Vasilis Diamantopoulos

The Overcoat (1997)

Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it's ...

Business in Balkan (1996)

Alexandros wants to open a bar in a district town so he travels to Romania to find young girls to work for him.The bar has unprecedented success but then something happens. ...

Cavafy (1996)

An ailing, elderly poet reminisces about his life of unrest and homosexual urges. ...

Isimeria (1991)

The paths of five people—a French archaeologist, his Greek assistant, his daughter, her journalist friend, and an elderly teacher who is a permanent resident of the area—cross at an archaeological excavation site during the autumn equinox. a permanent ...

The Children of the Swallow (1987)

A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that be ...

Horis martyres (1983)

A doctor is accused by a medical student of assaulting her. During the trial, the doctor refuses to defend himself. When his lawyer investigates the case in depth, it is revealed that the student had suffered a nervous breakdown in the past and that the do ...

The Red Train (1982)

Captain Angelos and the soldier Memos participate in a group of experienced ELAS's guerrillas. The team assumes the dangerous mission to reach the center of Athens, under the control of the English and the Greek regular army, and blow up the headquarters o ...

Educate Yourself My Son (1981)

The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family. ...

Καλή σου Νύχτα Κυρ-Αλέξανδρε (1981)

Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927 (1980)

A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by Venizel ...

The Smile of Pythia (1979)

Four robbers attempt, between several misfortunes, to steal a famous statue from the museum of Delfi under the orders of a blackmailer. ...

The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)

A wealthy member of the upper classes and his three sons withdraw to a country villa where they spend their days in complete idleness, having everything done for them by their young and beautiful maid. They surrender to the pleasure of sleep, while idlenes ...

Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad (1971)

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding f ...

The Confession (1970)

In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife. However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. Unclear what his offense is, agents for ...

The Road to Corinth (1967)

The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence. ...

A Bullet Through the Heart (1966)

Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchm ...

Loyalty (1963)

Shortly before the start of a recital at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, pianist Stefanos Ballis has an accident and is taken to hospital. As she goes to see him, his wife Elli, distraught, tells her friend Stella how she met Stefanos seven years ago, when h ...

The Trip (1962)

This film is a social comment of the times, exploring issues that centre around relationships and what was allowed and what was not allowed at the time (early 60s) in Greece. There are sub-plots also, mainly relating to the life of the poor city dwellers, ...

Hands Up, Hitler (1962)

Two friends (Thanasis Vengos and Vasilis Diamantopoulos) meet after many years and recollect the tragi-comic events they went through during the German occupation. ...

Nomos 4000 (1962)

Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. .. ...

Death Will Return (1961)

Adapted from Nikos Foskolos' theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza's niece and her fiancé, Norton's physician, and the hot ...

Erotic Stories (1959)

A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories. ...

Father-in-Law With a Heart of Gold (1959)

A few hours after the arrival of Aristeidis (Dinos Iliopoulos), Mary's (Kakia Analyti) soon to be fiance, her father Andreas (Vasilis Diamantopoulos), an upstanding citizen, lies about having a meeting with the Bishop and instead goes to meet his neighbor ...

Horse and Carriage (1957)

An old chauffeur, after removing his rambling son, decides to live with his orphaned girl while facing the advent of the car that displaces the carts. ...

At Night The Entanglements (1957)

The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman. ...

The Abduction of Persephone (1956)

Two villages are in conflict over the waters of a region, but the love between two young people will restore order. ...

Night Adventure (1954)

The Last Mission (1949)

An ex-member of the Resistance pumps six bullets into a grizzled woman and spends the night at the police station, recounting the dangerous life of her heroic father during the Nazi Occupation of Greece. Is she capable of forgiveness? ...

Marinos Kontaras (1948)

Marinos Kontaras, a pirate in the Aegean, falls in love and abducts beautiful Lemonia. ...