Movies starring Irene Papas

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gregory Peck | David Niven | Anthony Quinn | Stanley Baker | Anthony Quayle | James Darren | Irene Papas | Gia Scala | James Robertson Justice | Richard Harris | Bryan Forbes | Allan Cuthbertson | Michael Trubshawe | Percy Herbert | George Mikell
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
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1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team’s ranks.

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Penélope Cruz | John Hurt | Christian Bale | Irene Papas | Gerasimos Skiadaressis | Aspasia Kralli | Michael Yannatos | Dimitris Kaberidis | Pietro Sarubbi | Viki Maragaki | Joanna-Daria Adraktas | Ira Tavlaridis | Katerina Didaskalu | Emilios Chilakis
Directors: John Madden
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The idyllic beauty of Greece’s Mediterranean coast has been invaded by Italy, bringing legions of soldiers to the once tranquil island of Cephallonia. Captain Antonio Corelli, an officer with an irrepressibly jovial personality and passion for the mandolin, initially alienates a number of the villagers, including Pelagia. The daughter of the village doctor, Pelagia is an educated and strong-willed woman, and while at first offended by the Italian soldier’s behavior, she slowly warms to his certain charms as they are forced to share her father’s home. When Pelagia’s fiancee, a local fisherman, heads off to war, the friendship between Antonio and Pelagia grows even stronger. Her beauty and intelligence have captured his heart, and his fondness for the village’s vibrant community causes him to question his reasons for fighting. Antonio becomes a part of the lives of the villagers, but the moment is fleeting. As the war grows ever closer, Antonio and Pelagia are forced to choose between their allegiance to their countries and the love they feel for one another-a love which must overcome tremendous odds, and endure the inevitable sacrifice which accompanies eternal devotion.