Mihalis Giannatos
Birthday: 1941-07-11
Place of Birth: Constantinople, Turkey
Biography: Michalis Giannatos (Greek: Μιχάλης Γιαννάτος; 11 July 1941 – 17 September 2013), alternatively spelled as Michael Yannatos, was a Greek actοr. Ηe was born in (Istanbul), Turkey. He left the city for Greece in 1964 during the long expulsion of Istanbul Greeks. He studied in Konstantinos Demopoulos' school of drama and first appeared as a professional actor in Georgios Zervoulakos' film Oi stigmatismenoi (Greek: Οι στιγματισμένοι) in 1966. When still a student, he participated in the theatrical play Capetan Michalis (Greek: Καπετάν Μιχάλης) next to Manos Katrakis. During his long cinematic career, he appeared in close to 100 films, television series and plays. He was a regular in Theodoros Angelopoulos films since he was one of the director's favorite actors. After Megalexandros (Greek: Μεγαλέξανδρος) in 1981, Angelopoulos was always calling him to play in his movies. He was fluent in five languages; Greek, Turkish, French, Italian and Spanish. Due to that, he appeared in many international productions, including Midnight Express, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Munich and more.
Movies
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love ...
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Orpheus Descending
Eurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and Eurydic...
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Pretty Smart
In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the ...
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Munich
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...
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Τράνζιτο
An extreme passion that overturns the balance and changes the life course of a woman. Anna is a succ...
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The Suspended Step of the Stork
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappea...
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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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A Touch of Spice
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfath...
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Caution, Danger!
A brutal father, shaped by the right-wing deep state, forces his two sons and daughter into deadly a...
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Misunderstanding
Dimitris Lembessis gets out of prison, pays his friend Stratos a visit and kills him. With Ilias he ...
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My Family and Other Animals
Escaping the dreary wet weather of 1930s England, an eccentric family uproot and ship themselves to ...
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The Flower of the Lake
1900, Kastoria, Western Macedonia. Greeks, Turks, Jews, and other nationalities live together under ...
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The Weeping Meadow
The first part of an incomplete trilogy telling the story of the greek people. The film begins in 19...
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Someone Else's America
This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is ...
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Alexander the Great
Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them fo...
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The Beekeeper
Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the...
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Tha...
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The Wind
Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the iso...
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To the Inn
Zissos and Apostolos are two Greeks living in a city in the Ottoman East in the early 20th century. ...
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Kata lathos astynomikos
The classic comedy, Alekos Sakellarios, Christos Giannakopoulos, "Ilias the 16th", which was perform...
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Bordello
Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of Frenc...
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Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers be...
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Dictator calls Thanasis
The adventures of a photographer, who undertook to take a photographs of exiled dictator from South ...
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Carefree... Nut
In this color comedy Thanasis trying for years to leave illegally for America to make his life becau...
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Voyage to Cythera
An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the st...
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Thanasis in the land of the cuff
The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Col...
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The Wicked World of Thanasis
The film presents seven short stories of everyday madness: parking in Athens. Thanasis, the soccer r...
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The Charlatan
An immigrant in Germany works hard to support his father and sister, who live in Greece. When he is ...
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The Man Who Ran a Lot
Thanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time and th...
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A Walk in the Sun
Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has l...
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1922
Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through ...
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Eternity and a Day
Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing ...
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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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Taste from Greece
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece....
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Anna's Summer
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece....
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Ulysses' Gaze
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of hi...
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The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha
On 29 January 1993 eighty prisoners escaped from an Athens prison. Well, in actual fact one convict ...
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Midnight Express
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...
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The Bubble
Makis , a man with difficulties in the stock market, falls for Roula , who is the mistress of a big ...
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Elias of the 16th Precinct follows three friends – Elias, Thomas and Vangelis – who face considerabl...
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Bouzanka à la... Greek
A Naive man from the countryside, affected by the famous Italian cine star Lado Bouzanka and his lad...
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Kamikazi, agapi mou
Stathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music. They ar...
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The Street Smarts
Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the gu...
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Hamos sto Aigaleo City
Tamtakos has a goat, Sardanafalos, and exploits its reproduction with the goats of the area. However...
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The Bleeding Statues
A group of minors escape from a reformatory and lock themselves in a museum on an island, threatenin...
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O efialtis
Dimitris Apostolou is a successful lawyer and former minister. He lives peacefully with his wife and...
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Alexandros and Aishe
A Christian boy and a Muslim girl fall in a forbidden love in the town of Komotini. They decide to e...
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The Serpent of Death
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it....
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A Madhouse Named "Hellas"
Thanasis lives in today's conditions, where Greece is a madhouse. A police sergeant after many years...
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Trip to the Capital
Manolis finishes his military service and stays in the capital, at his uncle's house (Kostas Kazakos...
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Filming Under Pressure
A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina....
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Opa!
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time....
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Skipper Straad
A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take...
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The Time Traveller
An astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island....
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Master of the Shadows
Shadow puppetry is not only part of the heritage of East Asia; Greece had its own traditional form o...
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