Acting
Eleni Zafeiriou
Eleni Zafeiriou (Greek: Ελένη Ζαφειρίου, 1916 – 2 September 2004) was a Greek film actress. She appeared in 108 films between 1951 and 1996. She was born in Larissa, Greece, and died in Athens.
She was a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre. She made his stage debut in 1936 in the play Before Sunset by Gerhard Hauptmann, which was staged at the National Theatre.
She played dozens of roles, mainly in the classical repertoire. The most important of these were the roles of Queen Margaret in Richard III, the goddess Athena in Iphigenia, Atossa in The Persians, Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, Goneril in King Lear, the nurse in Medea, Antigone in Oedipus at Colonus, Tecmissa in Ajax, Sarah in The Sacrifice of Abraham, Roncalina in The King, etc.
She had excelled in cinema in exceptional roles, with wonderful acting skills, embodying the simplicity of women of the popular classes, such as Bitter Bread, Little City, The Lake of Desire, etc.
In most of the films she participated in, she played the mother of the protagonists. On television, the role of Kambouritsa remained characteristic, which she performed in the series Christ is Crucified Again in the 1970s.
In addition, she participated in the dubbing of some cartoons. Specifically, she gave her voice to the witch from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Lady Klossa from the film Robin Hood.
In 1991, Eleni Zafeiriou's book entitled What Should I Remember First, Mother, was published by Odos Panos Publications.
She died at the People's Hospital of Athens after a battle with successive strokes and was buried at the Chalandri Cemetery in a close family circle.
Filmography
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Jenny Jenny
Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to visit the p...
Miss Manager
The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of whi...
The Lady and the Tramp
Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear a...
The Auntie from Chicago
Charilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises his four dau...
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that ha...
Groom from London
Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who works at a...
The Heart of a Tramp
Shortly before his father dies, Nikos, as the eldest son, promises to help his twin brother Andreas finish his...
The Decline
A weak before her lady-killer lover, a blond diva breaks up with the arrogant libertine to be with a kind frien...
Love and Blood
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well. Wha...
Wake up Vassili
Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often - but with no...
Lieutenant Natassa
The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the...
Unfair curse
Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the wedding, Pete...
Mrs. Midwife
The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.
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Bitter Bread
A poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in an acciden...
A Matter of Dignity
A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionai...
The Antijealous
Astrapogiannos
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the bl...
A woman's sacrifice
A wealthy young man with a bright future, Andreas, finishes the Polytechnic at a time when the lovely Stella, t...
A Girl in Black
Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a...
The Seal of God
After many years of working at sea, Andreas returns to his island in order to clear his dead father's name and...
My Bitter Love
A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother's house (E...
The Trip
This film is a social comment of the times, exploring issues that centre around relationships and what was allo...
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the d...
The Lagoon of Desire
Miranda, the rich and spoiled daughter of an Athenian businessman, accompanies her father to Messolonghi, where...
Face to Face with Death
Seven months after the declaration of the Greco-Italian War, a volunteer nurse and a small group of confidants...
Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
The heroic Souli have managed to repel the asker of Ali Pasha and his brave Malamos Dragon sends his mother to...
The Unknown
Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is based on the 19...
Erotic Stories
A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.
I Love Only You
A poor and refined water fisherman, Zafeiris Kassis (Nikos Xanthopoulos), who was invited by the barba - Minas...
Wrecks Of Life
Foula is kicked out of her father's house when the doctor who loved her leaves her, and she ends up in a brothe...
Soldiers Without Uniform
A resistance fighter, trying to escape the German blockade, takes refuge in a house where a mother lives with h...
Nomos 4000
Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of...
Men Know How to Love
A delicious and understated countryman, Anna, leaves for the capital to study. He's hitchhiking on the motorway...