Dimitris Poulikakos
1942 (83 года)He became known for his appearances in films and television series from the 1970s to the 1990s. Main appearances: Sloths of the Fertile Valley (1978), Glue Harp (1982), Dracula of the Exarchies (1983), BIOS + state (1987), Made In Greece (1987), The meteoric step of the stork (1991), Female Company (1999), Soapstone (1995) etc. His main television appearances are in the series The Arbitrary (1989 - 1991), The Men and the Not in the episode "In the Name of the Man" in the second season (1994-1995) where he plays the head prisoner in the prison, Two Strangers (1997 ), Seven deadly mothers-in-law (2008) et al.
He is considered one of the main representatives of Greek rock. The record of Metaforai Ekdromai Mitsos is the forerunner of the Greek rock 'n roll discography. His concert at the end of the 1970s in Zografou is a milestone in Greek rock music history.
Hippie-Hippie Matala! Matala!
Giorgos Varelas
Dimitris Poulikakos
It was in the 60s when Matala, a poor, fishing village in southern Crete, gained worldwide fame with reports in the international press and became the “controversial point” of local society, causing the wrath of the church and the intervention of the military regime in Athens. Hippies from all over the world lived in the famous caves of Matala, forming a unique international community, whose loose and alternative lifestyles provoked the morals of the time. Who were these young people? What brought them to Matala? What was their relationship with the locals? Did orgies really take place? The answers are given by the – nowadays almost septuagenarian – protagonists of the story: Arn and Elmar from Germany, the British sisters Shirley and Pam, Greek musician Dimitris Poulikakos, grandma Alexandra and grandma Katerina, and George, a poor fisherman and a friend of Joni Mitchell from way back.
Hippie-Hippie Matala! Matala!
Λούφα και Παραλλαγή
Nikos Perakis
Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd...
Loafing and Camouflage
The Murderess
Costas Ferris
Maria Alkeou, Natalia Alkaiou
An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.
The Murderess
Μια Ζωή Σε Θυμάμαι Να Φεύγεις
Frieda Liappa
Nena Mendi, Dimitris Poulikakos
A love story, set in Athens of 1977, between a young woman, who works as a journalist, and a stage actor, who has decided to abandoned theatre. The film borrows its title from a hit by singer Mitropanos, “I remember you leaving, all my life”. Politics, the Left, artistic impasses of a creator, theatre, the relationships between men and women; with the man always abandoning the girl, as the title of the film (and the song) suggests.
I Remember You Leaving All the Time
Ο Μελισσοκόμος
Theo Angelopoulos
Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi
Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to take up the occupation of his ancestors as a beekeeper. Over the course of his road trip he visits the sites and friends of his childhood, hoping to gather the pollen of his past, but instead meets and becomes obsessed with a young hitchhiker who represents the empty hedonism of the present.
The Beekeeper
Idlers of the Fertile Valley
Nikos Panayotopoulos
Olga Karlatos, George Dialegmenos
In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one wants to do much about leaving, and he does in fact cross the front threshold of the house with his lover, who is also the maid. However, before he has gotten very far, he is very tired, and goes to sleep where he stands. One of the sons outdoes them all by sleeping literally all the time. He is not in a coma -- he is just very, very lazy and tired. Some critics have viewed this film as a sharply delineated social satire.
The Idlers of the Fertile Valley
Donusa
Angeliki Antoniou
André Hennicke, Hristina Papamihou
Donusa is a small island in the Aegean, visited by the mainline ship once a week. One winter day a young German photographer, Stefan, arrives and soon feels strangely attracted to a local girl called Eleni. The stranger’s presence works as a catalyst shedding light on Donusa’s conventions.
Donusa
Living Dangerously
Nikos Perakis
Giorgos Kimoulis, Dimitris Kalivokas
A gifted electrician, Michalis Karamanos works for Greek Telecommunications Organization and it seems that he is the only one who hasn't been completely absorbed by the corrupt and all-devouring system. Acting as a member of the revolutionary organization Constitutional Struggle, which is fighting against the unpopular policy of the government, he connects the computer of the director of OTE to an explosive device. He threatens to destroy the telecommunications of the country if he is not allowed to broadcast on television his revolutionary message during the broadcast of an important football game. The Authorities, thinking that he has gone crazy, try to bring him around using his old friends from the army, whom they pick up one by one as intermediaries. This is a situation comedy with excellent, mature plot development, plenty of suspense as well as masterful criticism of sociopolitical reality.
Living Dangerously
Made in Greece
Panos Angelopoulos
Harry Klynn, Yula Gavala
Giannis Giannakis, released from psychiatric hospital after many years, decides to return home to his parents. On his way back he slowly discovers that the outside world is crazier than he thought - and starts to question whether he'd be better off back in the psychiatric ward.
Made in Greece
Τα παιδιά της Χελιδόνας
Costas Vrettakos
Alekos Alexandrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou
A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that began with the Civil War. The two men’s search is interrupted when a key person refuses to speak
The Children of the Swallow
The Blue Villa
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dimitri de Clercq
Fred Ward, Arielle Dombasle
The Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by the ghost-like return of a young man, who mysteriously disappeared after the killing of a young Eurasian woman.
The Blue Villa
Happy Day
Pantelis Voulgaris
Zorz Sarri, Giorgos Moshidis
A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled prisoners. The everyday life of the people who live there consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead.
Happy Day
