
Genica Athanasiou
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Genica Athanasiou.
Born: January 3, 1897
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Known For

Misdeal
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.

The Lighthouse Keepers
In a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid dog while his father looks on helplessly. Thwarted by a raging sea, they are prisoners of the lighthouse. In a rustic Brittany village, a young bride waits, unaware of the tragedy.

The Seashell and the Clergyman
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Saint Joan the Maid
This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc'. The comparison is unfair: Dreyer was an artist, but director Marco de Gastyne certainly proved himself a distinguished craftsman, and his emphasis on the Maid of Orléans early life in Domrémy serves as a picturesque, matching bookend to Dreyer's impassioned courtroom drama.

Don Quixote
Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.

Colomba
A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to avenge the death of their father.

Le Comte Kostia
Filmography
as The Maid
as Marie
as The Woman
as Zita (uncredited)