Birthday:
03-03-1957
(67 years)
Birthplace:
Thessaloniki, Greece
Biography
Themis Bazaka (Thessaloniki, March 3, 1957-) is a Greek theater, television and film actress.
Since the 1980s she has appeared in several well-known and notable films, such as Order! (1980). ).
On television she has appeared in the series, The Ancient Rust, The Minore of the Dawn, Rebetiko, Stone Years, Like the Crazy Birds, The Jersey with "9", Hotel Amore, The Tower of Moscow, Signature Priftis, Anatomy of a Crime, Women , Indivisible, Department of Morals , Silver Dinar , Earpickers , The Ridiculousness of It , Absent , Her and Me , A Night Like This , Like Sisters Red Circle , Taksim , The Women of Her Life , Run Away , The 10th Commandment , Marry Me all of ,I Miss You ,Only Two Days ,Wonderful Creatures ,Your Soul ,,Dark Sea ,Fire and Wind ,Milky Way The Witch
She has been awarded three times by the Thessaloniki Film Festival, twice for Supporting Actress for the films Rebetiko and The Acrobats of the Garden and with the Award for First Actress for her performance in the film The Stone Years. For this role, she also received an Honorable Mention from the Venice Film Festival.
Since the 1980s she has appeared in several well-known and notable films, such as Order! (1980). ).
On television she has appeared in the series, The Ancient Rust, The Minore of the Dawn, Rebetiko, Stone Years, Like the Crazy Birds, The Jersey with "9", Hotel Amore, The Tower of Moscow, Signature Priftis, Anatomy of a Crime, Women , Indivisible, Department of Morals , Silver Dinar , Earpickers , The Ridiculousness of It , Absent , Her and Me , A Night Like This , Like Sisters Red Circle , Taksim , The Women of Her Life , Run Away , The 10th Commandment , Marry Me all of ,I Miss You ,Only Two Days ,Wonderful Creatures ,Your Soul ,,Dark Sea ,Fire and Wind ,Milky Way The Witch
She has been awarded three times by the Thessaloniki Film Festival, twice for Supporting Actress for the films Rebetiko and The Acrobats of the Garden and with the Award for First Actress for her performance in the film The Stone Years. For this role, she also received an Honorable Mention from the Venice Film Festival.
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Umbilical
Act like Mother
event2021 star_border 2
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The story of a young woman's struggle to separate from her religious and superstitious upbringing. As she battles her traumatic past she discovers exactly how far she will go to reconcile her internalised doubts.
Avaton
event2023
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Mount Athos is a peninsula situated in Northeastern Greece, the home of 20 Christian Orthodox monasteries and the largest area on earth where access is reserved to men alone. Female animals are banned too, except for cats, songbirds and insects. Throughout the film women discuss a place they have no access to and their ideas and points of view interconnect and take us all the way to the forbidden land. Since the female duo that directs Avaton is unable to visit the peninsula, they decide to reconstruct Athos by using material filmed anywhere but there, animations and reworked archival material.
Rembetiko
Act like Andriana
event1985 star_border 7.2
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The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
Varieté
event1985 star_border 5
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An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
Ξένια
Act like Xenia
event1989 star_border 9.5
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A young French actor, Matthieu comes to Greece. He meets a pregnant Greek woman, Xenia, who leaves for Andalusia to give birth there. Car breakdowns, strikes and pure chance, all serve to unite them. They will make the trip together.
The City and the City
Act like Matika
event2022 star_border 3
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Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which the viewer experiences, aghast, the madness of humanity.
Acropol
Act like Rena
event1996 star_border 4.5
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1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ex-wonder-child of movies, who now runs an agency for extras. At first, Lakis is surprised by the prince's proposal, but finally decides to try his luck on the stage of the legendary theater.
Milky Way
Act like Maro
event2023
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Follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos.
Phoebe
Act like Phoebe's mother
event2024
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Having been recently discharged from rehab, 26-year-old Phoebe takes her young son on a road trip that will determine their future.
The Striker with Number 9
Act like Κική
event1988 star_border 5.7
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The story of a talented yet self-destructive soccer player in Greece.
Based on the novel of the same name by Menis Koumandareas, the film narrates the life and works of Vassilis Seretis, a young, unknown, poor, but talented and ambitious football player, who dreams of conquering the pitches. The hero is willing to give everything and suffer whatever it takes in order to conquer the football world. With his talent as his only weapon, he tries to define his destiny, on a route from Thessaloniki, to Volos and from there to Athens. With him, we taste the mud of the fields, the loneliness of the countryside, the "sold out" matches, but also the ephemeral glow of success. Pantelis Voulgaris signs a film that left an era, as, in addition to its original directorial perspective, it outlines the phenomenon of Greek football in a poetic and at the same time realistic way.
Real Life
Act like Mrs. Kalliga
event2004 star_border 4.9
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Aris, 27 years old, returns home after a long journey... His mother, an eccentric and lonely woman lives together with her secretary, Sylvia and her loyal gardener mute Christos. Her house is famous not only for its view in Acropolis but also for his pool: the deepest in Europe. Determined to leave behind his past and start a new life, Aris, will search the secret of his youth, he will fall in love with a poor girl, Alexandra and he will confront his own ghosts. In the meanwhile a fire turns Athens into a living hell...
What If...
Act like Dimitris' Mother
event2012 star_border 6.4
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Athens - Greece - The age of Economic crisis Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a female German Shepherd called Lonesome. One night, after supper, Lonesome wants to be taken out. Demetris tries to change her mind but Lonesome insists Its at this moment that he comes to a decision. This decision will change his entire life. If Demetris goes out he will meet Christina, the love of his life. If he stays in, he will not meet her. Does true love exist? What is the impact of a severe economic crisis on people and how can the crisis destroy a couple? One story shown from two different angles.
Bliss
Act like Mother
event2017 star_border 10
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The post-it messages of a stranger push Anna to her limits, shattering her mental health. A tragicomic glance at the life of a young woman, viewed through a distorted perception of reality.
Amerika Square
Act like Georgia
event2016 star_border 5.7
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Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of foreigners coming. They meet in Amerika Square in Athens because of Syrian refugee Tarek.
Stone Years
Act like Eleni Yfanti
event1985 star_border 6.2
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The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974
The Cistern
Act like Eleni
event2001 star_border 5.8
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In 1974, a group of 11-year-old boys spend the last carefree summer of their childhood, unaware that the world of grown-ups, with its loves, passions, prejudices and curses, is about to seal their fate. Aaron, Stelios, Sakis, Galanos and Verios, "the acrobats", are best friends. School has closed for the summer holidays and the children spend their time playing games, running errands, and riding their bikes. Life is a game, into which they channel all their physical energy and imagination. They practice their diving abilities in a big cistern. It is a game through which their special talents and competitive spirit unfold. One is good at balancing acts, another at diving and another at somersaults. It is in this neighborhood that Aaron will spend the most important summer of his life: a rite of passage from childhood to adolescence, a time for learning about love, jealousy and friendship.
A Blast
Act like Mother
event2014 star_border 6.1
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Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of the motorway. Only a day before she was a caring mother, a loving wife, a responsible daughter. Today she has gone rogue.
Wild Duck
Act like Panagiota
event2013 star_border 5
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“Wild Duck” is the story of Dimitris, a telecommunications engineer who’s forced to shutter his business after running up a considerable debt with a local loan shark. He and his buddy Nikos, another telecommunications expert working for a big outfit, decide to get to the bottom of a big scandal. Their research leads them to a certain apartment, whose tenant Panagiota becomes the focus of their attention. Dimitris is now facing some major dilemmas and a trip to his hometown will help him clear his head and look at himself under a different light.
Absences
Act like Eleni
event1987 star_border 6.2
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A family story of incest, decadence and desolation. Greece, early twentieth century. A bourgeois family is on the verge of breaking up. The mother has abandoned the family, and the father, a retired officer, keeps his three daughters, as well as the illegitimate son of the oldest daughter, confined in the house. After his death, the three sisters live through their personal drama. The eldest, Eleni, imbued with the morals of the time and closely identifying with her father, tries to take his place. The middle one, Maria, representing rebellion, goes off with a captain of the sanitation service, while the youngest, Anna, skating on thin ice through all this, is completely destroyed.
A.C.A.B. All Cats Are Brilliant
Act like Mother
event2013 star_border 5.8
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Director’s statement: “Electra is in her early 30s, living in Athens today. She is an artist, but she makes a living working as a babysitter. She is an activist and her boyfriend is a political prisoner. She feels lonely and is struggling to find her place in the world. We follow her as she meets the most important people in her life. Through these meetings, we understand better not only Electra, but also a whole generation of young people who feel stifled in this world. Capitalism, consumerism, globalization are currently being cast into doubt, so I needed to make a film that addresses all these things. What I’m interested in is showing how they affect our everyday life, our small decisions, our intimate relationships.”
The Surface of Things
Act like Ismini Nardi
event2017 star_border 6
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An urban legend of Athens says that in the 80s a girl was swept away by an ancient underground river that nobody has ever seen. Today a young anthropologist is researching the case, interviewing the girl’s three best friends and their former history teacher.
Quiet Days in August
Act like Έλλη
event1991 star_border 5
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The stories of three lonely people surviving a sweltering summertime in Athens are interwoven in this gentle romantic drama. Nikos used to be a merchant seaman, traveling around the globe to exotic places and testing his wits and his mettle in different situations. Now he is retired, living in Athens with his wife whom he no longer loves. While at the train station, he encounters a woman who faints more or less into his arms. From her, he learns that this day has already been special to her for two reasons: her husband just died, and it is her birthday. Curiously, this meeting sparks new life in him. Another man suffering through the hot Athens summer is a bank employee who gets calls every day at four p.m. from a woman who seeks to arouse him. What she succeeds in doing is rousing his curiosity, which he is likely to regret giving in to.
The Island
Act like Iamvina
event2009 star_border 6.2
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The death of a prominent citizen reveals the corruption that festers behind closed doors on a seemingly beautiful serene Greek island of Sifnos.
Fugitive Pieces
Act like Mrs Serenou
event2007 star_border 6.2
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A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Anna's Summer
Act like Zoi
event2001 star_border 5
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A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
The Factory
Act like υπάλληλος τραπέζης
event1981 star_border 4.2
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A tanner, swamped with debts, must abandon his trade and go work in the local factory.
South Wind
Act like σύζυγος Μηνά
event1984 star_border 3
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A group of intellectuals holidaying together at an isolated beach become mentally unhinged by the presence of a beautiful English nudist.
The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Act like Aleka Konstadinidi
event2008 star_border 4.5
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Elias of the 16th Precinct follows three friends – Elias, Thomas and Vangelis – who face considerable financial hurdles with their debts rivalling the size of Everest. They decide the only solution is to snatch money from Vangelis’ boss, Labros ; a cafeteria owner, pawnbroker and fence. While Thomas will attempt the breaking and entering, Elias will be disguised as a police officer – for security reasons, of course. Hilarity ensues as this comedy of errors sends their plan spiralling off in a totally different direction.
The Falling Dust
Act like σύζυγος Χρόνη
event2004
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A 50 year old journalist, son of a civil war hero, who died fighting for the right forces is shattered, when he recognizes him in a documentary, fighting for the communists. He starts searching for the truth, despite his family's objections, who fear that they will lose privileges if the status of the dead changes after the search.
The Attack of the Giant Mousaka
Act like Εύη Μπέη
event1999 star_border 3.1
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Around the year 2000, a terrible occurence shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how, for what reason? But no one can give an answer...
Wasted Youth
event2011 star_border 5.7
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Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.
The Island 2: The Hunt for the Lost Treasure
Act like Ιαμβίνα
event2011 star_border 5.8
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In Nisos 2 the main actors return to the island following the rumours of a hidden treasure. During their "treasure hunt" a bunch of surprises and unexpected events await them.
Signs & Wonders
event2001 star_border 3.8
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Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Yperoha Plasmata
Act like Στεφανία (26 ep.)
event2007 star_border 5.8
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The series follows the lives and loves of three 30-something professionals in modern day Athens. Elli (Faidra Douka) is a junior executive in a record company, having to deal with a highly demanding bitch-of-a-boss. Following the end of a serious relationship, Elli is worried about never having a chance to marry or have kids. Her search for new partners mostly results in the entry of weirdos in her life. Mitsaki (Mirto Alikaki) is a radio producer with a love-hate-relationship with her own boss. A life-long party girl with a tendency towards short-lived relationships and an aversion to taking any short of responsibility, Mitsaki has to come to grips with the idea of growing up. Billy (Giorgos Pyrpassopoulos) is a reporter with a rather unsteady love-life. He is a homosexual, but tends to be turned-off by the quirks of his various partners and has yet to fully commit to a relationship.
Dark Sea
Act like Ξένια Αθανασιάδη (23 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7
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A dark hero with memory gaps tries to prove his innocence. Alone against all. Faced with invisible mechanisms of power and a web of family secrets and personal passions.
The witch
Act like Kypriani (73 ep.)
event2023 star_border 5.5
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1817. Mani, Greece. Two rivals families decide to marry their children. After a while their grandchild is born and found dead in the river. Everyone blames Theofano, a girl, who is a witch.
Milky Way
Act like Maro (8 ep.)
event2023 star_border 8.7
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Follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos.
Flame and Wind
Act like Foteini (12 ep.)
event2022
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In 1968, Georgios Papandreou is having an operation in a central hospital in Athens. Kyveli, separated for years from the great love of her life, goes to see him. How did these two eminent figures of Greek history come together? One in politics, one in theater? It all begins a long time ago...
To Minore Tis Avgis
Act like Sylvia (27 ep.)
event1983 star_border 8.5
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Set in the 1930s, Antonis Zagouras is a young misusian who comes to Athens trying to make ends meet.
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