Athena Tzimouli: woman unknown film (video)

There are women who passed through the old Greek cinema and quickly “faded out”. Let’s look at one such woman unknown film. This is Athena Tzimouli, the unknown beauty of the film “Mrs. Mayor”, released in 1960. There is not much information available about the actress’s life. However, her name remains recorded in the titles of several Greek films of the early 1960s. Among them is “Mrs. Mayor” by Roviros Manthoulis, where she played Maroula, the daughter of Aspasia Zorbala, a character uniquely interpreted by Georgia Vasiliadou. The 1960 film is one of those classic Greek comedies where the love of the younger ones comes to overturn the eternal feud of the older ones. Maroula, along with Dimitris (Nikos Kourkoulos), is at the center of this love story. However, there is a scene that today particularly attracts attention. Maroula appears in a very short transparent nightgown. Her large breasts and nipples are visible through the fabric. And the scene takes on a sensual mood.

Athena Tzimouli, a woman unknown film

She is lying in bed and her mother discovers that she is holding a bottle of poison. In her attempt to take it from her, a struggle ensues and she pulls her nightgown in such a way that the straps fall off. Her breasts come out and their rich flesh is visible. It is this nudity that directors showed and made their comedies spicy. It was a way to sell more tickets, as if there was even one nude scene, it spread by word of mouth. The film sold 35,919 tickets and came 22nd among 52 films of the season. Athina Tzimouli was not a leading actress. She did not become one of the big names of Greek cinema and did not have the long career of other women of the time. Her filmography, according to the available records, also includes: “Desires in the Ears” and “The Dervishes” of 1960, “The Boy in the Square” of 1961 and “The Gold and the Tin Can” of 1962. In “The Boy in the Square”, she is even mentioned as the head of a clinic. And so Athena Tzimouli remained as a small, special footnote in the history of Greek cinema. A woman unknown film.🍯