Michalis Reppas

Michalis Reppas was also born in 1959, on May 20, in Loutraki, Corinthia. He studied at the Mathematics Department of the University of Athens, and at the Drama School of the National Theater, while he studied for a short time at the Stavrakos School. Michalis Reppas often appears as an actor as well - mostly in their own projects. Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanasiou are a contemporary writing duo who have been involved in writing (as well as directing) plays, as well as television series, films, and musical theater performances. They became widely known with the now famous television series Treis Harites (1989 - 1992) and Bis hexamartein (1993 - 1996). Their plays "Dads with Rum" (1996), "Symbetheri from Tirana" (2008), "The Stork Brings the Babies" (2002), "Raus" (2010), "Men ready for everything" (2012 ) was one of the biggest commercial successes of modern Greek theater while their film "Safe Sex" (1999) broke the record for paid Greek cinema tickets with 1,500,000 tickets. The film currently holds the second place at the Greek box office, right after "Politiki kousina". The authors have been honored with the "Karolos Koun" theater prize (2002) in the category "Dramaturgy of a Greek Work" for their play "Evros across the street" while their also play "Attiki Odos" (2010) won the " Audience Theater Award" of the magazine "Athinoramas", in the category "Best New Greek Project". Their film, "Oxygeno", was honored in 2003 with the "FIPRESCI Award", at the ...

Blackmail Boy (2003)

In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Nena Menti  •  Maria Kavoyianni  •  Akilas Karazisis  •  Joyce Evidi

In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Nena Menti  •  Maria Kavoyianni  •  Akilas Karazisis  •  Joyce Evidi

Crying... Silicon Tears (2001)

This is the story of two Greek families, named Delafrangas and Bisbikides. The former family is very wealthy & lucky, the latter very poor and continually struck by fate. Poor but honest Martha is in love with Giakoumis, a young builder and bouzouki organist, but ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Tasos Halkias  •  Mirka Papakonstantinou  •  Anna Panagiotopoulou  •  Maria Kavoyianni

This is the story of two Greek families, named Delafrangas and Bisbikides. The former family is very wealthy & lucky, the latter very poor and continually struck by fate. Poor but honest Martha is in love with Giakoumis, a young builder and bouzouki organist, but ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Tasos Halkias  •  Mirka Papakonstantinou  •  Anna Panagiotopoulou  •  Maria Kavoyianni

Extremely Non-Graphic (2008)

Two young Greek filmmakers seeking financers for their film "The End of the Passion" end up with an almost forgotten old-time porn-king producer. He agrees to help them, while concealing his own secret plan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos  •  Dimitra Stogianni  •  Pigmalion Dadakaridis  •  Dimitris Tzoumakis

Two young Greek filmmakers seeking financers for their film "The End of the Passion" end up with an almost forgotten old-time porn-king producer. He agrees to help them, while concealing his own secret plan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos  •  Dimitra Stogianni  •  Pigmalion Dadakaridis  •  Dimitris Tzoumakis

Safe Sex (1999)

A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Mina Adamaki  •  Alexandros Antonopoulos  •  Kostas Grekas  •  Vaso Goulielmaki

A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Mina Adamaki  •  Alexandros Antonopoulos  •  Kostas Grekas  •  Vaso Goulielmaki

Which Eleni? (2004)

In 2004 the duo of Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanassiou presents at the National Theater a show that will cut many tickets and will be repeated next year. It is entitled "Which Eleni?".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Jessy Papoutsi  •  Yorgos Karamihos  •  Jeannie Papadopoulou  •  Vassiliki Deliou

In 2004 the duo of Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanassiou presents at the National Theater a show that will cut many tickets and will be repeated next year. It is entitled "Which Eleni?".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thanasis Papathanasiou  •  Michalis Reppas
CAST:  Jessy Papoutsi  •  Yorgos Karamihos  •  Jeannie Papadopoulou  •  Vassiliki Deliou