Costas Messaris
Biography
Kostas Messaris is one of the most experienced and renowned Greek actors and directors of theater, cinema and television. He participated in emblematic films of Greek cinema, such as "Face to Face" (1966), "The Island of Aphrodite" (1969) alongside Katina Paxinou, and "Thiasos" (1975) by Theodoros Angelopoulos.
Known For & Full Filmography10 Titles
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fails and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their prisoner.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Grigoris Staktopoulos
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Mimis' friend
A provincial café owner, Mimis, abandons his village in Chalkidiki and comes to Athens in search of a better life. He pretends to be a tough guy, a know-it-all, and behaves like an “antisocial”. With the help of a friend of his from the army, Aristeidis, he tries to set up his own business. At the same time, he falls in love with a seamstress, Toula, who is the sister of Aristeidis’ wife. Then comes the wedding, the everyday obligations, and Mimis is forced, with great resentment, to work as a waiter to make ends meet. When he get fired, however, his relationship with Nitsa is put to the test.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Dimitris Emmanouil
Penniless and without a future, an English teacher agrees to tutor a pampered woman, only to become enmeshed in a strange reality and a downward spiral of desire and illusion, guilt and self-contempt. Will the ugly truth set him free?
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Rigas Fokas
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.