Giannis Sparidis

Giannis Sparidis

Acting

August 12, 1898 — October 28, 1973
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
28 movies

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🎬 Giannis Sparidis's Filmography

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The Island of Silence
9.5

"700 meters far from humans, and million meters far from humanity…" The study of the life of the lepers of Spinalonga with a dedication and affection that brighten the neo-realistic and documentaristic framework and style of the film. Plot: We watch romantic and emotional adventures, ideological and sentimental conflicts featuring the patients, doctors and several locals. The doctor Stathis Chtenas (Giorgos Kampanellis) is disappointed at the situation on the island and confesses to the teacher (Orestis Markris) that he wants to leave soon. Their life changes with the arrival of a young volunteer doctor, Angela (Nina Sgouridou), whose dynamic presence transforms life on the island. Stathis and Angela become a couple and make everything to improve life at Spinalonga. However, on the occasion of young Sifis’s (Tzannis Kourkoulakos) “escape” from the island, Stathis’s attitude changes.

The Island of Silence

1958
Business Venture
8.0

Two poor roommates, Spouritis and Floros, owe their landlady, Mrs. Persephone, several months' rent and are in danger of being thrown out onto the street at any moment. One day, they take on a job painting a house, but Spouritis's repeated blunders cause them to be chased by the owner, who demands that they pay for the damage. In their attempt to escape, they come across a dying woman, who entrusts them with a sick child and asks them to find his father. The two friends, kind-hearted and compassionate as they are, take it upon themselves to place an ad in a newspaper to find the boy's father. Coincidentally, the child's father is someone who is pursuing them. They try various tricks to avoid him. Then they get into trouble as photographers, and so someone else takes up the chase, resulting in a series of mishaps and blunders.

Business Venture

1966
Lisa, Tosca of Athens
5.6

Lisa (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) runs away from her father at the Athens airport because she does not want to marry a rich man from Paris whom her father has chosen for her. She hitchhikes to the city, where she meets Giorgos (Kostas Kakkavas) a handsome driver. Then, she runs away from him as well and tries to find her mother’s brother (Iordanis), whom she has never seen before. Her father publishes her photo in the newspapers and offers a reward of one hundred thousand drachmas to anyone who finds her. Lisa is now afraid that everyone can identify her, and so, in order to hide, she mingles with a group of tourists. However, she is unaware that her uncle is their guide. Giorgos has followed her in order to find out the reason she left him so suddenly, takes her in his car one more time, and they spend the night together.

Lisa, Tosca of Athens

1959
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