Maria Kavogianni

The beloved Greek actress Maria Kavogianni talks to us about her favorite films on Cinobo: Why does she recommend them? Which of the roles she talks about would she have wanted to play? And what’s the most difficult part of being an actor?

Isabelle Huppert won an award at Venice in 1988 for playing Marie-Louise Giraud, who carried out twenty-seven abortions in occupied Cherbourg and was put on trial for it by the Vichy regime. Chabrol tells her story without once telling you what to think. — Marie is raising two small children in a town in German-occupied France, with a husband sent home wounded from the war and not a penny to her name. When a neighbour comes to her in trouble, Marie helps her out, and word gets around fast. Soon there’s a queue outside her door and a prostitute living in the spare room. Marie has money for the first time, and it suits her down to the ground. — Golden Ciak Award for Best Film | Venice Film Festival | 1988 Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert) | Venice Film Festival | 1988

Woody Allen's late-period masterpiece, a story straight from the pages of Fyodor Dostoevsky, a fascinating study in crime, punishment and the amoral indifference of the universe we live in. — A social climber and ambitious tennis teacher marries the sister of a London aristocrat while maintaining an illicit affair with the latter's fiancee. When his mistress gets pregnant, the decisions he will make will be disastrous. — Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2006 Nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Scarlet Johansson) | Golden Globes | 2006 Nomination for Best Director | Golden Globes | 2006 Best European Film | Goya Awards | 2006

Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival of 2018 and an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for Lebanese Nadine Labaki's neorealist drama that will not leave anyone unmoved. — While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy decides to make his own revolution against poverty and family hardships, in the suffocating and dead-end reality of modern Lebanon. — Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2018 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Cannes Film Festival | 2018 Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2019 Nominated for Best Motion Picture in a Foreign Language | Golden Globes | 2019 Audience Award | Sarajevo Film Festival | 2018 Audience Award | Rotterdam International Film Festival | 2011

After Poland banned his previous film, Żuławski took his next provocation to France. Romy Schneider plays an actress stuck in cheap softcore pictures and Fabio Testi the photographer who borrows money to buy her a real role at last, in a melodrama that won’t play by the usual rules. — A photographer walks onto the set of a cheap porn film and finds the actress Nadine in tears. To give her a role worthy of her at last, he borrows a large sum from a loan shark and puts on “Richard III”. They fall in love, but Nadine is also married to the man who once got her out of trouble. — Best Actress (Romy Schneider) | César Awards | 1976

The Israeli director Michal Vinik surprises the festival world with a well-crafted chamber drama, which with escalating tension and with the help of an excellent script reveals how far gender equality still is. Silver Alexander Meet the Neighbors award at the 63rd Thessaloniki Film Festival. — Valeria, a young Ukrainian, arrives in Israel to meet her future husband. Their wedding has been arranged online - just like the wedding of the girl's older sister, who has already been married in Israel for years. But nothing will run smoothly after this arrival. — Official Selection - Orizzonti | Venice Film Festival | 2022 Silver Alexander - Meet the Neighbours | Thessaloniki Film Festival |2022