Elpidoforos Gotsis
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A group of minors escape from a reformatory and lock themselves in a museum on an island, threatening to destroy the statues if their demands are not met.

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Leonidas
Nick, along with his wife and child, are traveling to his family's house in the countryside. It soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary visit.

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
