Great lady of theater and cinema, h Katerina Helmi she was a dynamic woman with a strong personality and kind soul. He has passionately served the art of acting for over sixty years, knowing important distinctions from her first steps on the stage. He had the ability to annihilate the distance between role and reality, convincing the viewer of the story he was acting out.
Yesterday, April 15, it’s been a year since her death and Finos Film wanted to honor her with a video on Instagram. The caption noted about the great actress: “The first appearance of Katerina Helmi in the cinema was at the age of 18 with the film “Barba-Yiannis o Kanatas” in 1957. However, as she herself had narrated, her film career, through which she was particularly loved by the public, was started by Fino, who when he saw her in the theater playing a from the prostitutes in “Red Lights” by Alekos Galanos, her proposed to act in the film “Law 4000” by Yiannis Dalianidis.
Since then he has established himself as a film actor, with perhaps her crowning moment, in the adaptation of the play “The Red Lights” to the cinema, directed by Vassilis Georgiadis. Three more films with Finos Film followed, in which her performances were disarming: “Without Identity” (1963), “Vertigo” (1963) and “The Enemies” (1965).
In 2018 and at the age of 79 she co-starred in her last theatrical performance, in the play “Homeland now – 8 hours and 35 minutes” by Fotini Tsalikoglou, adapted and directed by Manos Karatzogiannis, at the Stathmos theater. Katerina Helmi died on April 15, 2023, at the age of 83.
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