#alekos alexandrakis

[gemsofgreece]

Iconic Greek cinematic couples

Aliki Vouyouklaki - Dimitris Papamichail. Vouyouklaki and Papamichail first met in drama school and they mutually disliked each other. They developed a love-hate relationship until Papamichail proposed to her on stage. Their marriage was extremely turbulent, competitive and often violent. They had a son and they broke up badly after ten years. They both went on with their lives but Vouyouklaki died aged only 62 from cancer. In the last years of her life, Vouyouklaki and Papamichail had grown closer again as platonic friends, regretful and trying to work out the evil that had been done during their marriage. A devastated Papamichail visited her at her deathbed, imploring her to rise and get away together. He would visit her grave regularly.

Jenny Karezi - Alekos Alexandrakis. The most elegant couple of Greek cinema. While they played many times together, they were never a couple in real life. Alexandrakis was a smooth womanizer, Karezi preferred longterm relationships.

Kostas Voutsas - Martha Karayanni. While Voutsas' looks might at times appear unassuming due to his comedic roles, he and the sex-on-legs actress / dancer Karayanni were both legendary players. They were good friends for life but never had a relationship, which was baffling to everybody in Greece. They have both stated that the only reason they were never together was that they never managed to be both single at the same time!

Maro Kontou - Lambros Konstantaras. They played in 12 movies together! While all of Greece was convinced they were a couple, they were never a thing. Kontou revealed that even though they worked well together, their personalities were incompatible in real life. Kontou claimed she didn’t know whether Konstantaras had ever been interested in her, but she reasoned that even if he was, he was a very intelligent man who would not make a move since Kontou clearly wasn’t interested.  EDIT: I have seen the photo a hundred times as I am preparing the post and it’s only in the hundredth time that I realised Konstantaras is holding a banana.

Zoe Laskari - Phaedon Georgitsis. Georgitsis has revealed he was always dazed by Laskari's beauty. His heart would beat very fast in all their romantic scenes. However, Laskari was unattainable and unavailable, as she was always very devoted to her real-life romantic partners. In the photo, the aforementioned Voutsas and Karayanni as guest stars.

Dimitris Horn - Ellie Lambeti. Both dramatic and mostly theatrical actors, renowned for their talent. They initially disliked each other but eventually developed a passionate love affair. They lived together for six years until they broke up. Neither revealed the reason of their break-up to anybody as they were both very serious and private people. However, they didn't speak to each other for years and they never played together again.

@Actors!Anon: As we say here in Greece, you are going to live many years because I had queued this post for today long before your ask! I will get to your question in specific soon.

[sundaynightfilms]

Stella, 1955

[aboutanancientenquiry]

A beautiful song of Mikis Theodorakis with Grigoris Bithikotsis, from the movie “Synoikia to Oneiro” (1961), with Alekos Alexandrakis as producer, director, and protagonist. The movie was about poverty and social problems in the Greece of the early 60′s. The (very pessimistic) lyrics of the song are of the poet Tasos Livaditis. “Synoikia to Oneiro” (”A Neighbourhood named the dream”) had serious problems with the government of that period (initially it has been banned, eventually only a censored, much truncated version has been played in the theaters, under supervision of the police and often physical attacks against the viewers by pro-government right-wing organizations).

From the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp_dwpJbluEP1uqXJATDasA

[gemsofgreece]

Excuse me for intruding but I find it incredibly funny how this landed on a blog named Alabama death cult. Anyway, mustache-less Alexandrakis for the win.

alekos alexandrakis but only with a mustache

i could see this but like where are you finding these guys...

[theartistswar]

Melina Merkouri and Alekos Alexandrakis in Stella (1955) directed by Michael Kakogiannis

[ars-historia-est]

Great Greek actor Alekos Alexandrakis,in his role as Vassily Karlovich Junkermann,in the extremely popular 1976 television series “Junkermann” (”Γιούγκερμαν”),based on the novel of the same title by author M. Karagatsis.

The series is sadly lost today,with only some photos and half an episode’s worth of footage remaining.

[epestrefe]

Αλέκος Αλεξανδράκης και Μελίνα Μερκούρη στη “Στέλλα” (1955)

σε σκηνοθεσία Μιχάλη Κακογιάννη

[rurbanistique]

Αφίσα για την 'Συνοικία το Όνειρο' του Αλέκου Αλεξανδράκη (1961), απαγορευμένη απο τον τότε κυβερνήτη Κ. Καραμανλη, επειδή απεικόνιζε την εξαθλίωση της χώρας, ενάντια στα σχέδιά του να παρουσιάσει μια ιλουστρασιόν Ελλάδα που θα προσέλκυε επενδυτές. Μουσική του Μίκη Θεοδωράκη. Film poster for 'A Neighborhood named "The Dream" (dir. Alekos Alexandrakis, 1961). Music by Mikis Theodorakis.

[theageofthemovies]

STELLA - (Michael Cacoyannis, 1955).

Some stills of dramatic "woman movie" "Stella" (Michael Cacoyannis, 1955), a fine Greek adaptation of "Carmen" magnificently acted by Melina Mercouri in the title role. Here Mercouri, in one of her most congenial parts (see also the most transgressive "Pote tin Kyriaki" (Dassin, 1960) is a free woman, a performer who hates marriage,  dislikes the conventional social rules and is unavoidably victimised by the men who loves her but deny her freedom. So, when she falls in love with a handsome man who wishes her to settle down and abandon her reckless ways, a dramatic conflict is going to explode... The story of a rebellious young Bouzouki performer named Stella (Mercouri) who abhors marriage, defies the rules of conventional morality, and pays for a freedom denied her by the men who love her. She must must choose between two lifestyles when she finds herself hopelessly in love with a young football player who wishes her to settle down and abandon her reckless ways. Writer and director Cacoyannis' (A GIRL IN BLACK, A MATTER OF DIGNITY) second feature won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1956. Based on the play by Iakovos Kabanellis. It is my opinion that this film is the best film ever created in Greece. This a story of Greek female singer who is full of passion and despises any social or moral "must". She is living her life like nobody else. Until our anti-hero Stella meets her destiny in the face of Miltos, a man who will try anything in order to make her his. Of course, a passion can have only one tragic end. The direction of Michalis Cacoyiannis is great and Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Fountas and Alekos Alexandrakis (the main characters in the movie) are some of the best actors that the Greek cinema and theatre has created. Also the music is made by an Oscar winner composer, named Manos Hadjidakis, and it reflects all the emotions that the actors have. If you can not understand what Mediterranean passion means, see this film, and you will. 

[babaalexander]

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[nnikkoss]

Αλεκος Αλεξανδρακης - Alekos Alexandrakis

[gemsofgreece]

Still of Alekos Alexandrakis and Jenny Karezi in the movie Δεσποινίς Διευθυντής (Miss Manager), 1964.

[aboutanancientenquiry]

Three beautiful songs from the album “Lipotaktes” of Mikis Theodorakis (1962), with the voice of Theodorakis himself. The lyrics are of his brother Yannis. Bouzouki plays the great Manolis Chiotis. The video includes scenes from the movie “Synoikia to Oneiro” of Alekos Alexandrakis (1961), for which Theodorakis has written the music.

From the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCqlCyWSxSmlwVyzG5NjBqQ

[au-miel]

Το Φως Που Σβήνει (Fading Light, Vasilis Douros / 2000)

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Αλέκος Αλεξανδράκης Alekos Alexandrakis