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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4045 |
| Birthday | 1916-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Larissa, Greece |
| Also Known As | Ελένη Ζαφειρίου, Ελενη Ζαφειριου, Νίτσα Ζαφειρίου, |
1967
From Jerusalem with love
4.5/2
Martha is locked up in a mental hospital by her own husband, who covets her fortune. At some point, however, with the help of her husband's brother, w...
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From Jerusalem with love
1962
The steps of life
4/3
At the top of his class, a diligent architecture student, and son of a poor bouzouki player dreams of a life different from the one his father has alr...
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The steps of life
1964
Miss Manager
7.405/21
The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of which she takes over the management, but a...
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Miss Manager
1956
A Girl in Black
6.316/19
Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scor...
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A Girl in Black
1966
Test
8/1
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Test
1963
The big secret
9/1
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The big secret
1952
Lily of the Harbor
3.75/4
Captain Giakoumis makes the big decision to forsake the sea and live peacefully close to his wife and his adopted son, Andreas, who is about to sit fo...
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Lily of the Harbor
1958
A Matter of Dignity
7.292/12
A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she...
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A Matter of Dignity
1962
Sky
7.273/11
During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the...
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Sky
1970
Lieutenant Natassa
6.867/15
The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, a...
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Lieutenant Natassa
1968
A girl different from the others
10/1
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A girl different from the others
1957
The Auntie from Chicago
6.655/29
Charilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises his four daughters with... military discipline, tak...
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The Auntie from Chicago
1961
Mrs. Midwife
7.846/13
The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.
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Mrs. Midwife
1969
Wake up Vassili
6.769/13
Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often - but with no luck. His life will turn upside down w...
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Wake up Vassili
1961
Η απολύτρωση
9/1
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Η απολύτρωση
1971
The cry of truth
7/1
A young woman who lost her husband five years ago to a naval tragedy in the seas of Indochina does not say to lose her hope. He always lives with the...
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The cry of truth
1968
The Antijealous
8/1
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The Antijealous
1956
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
7.875/16
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that has gained a great reputation and is prep...
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The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
1967
Groom from London
6.615/13
Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who works at a store selling electrical appliances th...
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Groom from London
1962
The Trip
7/4
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 tim...
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The Trip
1961
The Decline
5.917/12
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...
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The Decline
1971
The Mistress of the Plain
8/1
A sweet and rich girl loves a poor shepherd and thus rejects the marriage proposals of a rich man. He accuses her beloved of theft—which the shepherd...
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The Mistress of the Plain
1962
Nomos 4000
5.9/10
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 th...
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Nomos 4000
1967
Ερασταί του μεσαίου τοίχου
5.5/2
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Ερασταί του μεσαίου τοίχου
1970
I Love Only You
9/2
A poor and refined water fisherman, Zafeiris Kassis (Nikos Xanthopoulos), who was invited by the barba - Minas pop singer in Athens, maintains his mot...
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I Love Only You
1971
Men Know How to Love
5.375/4
A delicious and understated countryman, Anna, leaves for the capital to study. He's hitchhiking on the motorway, and a business car, with a medical pr...
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Men Know How to Love
1951
Bitter Bread
6.2/5
A poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in an accident at the construction site, his oldest...
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Bitter Bread
1969
A woman's sacrifice
6/2
A wealthy young man with a bright future, Andreas, finishes the Polytechnic at a time when the lovely Stella, the girl she is in love with, starts her...
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A woman's sacrifice
1959
Erotic Stories
4.857/7
A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.
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Erotic Stories
1968
The Avenue of Hate
8/3
An unconscious driver fatally injures a woman and leaves her helpless to die. The victim was the wife of investigator Kostas Kyriazis, who, six years...
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The Avenue of Hate
1963
Restless youth
0/0
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Restless youth
1967
The hour of justice
10/1
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The hour of justice
1969
The Seal of God
5.8/5
After many years of working at sea, Andreas returns to his island in order to clear his dead father's name and settle his debts by taking back his fam...
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The Seal of God
1968
Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά
7.25/4
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Ξεριζωμένη Γενηά
1970
The Eagle of the Enslaved
7.5/2
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The Eagle of the Enslaved
1966
Jenny Jenny
7/18
Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to visit the private library of - her father's politi...
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Jenny Jenny
1970
Face to Face with Death
6/7
Seven months after the declaration of the Greco-Italian War, a volunteer nurse and a small group of confidants who take part in the Resistance, face i...
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Face to Face with Death
1969
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
7.167/6
Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the destruction of Smyrni. From an old man l...
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The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man
1954
The Unknown
3.857/7
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The Unknown
1969
For Honor and for Love
7/1
Reserve Second Lieutenant Christos Kladis is absent without leave from his unit when he learns that his girlfriend has become engaged to someone else....
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For Honor and for Love
1969
A Man with a Conscience
6.5/2
A freighter leaves the one she loves and goes to Germany to raise money to get married. When she returns she finds her married to another. The same ni...
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A Man with a Conscience
1969
Slum, my love
8/2
A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when she learns she is about to die.
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Slum, my love
1968
Humbled And Dejected
7.4/5
Manousos is the biggest child of a poor and crowded family living in the province. After finishing his term, he decides to work in Athens to help his...
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Humbled And Dejected
1971
I lived a monk without love
9/2
A talented young musician, Petros Apostolou, arrives in Athens and soon manages to record his first album. The success comes along with the love of yo...
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I lived a monk without love
1964
Egoism
6.75/4
A spoiled girl, Maria, does not care about anyone but herself and her good-natured. She relates eroticly to her sister's fiancé, Costas, to pay her th...
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Egoism
1968
The Lady and the Tramp
5.714/21
Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises...
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The Lady and the Tramp
1951
Dead City
6.75/4
A young painter returns to his hometown, Mystras, where he falls in love with the daughter of a family with whom his own family has a feud. The girl's...
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Dead City
1968
Love and Blood
7.333/3
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well. Whatever crosses the river separating the...
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Love and Blood
1969
The Refugee
6/2
The adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was caused because of a childhood trauma. He remembers...
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The Refugee
1965
We despised My Sweetness
10/2
To preserve his mother and sister, Michalis works at the port of Piraeus. His sister falls in love with a poor young man, but she is engaged to anothe...
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We despised My Sweetness
1954
Open Sea
8/1
On an island in the Aegean, a young girl, when he learns of the authoritarian father that is illegitimate, he tries to commit suicide by falling from...
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Open Sea
1970
Astrapogiannos
5.333/6
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to...
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Astrapogiannos
1970
Hours of love, hours of war
7/1
Towards the end of the war, Eleni meets the rebel Kostas, who is being pursued by the Germans. One night, the rebel arrives wounded at his brother Gia...
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Hours of love, hours of war
1967
Aspasia's dollars
5.167/6
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Aspasia's dollars
1964
My Bitter Love
3.333/3
A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother's house (Eleni Zafiriou). It turns into a pirated...
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My Bitter Love
1964
In the shadow of the other woman
3.333/3
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In the shadow of the other woman
1968
A Woman's Past
7.333/3
A nightclub singer is forced to shoot her ex-boyfriend, who has escaped from prison and is blackmailing her for money. Believing him to be dead, the g...
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A Woman's Past
1968
The Heart of a Tramp
6.333/3
Shortly before his father dies, Nikos, as the eldest son, promises to help his twin brother Andreas finish his studies. He sacrifices his dreams and t...
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The Heart of a Tramp
1954
The Acacia Road
7.5/2
An honest and sensitive girl who lives with her grandmother, Lena Petri, believes that the man she loved has deceived her in a despicable way. Disappo...
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The Acacia Road
1967
Unfair curse
6.5/2
Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the wedding, Peter leaves for London, but when he return...
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Unfair curse
1957
The Lagoon of Desire
6.6/5
Miranda, the rich and spoiled daughter of an Athenian businessman, accompanies her father to Messolonghi, where they have their own fish farming facil...
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The Lagoon of Desire
1972
The Enemy of the People
6.2/5
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The Enemy of the People
1959
Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
5.667/3
The heroic Souli have managed to repel the asker of Ali Pasha and his brave Malamos Dragon sends his mother to ask her hand Maro, niece of the captain...
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Zalongo, the Fort of Freedom
1966
Love that time does not fade
8/1
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Love that time does not fade
1967
Sometimes even the strong cry
6.5/2
A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose home his mother worked older as a shipwreck. But he...
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Sometimes even the strong cry
1968
The one that didn't bend
9/1
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The one that didn't bend
1966
I'm not selling my heart
7/1
Unexpectedly, a railroad worker falls in love with his co-worker's sister, unbeknownst to him that his boss' daughter has set her sights on him, envio...
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I'm not selling my heart
1959
The Lake of Sighs
5.571/7
Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governed by the fierce and vulgar Ali Pasas. Ali’s eldest...
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The Lake of Sighs
1970
Sunday's dream
7/1
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Sunday's dream
1963
Hearts in the storm
6/2
A mother fights tooth and nail to get her child back from an orphanage. She left him there when the man of her life, the child's father, abandoned her...
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Hearts in the storm
1971
I loved a bum
10/1
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I loved a bum
1969
The last goodbye
7/2
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The last goodbye
1965
The Poor Child
4/3
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The Poor Child
1965
The Immigrant
10/1
A young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed to save money for his last years.
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The Immigrant
1968
Venus the girl who hurt
4/2
Shortly after the Gorgopotamos bridge was blown up, Loukas and Christoforos, two Cypriot students studying in Athens and staying at Kyra-Anthi's house...
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Venus the girl who hurt
1966
The Devastated
7.5/2
The honest laborer falls into disfavour and is undermined by his factory's son because they both love the daughter of the factory owner without suspec...
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The Devastated
1959
Wrecks Of Life
8/1
Foula is kicked out of her father's house when the doctor who loved her leaves her, and she ends up in a brothel. There, her brother, who is unaware t...
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Wrecks Of Life
1971
The sun-born
9/1
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The sun-born
1971
Annio the cursed tseligopoula
10/1
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Annio the cursed tseligopoula
1960
Soldiers Without Uniform
10/1
A resistance fighter, trying to escape the German blockade, takes refuge in a house where a mother lives with her daughter, Alice. Alice, despite havi...
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Soldiers Without Uniform
1968
Damned love
8/1
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Damned love
1968
Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
7/1
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Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
1965
Παντρεύουν την αγάπη μου
10/1
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Παντρεύουν την αγάπη μου
1970
Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα
9/1
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Γύρω μας γκρεμίστηκαν όλα
1969
Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
9/1
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Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
1972
Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
8/1
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Τύψεις συνειδήσεως
1964
Cyprus in flames
10/1
This is the film Crete in Flames, with some changes made to exploit a true story – it is about the kidnapping of Tasoula Vardinoyannis by Yannis Kefal...
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Cyprus in flames
1968
Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας
7/1
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Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας
1968
Η Λυγερή
9/1
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Η Λυγερή
1966
I want to live in the sun.
9/1
This is one of the many variations on the Romeo and Juliet myth, in which young love reunites two children, Dimitris and Myrto, whose families hate ea...
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I want to live in the sun.
Ο Γυρισμός της Μάνας
9/1
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