Vera Krouska Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Vera Krouska
Acting
Biography
Varvara (Vera) Krouska (Athens, 1947) is a Greek actress. She began her career as a dancer in Fotis Metaxopoulos' ballet, and began appearing in films in small supporting roles in the early 1960s. Some of her most important roles are in the films: I Blame My Body (1969), Saint Nektarios (1969), The Last of the Comitatzes (1970), The Last of Roupel (1971) and Give Me Your Hands (1971). Vera Krouska, originally from Sparta, was born in Athens and raised in Agios Loukas in Patisia. At the age of 15, she received permission from the then "Exceptional Talents" committee to study at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory of Music, while at the same time she began taking classical and modern dance lessons with teachers Sonia Morianova, Miriam Swazi and Kay Holden. She began her professional career initially as a dancer while also making her film debut with a small role in the film Taxi Driver (1962). She got her first leading role in 1967 with the film Love in Lesbos by producer James Parris, with whom Kruska signed a four-year collaboration contract. Her first appearance in the theater was in 1968 with the play "Forty Carats" alongside Elli Lampeti. She also took part as the leading actress in the plays: "The Cactus Flower" with the Elli Lampetis troupe and "Tavarits", "Picnic", "Oscar", with the Kostas Mousouris troupe. This was followed by her collaboration with the National Theatre and the plays "The Imaginary Patient" (1991), "The Criminals" (1992), "The Merchant of Venice" (1995), "Weighing in Anchors" (1997) and "Hamlet" (2003).
Filmography Movies
Acting
Death Steps in the Dark
An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main suspect. With the help of his Swedish girlfriend he starts investigating in order to prove his innocence.
My Best Friend
My Best Friend is the outrageous story of two men, friends since childhood, who have spent their lives tormenting one another. It is only when Constantinos discovers Alekos in bed with his wife that their friendship and their respective marriages finally collapse into a death spiral of sex, deceit and irrepressible humor. As events unfold another deception, one concealed by both men's wives, opens the door to incredible erotic intrigue.
To Be or Not To Be
After his business' bankrupcy, Giorgos Alexiou decides to commit suicide. Rosa, his cousin's wife who stand to benefit form his death, hires a private detective to keep an eye on him in case he changes his mind. Minas, Giorgos' employee, becomes Giorgos' guardian angel preventing the suicide at the last minute.
Someone like It Cold...
Lakis (Dinos Iliopoulos) has to make sure that his three sisters are married before he can marry his beloved Lela (Martha Karagianni). While at the beach, Eva (Zoe Laskari) and Maria (Hloi Liaskou) will meet Kleopas (Costas Voutsas) and Giorgos (Vagelis Voulgaridis) with whom they will start dating. But Rena (Rena Vlahopoulou) has a secret relationship with Thodoros (Giannis Vogiatzis) for 10 years.
The Swamp
Lena, Alexis and Manolis are ready to run with the money of a bogus company they had founded, when Lena discloses the secret to her childhood friend Dimitris. Alexis and Manolis decide to take him along, in their small private plane. They will land in a deserted spot and try to kill him, while Lena escapes with the plane, which she throws to a swamp along with the money it carries. The people from a lighthouse nearby apprise of the situation and try to get the plane out of the swamp, hoping the money will change their fortune.
The Girl with Golden Hair
Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of many locals to abandon the village for the big city or other countries. He works hard to organize traditional cultural events, such as outdoor performances of the traditional play I Chrissomalloussa, in order to solidify local values and a sense of identity. The teacher is aided by a young woman, a widow who has just returned from Germany and lives with her father-in-law. Kazan walks away with the film, as his sinister desires for his daughter-in-law are inflamed when he sees that she has fallen in love with the teacher. These developments lead him to whip up protests against the play by conservative locals, claiming that the teacher has changed the traditional story by adding elements of propaganda with the potential of causing peasant uprisings. The result is an unexpectedly violent example of social censorship.
An Uncompromising Man
A medical student (Pavlos Sidiropoulos) delays his studies to become a singer in this story of a man who follows his own convictions. He becomes a street singer and finds a young woman (Betty Livanou) he wishes to marry. After the two are wed, he returns to medical school to support his wife and family. He earns his medical degree and lands a job in a hospital. When he refuses to take part in the exploitation of the patients, he is fired. He opens his own practice but later quits when he is asked to participate in another fraudulent medical scam.
28th October, 5:30
After the Albanian war, the Kyriakos Platanias xanagyrnaei in the village, his little white, but with many badges and mutilated legs. The father of the delight that was always proud of his son could not bear the situation and resort to drink. Soon, the little white occupy the Germans led by Willy Knut, who behave like the inhabitants of servants. The new slavery is not prepared to accept the delight ...
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In 1940, during the outbreak of Greek-Italian war, Dimitris Nicolaou goes to fight as lieutenant in Greek-Albanian border. After their victory over Italians by epic battles, Dimitris is.....
Assignment Skybolt
An American secret service agent goes to Greece to investigate a stolen hydrogen bomb. It's connected to an antique coin that belonged to his brother...another agent. Now he's tasked with taking his brother out!
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