legend and Folk Tale
Of Legend and Folk Tale

A triptych film inspired by Peloponnesian folk tales: "The Changelings", "The Sinner", and "The Anti...

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