Koula Agagiotou
Acting
Biography
Koula Agagiotou (Greek: Κούλα Αγαγιώτου; 1915 – 25 October 2006) was a Greek actress. She is probably best known for her role in the Greek sitcom To Retire. Agagiotou's real name was Angeliki. She appeared in more than fifty films, including a well-received performance in the 1971 film Evdokia. Her last appearance was in To Retire. Agagiotou was married and had a daughter. Agagiotou made her film debut in 1951. She mostly appeared in dramas, and during the 1980s she participated in cult comedies such as Kamikazi Agapi Mou alongside Stathis Psaltis.
Born: January 1, 1915
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Known For
Antigone
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...
A Tank on My Bed
Kostas is a law-abiding citizen, a quite man living with his mother, his sister Kaiti and his younger brother, Giorgos, who is a student. He works day and night at his kiosk, living to his bone the everyday reality and troubles of the period. He is in love with Eleni and wants to marry her, but he has to wait until Kaiti is married to Leonidas, her extremely conservative fiancé. The military coup of April 1967 forces Kostas to take the side of the winners, hanging, each time, the picture of their most powerful leader, while Giorgos joins a resistance group that sets up bombs. Giorgos’ actions puts Kostas in big trouble.
Bouboulina
The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in Spetses and to participate herself, despite her double widowhood. In the struggle for the liberation of Greece, she gives all her property and fighting along with her lads.
Of Fortune The Written
Accompanied by his feathery associate, a wandering fortune-teller predicts the fates of passers-by to make a living. He encounters penniless lovers, incurable romantics, and unscrupulous con artists. But who knows what tomorrow holds?
Evdokia
A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Her profession, however, is a barrier for their relationship. They try to stay together and overcome their inner conflicts, but the social environment crushes them.
Madame Mayor
On the square of a village on a beautiful greek island there are two competing tavernas. One belongs to Aspasia and the other to Anargyros, who is a former Sergeant Major of the Greek Army. Their constant conflict doesn’t affect their children, who love and meet each other in secret. The local elections creates a new battlefield for the two taverna-owners, as they both run for office and promise everything to everyone.
Never on Sunday
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
The Penthouse
Doctor Z-Vengos
A blunderer barber ends after a misunderstanding to pretend doctor. However the patients problems aren't medical nature but personally so he helps them.
The Roundup
A summer night in 1944 in Kokkinia, Kosmas, a black marketeer, is out with his friends before he is arrested by the German patrol. The Germans push him to turn in people from the Resistance, or they will execute him.
Filmography
as Σοφία Σοφιανού
as Toula Delikoupa-Livadioti
as Domna Sgourou
as Mrs. Kazantzi
as Fani Papakosta
as Δωροθέα Παπαδήμα
as Maria
as Aspasia Markopoulou
as Meropi
as Μίνα
as Kaiti Zanitou
as Nana Provata
as Aunt Maria
as people
as Prostitute
as Koula Prokopi
as Zizi
as Landlady
as Dionissia Thanassea
as Koko