Hristos Valavanidis

Hristos Valavanidis

Nacimiento : 1944-05-21,

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Hristos Valavanidis

Películas

Beatitudes
A retiring man in rioting Athens faces ghosts and memories from the past to make choices about the present.
Eleni
When Helen is bored, horrible things happen around her.
Directing Hell
A Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and author from Greece. He is famous for creating controversial characters in his films that have a rebellious attitude towards the social and political status quo. He illustrates a dark and pessimistic present and future, but also providing ambiguous hope for the end when his heroes find their escape in death. His films are shocking and contentious, raising questions during times when political visions start to fade away. His filming was poetic, dynamic and aesthetically beautiful in order to present situations on edge and elicit his audience's feelings. The aim of this project is to transfer his dynamics in a documentary that will convey some of his messages and create a platform for exchanging opinions among filmmakers from all over the world, in an effort to decipher his universe and his symbols as reflections of his unique and rare personality.
Extended Play
Mihalakis
Poor Tasos and was so young! But also very jealous. A defect that ultimately cost him his own life as during his last jealousy crisis for of his beautiful girlfriend Alice, he will fall victim of a traffic accident. Archangels will sympathize with him, granting him another five invisible, on land, minutes, where he will have the opportunity to touch his favorite - and not - persons and to intervene in their lives.
Perdido en el amor
Mayor
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
Καρδιακός Φίλος
Crying... Silicon Tears
Heinrich Von Snitchell
This is the story of two Greek families, named Delafrangas and Bisbikides. The former family is very wealthy & lucky, the latter very poor and continually struck by fate. Poor but honest Martha is in love with Giakoumis, a young builder and bouzouki organist, but all her dreams fall apart when posh Tzela "steals" the love of her beloved one... A couple of flash backs, following their families roots back to WW2 and the Turkish domination, and a hidden secret will unfold the story's ending..
The Very Poor, Inc.
Nondas Papadopoulos
Odysseus is a model employee in Haramis Inc, a large company with an unscrupulous boss, Mr Haramis. When an oil spill puts the boss in a difficult situation, Odysseus gets the blame and he is sent to jail unfairly. In jail, he meets a junkyard dealer and an out-of-work mathematician with a fixation on the chaos theory. The three meet again once out of jail and decide to start a rubbish recycling company, which unfortunately, soon becomes successful enough to challenge the profits of Haramis Inc. Odysseus and his former boss cross swords again and end up in court - The moot point, who owns rubbish?
O agapitikos tis Dimitroulas
The show that broke the box office at the "Vembo" theater. A stage comedy of thieves and sinners.
Πατρίς, Ληστεία, Οικογένεια
Hristos
Made in Greece
Giannis Giannakis, released from psychiatric hospital after many years, decides to return home to his parents. On his way back he slowly discovers that the outside world is crazier than he thought - and starts to question whether he'd be better off back in the psychiatric ward.
Παπα-Turbo: Μας πήραν και τα...ράσα!
Τα ντερέκια
I Loved a Pontian
Giorikas
The feelings of a young lady for a Pontian Greek, whom his fellow countrymen call "the disgrace of Pontus", is obvious to everyone. Kostikas, however, doesn't notice her feelings because his mind is elsewhere. He is trying to become the president of the football team of New Pontus, in order to take the place of Giorikas, who happens to be in love with the lady in question.
The Photograph
Ilias Apostolou, un joven peletero que tuvo dificultades durante la dictadura, deja Castoria en 1971 para emigrar a Francia, donde espera unirse a un pariente lejano suyo, Gerassimos Tzivas, que ha estado viviendo allí desde 1950. Con él sólo se lleva de su tierra natal una fotografía de una persona que se encuentra en el pavimento. Le pide a Gerassimos que lo ayude a encontrar trabajo en París. Un malentendido en torno a la fotografía, sin embargo, desencadena una serie de eventos dramáticos.
Ο νταβατζής με τα ριγέ σώβρακα
Ο Πιπίλας και ο Τορπίλας
Η Γυναικάρα Απ' Το Κιλκίς
Ahrand
Loaf and Camouflage
Maj D. Karavidis
Narra la historia de un grupo de soldados, que durante el curso de su servicio militar en 1967 y 68, antes y durante la dictadura militar en Grecia, son asignados para la recién fundada televisión del ejército. Nominada a mejor dirección en el Festival de Berlín y con dos secuelas: "Loufa kai parallagi: Seirines sto Aigaio" (2005) y "I-4: Loufa & apallagi" (2008). (FILMAFFINITY)
Bitter Movie
An unconventional director gets through a critical time in his life. His best friend dies in a car accident and he ignores his girlfriend. The last straw is when he is told to make a movie about his life.
Αλλού παπάς αλλού τα ράσα του
Τα Καμάκια
Bebis
This comedy takes place during a hot summer at a Greek island. We meet Stathis and his company and we watch as they try to get the attention of all kinds of beautiful foreign girls.
The Wretches Are Still Singing
Hristos (as Chris Valavanidis)
Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years, the other comes from a series of "accidental" murders, another leaves his wife and kids, the fourth one is a wonderer, and the last one, the girl of the gang, comes from a lunatic asylum where she has been hiding for years... All of them are outcasts, tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved friends and betrayed by the politics of their times. They hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in his own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.