Mirka Kalatzopoulou

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.3909

Gender

Female

Birthday

05-Sep-1945

Age

(81 years old)

Place of Birth

Athens, Greece

Also Known As
  • Μίρκα Καλατζοπούλου
  • Μιρκα Καλατζοπουλου
  • Μίρκα Καλαντζοπούλου
  • Мирка Калатзопулу
  • Мирка Калацопулу

Mirka Kalatzopoulou

Biography

Mirka Kalatzopoulou (Athens, 5 September 1945) is a Greek actress. Together with her brother Yiannis Kalatzopoulou and Vasilakis Kailas, they were considered child prodigies of the golden age of Greek cinema. Mirka Kalatzopoulou, born in Athens in 1945, began classical dance lessons at a very young age. In the mid-1950s, she began performing in children's theater with her brother Yiannis. She made her film debut in 1955 at the age of just 9 with the sentimental film The Duchess of Placentia, directed by Maria Plyta and starring Rita Myrat in the role of Duchess Sophia. Her first leading role was in the 1960 film Erotic Games, directed by George Theodosiadis. Other important roles in the 1960s were in the films The Descent by Giannis Dalianidis, The Wood Came Out of Paradise by Alekos Sakellarios, and The Foolish Groom by Kostas Karagiannis. In 1967, after her marriage to businessman Carl Epser, she left for the United States where she began appearing on American television, participating in various shows, while at the same time she began taking acting classes at Columbia University, as well as business administration classes at UCLA. In 1978, Kalatzopoulou returned to Greece and began taking part in performances at the National Theatre, while two years later in 1980 she made her film comeback with the film The Man with the Carnation directed by Nikos Tzimas. In 1986, she participated in the film Caravan Sarai by Tasos Psarras, where she was awarded for her performance. Her last film appearance was in the film The Gaze of Odysseus in 1995, directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos.


Credits

Καραβάν Σαράϊ Καραβάν Σαράϊ (1986) Character: Theano
Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter becomes a whore, and the son has to work.
Δεν γνώρισα μητέρα Δεν γνώρισα μητέρα (1962) Character: N/A
After his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Lakis is forced to move to Athens to live with his cousin Marina, who lives with a gambler named Giorgos. Instead of offering him shelter and food, they send him to work at Benos' gas station, where he sleeps at night. Soon, Lakis befriends his boss's daughter, Kiki, who is the same age as him, but fails to win the sympathy of her brother, Takis. One day, Takis steals a large sum of money from his father's office and suspicion falls on Lakis. Benos confiscates all his money and fires him. Alone and desolate, since Marina has left Athens, he sells the suitcase containing all his belongings and begins to wander here and there.
Το μεροκάματο του πόνου Το μεροκάματο του πόνου (1964) Character: Maria
A melodrama that recounts the extremely difficult conditions under which a couple tries to live and find happiness. However, their quest for happiness turns into a harsh struggle for survival.
Της Πολιτσμάνας το... Κάγκελο!! Της Πολιτσμάνας το... Κάγκελο!! (1981) Character: Eleni
A housewife slips into her cousin's police uniform to check on her husband who is dazzled by a seductive industrial spy, and in the meantime, gives wrongdoers what they deserve. But, can a law-enforcement uniform save her marriage?
Αν όλες οι γυναίκες του κόσμου... Αν όλες οι γυναίκες του κόσμου... (1967) Character: Hloi
In a mountain village, a conflict develops between peace-loving and war-loving women, culminating in a global women's alert for peace and social justice.
Αγνές ψυχές Αγνές ψυχές (1960) Character: N/A
A children's film about the adventures of a young boy, Lampros, who returns to school after an absence of many days due to an accident. Lampros has a loyal and true friend in his dog, whom he calls Lykos (Wolf), with whom he spends endless hours of games and carefree abandon.
Η κόρη μου η ψεύτρα Η κόρη μου η ψεύτρα (1967) Character: N/A
A bankrupt businessman, Dinos Apergis, confides in his fiancée that he is thinking of committing suicide, but Rita, a poor telephone operator who has overheard the conversation, stops him. Together with two good friends, she follows him to Skiathos and introduces herself as the daughter of Nick Papas, the Greek-American oil tycoon. When Papas comes to the island on vacation with his voluptuous girlfriend Mitsi, Dino's former fiancée, Dino, who has fallen in love with Rita and knows that she is lying to him, suggests to Papas that he treat her as if she were his real daughter. The lies continue on both sides, until everything settles down under the umbrella of love that blossomed where no one could have imagined.
Νυχτοπερπατήματα Νυχτοπερπατήματα (1964) Character: N/A
Documentary about the nightlife in Athens. The nightclubs, the musical acts, the striptease shows, but also some dramatized acts with well-known actors...
Κορόιδο γαμπρέ Κορόιδο γαμπρέ (1962) Character: Fani
Two fanciful friends earn a half-apartment in a lottery and are forced to cohabit, while they like the same girl and want to marry her. So one tries to put obstacles in the other and engage in comic situations.
Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα (1995) Character: N/A
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Το κορίτσι με τις βαλίτσες Το κορίτσι με τις βαλίτσες (1994) Character: N/A
Michael falls in love with an American woman while borrowing his cousin's apartment, but the discovery of the contents of her suitcases gets them involved with the police, among other troubles.
Ήσυχες Mέρες του Αυγούστου Ήσυχες Mέρες του Αυγούστου (1991) Character: Βάσω Γκούφα
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.
Αθήνα, κλοπή της οδού Σταδίου Αθήνα, κλοπή της οδού Σταδίου (1968) Character: Σούζυ
Marianna, a free-spirited and wealthy young lady, becomes romantically involved with Marios, the leader of a gang of burglars who committed a major robbery at a jewelry store in Athens. The robbery was committed in broad daylight by Alekos and his girlfriend, Suzy and Sotos.
Τ’ Απόκρυφα μιας Μοναχής Τ’ Απόκρυφα μιας Μοναχής (1982) Character: N/A
Angeliki, a young woman seeking devotion, enters a secluded convent ruled by a harsh abbess with a hidden past. Among nuns escaping their own lives, tensions rise and buried secrets slowly surface within the silence of the cloister.
Ο Γαμπρός Μου, Ο Δικηγόρος! Ο Γαμπρός Μου, Ο Δικηγόρος! (1962) Character: Argyro Kapsomanoli
A barber wants to marry his daughter to a scientist. He believes that he has found the proper candidate in the face of a trainee lawyer.
Πατέρα Κάτσε Φρόνιμα Πατέρα Κάτσε Φρόνιμα (1967) Character: Betty Karastefanou
Antonis is a wealthy peasant who finds out that his son spends money and time partying instead of studying. He decides to visit him and restore him to track but instead of achieving his purpose, he falls into the trap of sweet life too.
Ο Κατήφορος Ο Κατήφορος (1961) Character: Λένα Νικολάου
A weak before her lady-killer lover, a blond diva breaks up with the arrogant libertine to be with a kind friend. His ego demands appeasement, but the lethal revolver in her hand thirsts for retribution. Who is to blame for her downfall?
Η Ελληνίδα και ο έρωτας Η Ελληνίδα και ο έρωτας (1962) Character: Schoolgirl
Revolving around the modern Greek woman and her perspective on love in general, not one, but twenty-one brief and vivid vignettes attempt to shed light on an ever-present matter: can there be consequences in Cupid's eternal game?
Ο θαλασσόλυκος Ο θαλασσόλυκος (1964) Character: Rena Sgourou
A trainee sailor makes life difficult for his marker to be presented with his outfit and his name to a girl he likes.
Η Δούκισσα της Πλακεντίας Η Δούκισσα της Πλακεντίας (1956) Character: Kid
After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834.
Ο Αριστείδης και τα Κορίτσια του Ο Αριστείδης και τα Κορίτσια του (1964) Character: N/A
Aristides, a widowed professor, lives with his housekeeper Eudokia and his three daughters, whom he has raised with strict principles. But what happens when he discovers that his daughters are planning a party? He takes drastic measures and forbids them from leaving the house. He entrusts Faidon with the task of finding them husbands. The girls' friends, Giorgos and Dimitris, then dress up as young ladies and present themselves at the house as their classmates from the conservatory...
Το Κορίτσι με τα Παραμύθια Το Κορίτσι με τα Παραμύθια (1956) Character: N/A
A young girl, who lives in a poor neighborhood with her little brother, falls in love with a rich young man.
Ψηλά τα χέρια Χίτλερ Ψηλά τα χέρια Χίτλερ (1962) Character: Danai
Two friends (Thanasis Vengos and Vasilis Diamantopoulos) meet after many years and recollect the tragi-comic events they went through during the German occupation.
Ακόμα μια Φορά... Πριν Ξεψυχήσω Ακόμα μια Φορά... Πριν Ξεψυχήσω (1970) Character: Anita
The entrepreneur Nick Zervoulis, seeing that his daughter Annita has trouble with the man of the underworld Mars Farkas, seeks the help of plef Bush Peter Dimas. Peter appears as an old friend of her father, slowly manages to make him fall in love and to remove from Mars. Mars but is not willing to let ...
Ερωτικά Παιχνίδια Ερωτικά Παιχνίδια (1960) Character: Jenny
A father is desperately trying to tame his young daughter, while she falls for a young man during their vacation In the island of Aegina, near Athens. But young love ignores fatherly threats and takes its course.
Το Ξύλο Βγήκε Απ' τον Παράδεισο Το Ξύλο Βγήκε Απ' τον Παράδεισο (1959) Character: student
Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.
Της Νύχτας τα Καμώματα Της Νύχτας τα Καμώματα (1957) Character: young girl
The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman.
Η Εκπομπή Η Εκπομπή (1968) Character: The Star
The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to fill the bill, a specimen who has all these characteristics. The lucky guy will spend a few hours in the company of a well-known movie star
Λολίτες της Αθήνας Λολίτες της Αθήνας (1965) Character: Rozy Kareni
What lies hidden in a nymphet’s soul? Lust for sex? Self-preservation? Childhood trauma? Father quest? Who can really see? A Police Officer who wants to bring Rosie back onto the right track does - but Rosie is too busy flirting with middle-aged men, destroying virtuous families and scheming her way up the social ladder, while also wallowing in seedy night clubs of the ’60ies wrestling Frida, the naked dancer hiding a rod, for Jim’s eyes only. Jim is not 100% sure which one of the two blondes he wants to kill so he might just make a serious mistake and kill Rosie. But is it really easy for a nymphet to be killed?



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