Manos Katrakis
Birthday: 1908-08-14
Place of Birth: Kastelli Kissamou, Crete, Greece
Biography: Emmanuel "Manos" Katrakis (Greek: Εμμανουήλ (Μάνος) Κατράκης; 14 August 1908 – 3 September 1984) was a Greek actor of theater and film. Along with actor/director Kostas Leloudas, he acted in his first movie To Lavaro tou '21 in 1928. He later performed in the Ethniko Theatro (the National Theatre) in 1931. During the 1930s, he continued acting in theatrical plays (he was friends with the maestro Dimitris Mitropoulos). He married Anna Lori in 1943. He took part in the resistance as a member of EAM/ELAS[citation needed] and after refusing to sign a declaration of repentance during the Greek Civil War of 1946–49, he was exiled to Makronisos, along with such other well-known figures as Yiannis Ritsos, Nikos Koundouros, Mikis Theodorakis and Thanasis Veggos. In the 1950s he returned to Athens from Makronisos but there was little acting work. He was handed both small and big roles in plays and films. In 1954, he married his third and last wife named Linda Alma (real name Eleni Malioufa). Shortly before his death, he filmed his last and best movie Taxidi sta Kythira, the Journey to Kythera/Kythira, with director Theo Angelopoulos.
Movies
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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The Red Lanterns
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor....
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Antigone
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having tw...
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Electra
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king c...
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Synoikia to Oneiro
A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there a...
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The Protectors
Up against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm painter de...
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The Magic City
A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to m...
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Brother Anna
Andreas, nephew of the abbot of the Monastery of Dionysios, who died eight years previously, arrives...
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True Love
It is the third film in a row of the type that much later on was called "fustanella (Greek kilt)", f...
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Marinos Kontaras
Marinos Kontaras, a pirate in the Aegean, falls in love and abducts beautiful Lemonia....
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The Trial of the Judges
A true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant acqui...
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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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Visibility Zero
Angelos Kreouzis (Nikos Kourkoulos) survives a shipwreck and reveals to the committee in charge that...
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Crazy Blood
The adventures of a very beautiful young Cretan, who because of the beauty of the suffering of all w...
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Blood on the Land
Two rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek hom...
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Bad, Cold, and Cantankerous
Financially hard-pressed, a good-hearted coffee-shop owner asks his twin brother and famous actor fo...
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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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Concert for Machine Guns
Athens, shortly before the outbreak of World War II and an Army General Staff official, Niki (Jenny ...
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I blame the People
A new, ambitious prosecutor undertakes a great trial for a murder trial but things get very confused...
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The Jungle of Cities
Athens, 1964. A police reporter, Nikos Avgeris, has the journalistic mission to cover a suspected ca...
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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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Rebels Of The Cities
A Middle East allied Force commander, Themis, parachutes in occupied Greece to organize a sabotage i...
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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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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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Abuse of authority
A police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a morphine. As...
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The Exodus of Messolongi
The last days of the historic siege of Messolonghi. The film depicts the whole situation that prevai...
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The years of the storm
The years of the storm are Greek historical - dramatic - adventurous film of 1984, directed and dire...
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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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The Roundup
A summer night in 1944 in Kokkinia, Kosmas, a black marketeer, is out with his friends before he is ...
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Refugee Girl on the Run
After the death of her kind stepfather and Pontian Greek refugee, a young woman arrives in Athens 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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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 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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Tears for Electra
Intent on hurting herself, a beautiful but desperate daughter crashes her car on the day of her moth...
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Story of a Lifetime
Targeted for her beauty and pilloried by members of her own village, a poor and orphaned young woman...
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The Dangerous
Marinos, Nikos, and Leonidas, along with the tentibossa Sofi, form a small gang that engages in car ...
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Treason Avenue
A prisoner of war who escaped from Albania claims to be a major in the Greek army named Alexandros V...
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With Fear and Passion
An incorruptible examiner finds the real culprit of a brutal homicide and tries to release his wrong...
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Innocent or Guilty
Petros, one of Greece's best athletes, decides to end his life with the help of his beloved wife Ann...
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The Cannon and the Nightingale
A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2...
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Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927
A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 19...
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The Murderess
An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). ...
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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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The Raid of the Aegean
Captain Alexis Komninos manages to escape from the Germans, with the help of the abbot Prudence arri...
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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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Eva
Young Antinoos is on vacation on an island where he meets a seductive woman, Eva, who is having a mi...
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So Many Dreams on the Streets
Two ambitious young employees land a job at the small store of an avaricious man, intending to stay ...
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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
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I will turn my heart to stone
In a mountain village, a dying woman reveals a secret to the priest and entrusts him with her two ch...
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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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Τι κι αν γεννήθηκα φτωχός
The poor daughter of a once-famous musician sees her world turn upside down when she gets fired, and...
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With you forever
A worker, engaged to the owner of the factory where he works, at his mother's request, begins a rela...
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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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Heartbreak
Dimitris Dalikis was the owner of a bank abroad. However, he went bankrupt and returned to Greece wi...
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A Dream of Passion
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the...
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Aliki the Dictator
A young woman arrives in Athens with her dog after the death of her father, the head of a bouzouki b...
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Makarios, I megali poreia
Biographical documentary on the life of the Cypriot leader, through his personal narrative. The diff...
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