Jorgo Papavassiliou

Georgios “Jorgo” Papavassiliou is a German-Greek film director and screenwriter.

Works

Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Release Date1971-06-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count26

Να μ' αγαπάς

Release Date2025-10-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count67

Vote Count1

Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten

A satirical film series in which Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rütten present and comment on B-movies that are characterized by a particularly bad style or unintentionally funny ideas.

Release Date2013-07-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count14

The Doctor

Release Date2023-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count47

Vote Count2

Ein Fall von Liebe

Release Date2014-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count1

Blond: Eva Blond!

Blond: Eva Blond!

Eva Blond is a German television series.

Release Date2002-10-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

42°C

Against the backdrop of Corfu, young Lena must confront the tragic death of her sister. In her effort to uncover the truth, she will have to face her own family and the memories that come back to haunt her.

Release Date2021-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count7

Cartes Postales from Greece

Based on the books of famous author Victoria Hislop, the series transports us to Crete and London, through 12 riveting, independent stories, starring Andreas Κonstantinou. Joseph, an introverted, Greek-born English archaeologist, is planning to propose to his girlfriend and has arranged a trip to his birthplace, Crete. When she doesn't show up at the airport, he sets out on a solitary walkabout of the island. He starts sending postcards to his ex-girlfriend's house in London, with stories he hears or experiences. He doesn't know, however, that the postcards are received by the house's new occupant, Eli, who develops feelings for this mysterious man.

Release Date2021-10-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count8

Die Sturmflut

Susanne, a meteorologist in Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people.

Release Date2006-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Shark Attack in the Mediterranean

A prehistoric shark (named in the books "megalodon") lurks Mallorca, killing a couple of individuals. A professional diver begins the hunt.

Release Date2004-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count38

A Houseboat to Fall in Love

Three children of a single father escape from the town in order to find a houseboat which was once owned by their mother.

Release Date2009-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Held der Gladiatoren

Germanus, a brave gladiator, witnesses the brutal murder of his brother, committed by another fighter. Since then, he will become his worst enemy, with whom he will fight in several fights, each more bitter. One day, Germanus discovers that his sister, also gladiator, maintains a passionate affair with the man who killed the brother of both, without her knowing anything about the crime

Release Date2003-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Die Sitte: Kaltes Blut

A 14-year-old girl is found murdered in the park. As the police suspect a sexually motivated crime, ‘Die Sitte’ is called in - a special squad of the criminal investigation department. Public prosecutor Marion Brandt, detective Hannah Koch and detective Leonard Winkler question the family and investigate the dead girl's circle of friends. Behind the façade of an ideal world, they come across a thicket of feelings of hate, love, envy and jealousy.

Release Date2001-10-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Ein Sommer in Paris

Clara and her boyfriend break up their relationship in Paris. She stays a few days in the city, where he meets a man who offers her work. But, unexpectedly, love again knocking on her door.

Release Date2011-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Mörderischer Besuch

Release Date2010-12-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ein Sommer in Südfrankreich

After the death of uncle Olivier, his estate, a small chateau in Provence and the small town's only undertaker firm in its cellar, befall equally and jointly to his local stepson André Vidal, who runs the business since Olivier semi-retired ill, and German cousin, business consultant Charlotte. She arrives from Frankfort to sell the estate at the skyrocketing prices for such idyllic hospitality industry sites. André is shocked, determined to preserve the town's social fabric by preserving Olivier's heritage, and disappointed she doesn't even recognize him as childhood best playmate. It turns out the backward taxes are a ticking bomb, which she sneakily intends to ignite, only André's charms and the lavender-scented bucolic way of life appeal ever more even to businesslike Charlotte.

Release Date2016-10-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Liebe unter Verdacht

Release Date2002-11-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Mörder kennen keine Grenzen

While searching for a serial killer in Berlin's tunnel system, investigator Maik Brunner is hit by a subway train. He wakes up in hospital - in the GDR, in 1984! Lieutenant Kempe is already waiting for him - she is working with him on a series of murders very similar to the one in 2009. Here, too, the perpetrator has poisoned his victims. And here, too, he knows his way around the underground. If Brunner catches the perpetrator in 1984, he could save his girlfriend. In 2009, she is in the hands of the madman...

Release Date2010-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

A Summer in Cyprus

Moritz goes to Cyprus with his mother Tina to meet his father Aiven for the first time. At first, Aiven tries to evade any contact with Moritz out of fear that he might ruin his marriage, but Aiven's brother Elyas just takes them to his parents' house anyway where they are introduced as Elyas' girlfriend and her son. Will Aiven finally acknowledge his son?

Release Date2017-05-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Slave

A clever policeman investigates the death of an abusive businessman who had recently divorced his wife and taken custody of their child by exposing her past as a porn star.

Release Date2012-11-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ein Sommer in Griechenland

45-year-old Rieke Bauer wants to work for the travel company run by her family. Because she can drive and has no problems with longer routes, she is hired as a bus driver. She manages to get all the passengers to Athens unharmed on the first trip, but then disaster strikes: one day after arriving, she discovers that the bus has been stolen. That wouldn't be so bad if Rieke had parked the vehicle in the guarded parking lot and the insurance would cover the loss. However, she has parked directly in front of the hotel and therefore forfeited her right to compensation. In this awkward situation, the Greek Yannis stands by her side - and the driver urgently needs help, because her sister and an insurance agent soon turn up...

Release Date2015-04-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Ein Sommer in Amalfi

German travel guide researcher Kai, a gay player, breaks a leg on mission in Amalfi, once more paying too much gay attention to Italian stallions. This forces his editor Claudia Wesskampe, who hates the Mediterranean on account of her absent Italian stepfather, to join Kai to finish the field work, as he's already dangerously close to her deadline. Friendly locals like padre Leo Muti and his flirtatious cousin Luca soon convert her to appreciate the country, its people and even her unraveled family history.

Release Date2013-04-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Liebe nach Rezept

With magical love herbs Corinna wants to bring back momentum in their marriage, but the thing gets out of hand. Ironically, on her wedding day, Corinna realizes that her marriage is in a dead end: her once-romantic husband now prefers to look after other women and otherwise only thinks about business. How is she supposed to make Michael feel a little bit more emotional again? Corinna's Romanian cleaning lady Rosha knows her advice: she gives Corinna a magical love herb that is supposed to turn the stressed-out workaholic into a freshly in love romantic.

Release Date2007-06-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Ein Sommer in der Toskana

Fashion reporter Laura Hansen's research in Tuscany, accidentally reveals that her late mother Gloria, who spent holidays in Prato for 25 years, had a secret adulterous affair in Lucca with surviving local gentleman Emanuele della Torre. Laura falls in love with business attorney Alessandro della Torre, before realizing he's Emanuele's son and works for an Italian luxury-label that exploits thousands of Chinese sweatshop laborers selling "made in Italy" without European labor conditions, as if her mother's secret weren't enough complications, yet lets them be drawn into a web of deceit.—KGF Vissers

Release Date2019-04-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Missing

Claudia, with her son and his new partner, undertake an idyllic holiday in the Greek islands. Ominous clouds the relationship of the couple when, after an argument, he disappears into the night. Claudia then began a desperate search for her boyfriend ...

Release Date2007-10-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Unter Mordverdacht - Ich kämpfe um uns

Release Date2007-02-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Wenn eine Mutter ihr Leben verspielt

Release Date2001-04-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Das Geheimnis - Auf der Spur des Mörders

Release Date2001-03-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Albert - Mein unsichtbarer Freund

Release Date2007-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Tödliche Wildnis – Sie waren jung und mussten sterben

Six students go to the Baltic island of Nordström with their archeology professor. The island has it all: after the geologist Berger has sunk into the moor with her only cell phone, one after the other blesses the temporal. What's going on here? Everyone suspects everyone ...

Release Date2000-04-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

A Summer in the Mountains

Hamburg boy Leo Vandenbroek is not amused when his mother, ER surgeon Pia, drags him to a godforsaken Bavarian village for her 'long overdue relaxing holiday'. In fact she rented from local doctor Peter Huber because he's married to Maria, who she learned in her recently deceased father's testament to be her illegitimate half-sister. Leo, who misses his daddy since Pia's career ruined her marriage, instantly bonds with Peter, and ultimately even becomes the glue to reconcile him with his father Karl, who is embittered since his wife's fatal disease.

Release Date2011-12-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Es war Mord und ein Dorf schweigt

Young Johanna dares to make a fresh start: she buys a run-down house in a small village on the former German-German border and starts her job in the local daycare center. With her charming manner, she quickly dispels the mistrust of most of the long-established residents. But some of the residents soon realize that Johanna has not moved to their village by chance: she is on the trail of a story from the pre-reunification era that many would rather keep in the dark...

Release Date2006-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Autsch, du Fröhliche!

Release Date2000-12-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2