Vangelis Kazan
Acting
Biography
Vangelis Kazan (Greek: Βαγγέλης Καζάν) (1936 – 10 March 2008) was a Greek character actor. Kazan was born in Nafplion. His career in theater, cinema and television spanned for half a century. He repeatedly collaborated with Theo Angelopoulos and was awarded the Best Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1975 for his part in The Travelling Players. He died in Athens.
Born: January 1, 1938
Place of Birth: Nafplio, Greece
Known For
At the Campsite
The series evolves during a laid-back summer at a camping in Peloponesse, Greece. Takis is an entrepreneur who sets up and manages a campsite on a picturesque coast of the Peloponesse. He staffs the campsite with locals, including his cousin Mitsos who is a horse breeder and works as the riding instructor of the campsite. The series details the short-lived relations and interactions between campsite staff and guests, and especially the summer love of Mitsos with Samantha–an English tourist.
A Law-Abiding Citizen
A young man who grew up beneath the heavy shade of autocratic and avaricious mother, son Gregory, has lost initiative and the minimum footprint. The servility of his mother against his boss, which facilitates the solicitations of the latter to his sister, infuriates him. The fiancée, Soula, can not understand his sexual desires and his girlfriend, Julia, the only one that loves him really forced to abandon him. Gregory wonder with all this and rebels, but his rebellion brings him to the brink of madness. When you finally meet, forced to follow the commands of the mother and uncle ultraconservative so he marries the woman who suggest those.
Ti ehoun na doun ta matia mou
Three friends reunite in Athens after struggling abroad. They think of a business idea but quickly realise that not everything goes as planned. When they reach out to a lawyer friend for help, they find that we are all on our own.
The Iron Gate
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the most of the adventurism inspired in them by the post-war era and trying to make a life for themselves against the backdrop of the post-dictatorship conservative regime, the two heroes gradually lose their political conciousness and social identity and are led to ruin.
The Hunters
During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…
Landscape in the Mist
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
Η Αγάπη της Γάτας
Ulysses' Gaze
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
The Travelling Players
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.
Slum, my love
A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when she learns she is about to die.
Filmography
as Christos' Father
as Χάρης Ζαχαρόπουλος
as Ορέστης
as Aristeidis
as rural constable
as Λευτέρης Δημόπουλος
as Savvas
as Major Georgios Papadopoulos
as Pavlos
as Antonis
as Savvas
as Self
as Aegisthus
as (as Vangelis Kasan)
as Filipos
as Giorgos Koukkoulas
as Papoulas
as Investigator
as Andreas Dimopoulos
as Masia
as police inspector
as "Pregnant" Spartan "Woman"
as Loukas
as Police officer
as actor
as Receptionist
as Vagios
as Papadopoulos
as Kimon
as Sotiris
as Kassandris' assistant
as Savvas
as Stefanos
as Police detective