Katerina Helmy
Katerina Helmi (Athens, 12 August 1939 - Kifissia, 15 April 2023) was a Greek actress. She became widely known to the Greek audience through roles in some of the most beloved films of Greek cinema. Her first appearance in cinema was in 1957 in the film Barbagiannis the Pitcher, but her greatest success is The Red Lights. She was also the rival of Aliki Vougiouklaki in the film Our Love. During her career, she has participated in more than 25 films and 4 television series. She has also written several books. Her husband was the professor and academic Konstantinos Svolopoulos. Unlike her husband Konstantinos Svolopoulos, who was a close friend of Konstantinos Karamanlis and director of the Karamanlis Foundation, Katerina Helmi was politically active in PASOK, as a member of the Trade Union Committee of Scientists-Artists. In the 1994 municipal elections, she was elected as a municipal councilor of the Municipality of Athens with the faction of Theodoros Pangalos. She died on 15 April 2023.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2745 |
| Birthday | 1939-08-12 |
| Place of Birth | Athens, Greece |
| Also Known As | Κατερίνα Χέλμη, Katerina Helmi, Caterina Helmy, |
2001
Alexandria
7/2
Nina, daughter of a Greek woman who left Egypt in 1956, goes for the first time to Alexandria, discovers the city and the longing of her mother to tel...
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Alexandria
1982
Angel
5/8
Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love w...
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Angel
1969
Crooked Deeds
7/1
Dimitris, a poor painter who feels deeply disappointed in his life, leaves his wife and begins to wander aimlessly. The woman who raised him after the...
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Crooked Deeds
1979
L'amore
10/1
Returning to her small town, Anna, the widow of an Italian soldier whom she married during the occupation, revives her old teenage love in the face of...
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L'amore
1957
Athens dances Rock 'n' Roll
0/0
The film refers to the fashion of the new American rock and roll dance, which also reached Athens. It is a short film that cost 100,000 drachmas. When...
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Athens dances Rock 'n' Roll
1968
Our love
6.321/14
An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director...
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Our love
1960
Thieves Rejoice Only Once
5.667/3
A lawyer goes to Paros to meet his mistress. But trying to get away from her husband, who returns unannounced, he enters the room of a good-hearted gi...
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Thieves Rejoice Only Once
1969
Passion Fever
4.375/8
This and The Hot Month of August, both made in Greece, were acquired by DORIS WISHMAN for release in the United States. However, she somehow or other...
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Passion Fever
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
1962
Without Identity
7/3
Giannis (Alekos Alexandrakis) pretends to be the lost son of the Mavroleontos family. The mother (Vaso Metaxa) is happy with the return of her son. He...
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Without Identity
1963
The Red Lanterns
7.018/28
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
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The Red Lanterns
1965
The Enemies
6.2/5
Alekos is a journalist who hunts down all those who live in the dregs of society, until he realizes that the real enemy is corruption, not its victims...
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The Enemies
1963
Vertigo
5.125/8
A 19-year-old temptress caught in the intoxicating vertigo of passion ends up in prison. Her secret diary tells her side of the story, but unanswered...
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Vertigo
1957
Uncle Giannis, the Potter
6.125/4
Barba Giannis the potter tries to match Krinio with the wealthy Alexandros Harisis. Her mother Margarou and her uncle Platon feel very lucky, but Krin...
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Uncle Giannis, the Potter
1959
Erotic Stories
4.857/7
A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.
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Erotic Stories
1970
There Are No Deserters
7/1
August 1944, and a captain in the Greek army in the Middle East, Jason, secretly disembarks on an island with the mission of gathering information on...
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There Are No Deserters
2019
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea
5/29
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is...
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The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea
1971
Mara, the Gypsy
7/1
A wealthy young man falls in love with the Roma girl Mara. Both the young man's family and the girl's family react to the possibility of the two lover...
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Mara, the Gypsy
1969
Weaknesses
7/1
Stefanos struggles alone to succeed in life, but hides his fears about the uncertain future from the girl he loves, Anna. When he is called up for fur...
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Weaknesses
1962
The Great Sacrifice
7/1
The love between a folk singer and a civil engineer is met with resistance from the latter's mother, who is determined to destroy their relationship.
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The Great Sacrifice
1995
Life is a thousand and a half
10/1
A writer sees the people around him exclusively as book heroes, his decision to write a book about them causes him real life problems.
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Life is a thousand and a half
1980
Ο γυρολόγος
9/1
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Ο γυρολόγος
1970
Νατάσα
7.5/2
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Νατάσα
Εις θάνατον
9/1
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