Manos Katrakis — Actor (16)

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The Protectors (1973)
Οι προστάτες IMDb TMDB
other title: Οι προστάτες
Up against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm painter decides to protest by bricking up the windows of his house. Everyone wants to get their hands on his legacy. Will the protectors succeed?

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Refugee Girl on the Run (1969)
Κυνηγημένη προσφυγοπούλα IMDb TMDB
other title: Κυνηγημένη προσφυγοπούλα
After the death of her kind stepfather and Pontian Greek refugee, a young woman arrives in Athens to track down her biological father who is missing since the blood-drenched Pontic genocide in Asia Minor. Will she ever find him?

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A woman's sacrifice (1969)
Η θυσία μιας γυναίκας IMDb TMDB
other title: Η θυσία μιας γυναίκας
A wealthy young man with a bright future, Andreas, finishes the Polytechnic at a time when the lovely Stella, the girl she is in love with, starts her studies at the University. He wants to get married, but his father has other plans in mind: to send him for postgraduate studies in Paris. Stella does not want to stand in the way of Andrea's career and future, and she sacrifices her own happiness to become that great architect. She suffers from their separation, but her pain softens her job: a psychologist, specialized in the treatment of delayed children, will dedicate her soul and body to her work. A few years later, thanks to Lina, who is surprised to learn that he is the daughter of Andreas, he will rejoin him and finally find happiness.

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The Refugee (1969)
Ο πρόσφυγας IMDb TMDB
other title: Ο πρόσφυγας
The adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was caused because of a childhood trauma. He remembers that he has a twin brother. When he discovers, he sees with surprise that his brother has become a successful lawyer, but who will draw him to court, accusing him of burglary.

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The Exodus of Messolongi (1966)
Η Έξοδος Του Μεσολογγίου IMDb TMDB
other title: Η Έξοδος Του Μεσολογγίου
The last days of the historic siege of Messolonghi. The film depicts the whole situation that prevailed in the city after the Turkish siege for many months, and tells the courageous effort of its defenders who are attempting a heroic and desperate exodus.

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With you forever (1966)
Μαζί σου για πάντα IMDb TMDB
other title: Μαζί σου για πάντα
A worker, engaged to the owner of the factory where he works, at his mother's request, begins a relationship with a poor girl, who is ill and will soon die. His fiancée discovers his double life and reveals it to the sick girl, who ends up in the hospital.

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Persecution (1964)
Διωγμός WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Διωγμός
We are in 1942, in the middle of the German Occupation, on an island opposite the coast of Asia Minor, where a mature woman, Katerina Rodeli, cares for a wounded resistance fighter named Kanaris. In her memory, there are images of the past, the panic of the Asia Minor catastrophe and especially the entrance of the tsets in her village. There she lost her three-year-old son, Konstantin, whom he never ceased to look for. However, the village's mackerel maharagrite handed it over to the Germans and, in the face of the danger, they were arrested along with the wounded and a boat ride on the Turkish coast to find themselves immediately enclosed in a refugee camp. His commander is a tough second lieutenant, Osen, who is bought by the English consulate of Izmir to transfer the fugitives to Egypt.

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The Trial of the Judges (1974)
Η Δίκη των Δικαστών IMDb TMDB
other title: Η Δίκη των Δικαστών
A true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant acquittal during the three men regency council, when king Othon of Greece was a minor. The cast of the film was enormous, with almost half of the theatrical people participating.

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Abuse of authority (1971)
Κατάχρησις Εξουσίας WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Κατάχρησις Εξουσίας / Abuse of Power
A police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a morphine. As a member of the Drug Enforcement Department, he tries to identify the head of a drug dealer gang. His unorthodox way of acting upsets his superiors, even though they allow him to continue his investigations. When the gang discovers that he is a police officer, he makes him a drug addict, but he manages to detoxify and eventually capture the gang's brain.

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The Jungle of Cities (1970)
Η Ζούγκλα των Πόλεων WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Η Ζούγκλα των Πόλεων / The City Jungle
Athens, 1964. A police reporter, Nikos Avgeris, has the journalistic mission to cover a suspected car crash that killed a senior state official. His investigation reveals that the victim was responsible for the financial control of a large building organization and that he was being used to cover the illegality of his administration. This organization had abused much of the money earmarked for the erection of homes for homeless war wounded, and is now very much annoyed by the revelations of Augustus. This is why they try to close his mouth, but he is not hurt and continues the investigation. Augustus reaches the end, revealing everything and clearing up yet another dirty affair.

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The Magic City (1955)
Μαγική Πόλις WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 魔域 / Μαγική Πόλις …
A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because of debts, he gets tangled up in smuggling. His morals are tested and he tries to find a way out.

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The Red Lanterns (1963)
Τα Κόκκινα Φανάρια WikiData IMDb TMDB
Βασίλης Γεωργιάδης actor: Τζένη Καρέζη / Γιώργος Φούντας …
other title: Lanternes rouges / 红灯笼 …
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.

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Treason (1964)
Προδοσία WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kostas Manoussakis actor: Πέτρος Φυσσούν / Μάνος Κατράκης …
other title: La Trahison / Προδοσία …
A Nazi officer arrives in occupied Athens in 1941 and falls in love with a Jewish girl, unaware of her true identity.