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There are times when watching an actor on television or in the theater we associate him with his roles and imagine that his life will be more or less the same.
An example of this is Nitsa Tsaganea. How many of us have not imagined that her life was calm and flowed extremely κά as a family with her in the “role” of the sweet mother who passes everything through her hand and is in charge of keeping everyone satisfied?
And yet the reality is far from that.
Nitsa Tsaganea’s life was not just quiet and family. At least in the first half.
An intensely politicized person in difficult times, the beloved actress, soon chose a side and dedicate herself with all her might to the fight against the Nazis first and then against the “nationalists”.
Your life could easily turn into a movie full of adventure, strong political messages, and great love stories. The fact is that it would be difficult to find an actor who had the strength to face such a demanding role.
A career full of supporting roles.
On February 17, 1902, Eleni Laskari was born in Athens. The little girl shows an attraction for acting from his early years and that is why he studied at the School of Dramatic Art of the Hellenic Conservatory. There he stood out for his talent and soon landed his first roles.
She first appeared on stage in 1924 with the “Youth Troupe”, playing the role of “Fani” in “Students” by Grigorios Xenopoulos.
His film debut came in 1933 in the Greek-Turkish co-production “The Bad Road” (“Fena Yol”), directed by Ertogrul Muhsin and written by Grigori Xenopoulos and starring Marika Kotopouli, Kyveli and Giorgos. Vassilis Logothetidis.
Professional success was a fact for Nitsa Laskari who then took it upon herself to fill her CV with appearances alongside great actors such as Marika Kotopouli, Kyveli, Emilios Veakis, Vasso Manolidou, Vassilis Logothetidis, the Mimis Fotopoulos, The Dionysis Papagiannopoulos and many others.
He may not have had many starring roles, but all the appearances (especially the movie ones) garnered attention. He knew how to turn a secondary role into a protagonist. He knew how to earn his fair share.
After all, who can forget the role of Ourania Ginopoulou in “The Germans Are Returning”? The one with the mayor’s wife in “Nuestra Señora la Mamá”? The equivalent of Irene Dekavala in “a hero in sneakers”? And, of course, Angeliki in “Theodoros and the Bipod”, which for many is her best moment when she laughed generously so she could hold Theodoros.
The two marriages and the shocking coincidence
During the period when Nitsa Laskari made her appearance alongside Marika Kotopouli, she met Giorgos Vitsoris. He, a doctor with intense political action, immediately wins her heart and leaves his science to become an actor and be constantly by her side.
The faithful Trotskyist Vitsoris came into conflict with the archivists who in Greece had Mitsos Giotopoulos (his father) as their main spokesman. Alexandrou Giotopoulos who has been convicted of participating in the 17N), was arrested by the Silk regime and before the outbreak of Second World War exiled to France. There he developed a great action of resistance as a saboteur and after the war he was honored and awarded by the French state.
They married Nitsa and had a daughter, the actress and poet Liana Vitsori.
Their marriage, however, did not last long because Nice met a young doctor, of aristocratic origin with an impressive figure.
The young man was the Christos Tsaganeas who falls madly in love with Nitsa Vitsori. So crazy that he gives up medicine to become an actor with the woman he loves and his family fires him and stops supporting him financially.
Christos is forced to live on a ship in the port of Piraeus and, to earn a living, participates in performances of errant companies, the herds, which were highly undervalued at the time.
She divorces G. Vitsoris to marry the man of her life. Tsaganeas was the second man in Nitsa’s life to quit medicine to become an actor!
He changes his last name to Nitsa Tsaganea and with that he builds most of his career, while Christos becomes known as the inmate of the asylum in “The Germans Come Back” and knows the apotheosis of the movie “Wood came out of paradise” with him classic now role as … “Of course, of course”!
The two did not have a child, however they remained together until the death of Christos Tsaganeas in 1977.
Intense political action and the Trotsky archive
In the years when Nitsa was on Vitsoris’s side, it seems that he was heavily influenced by his political action. Thus, although separated for many years, during the occupation Nitsa Tsaganea joined the EAM lines and actively participated in its epic National resistance.
Member of ΕΑΜ He was also the former aristocrat Christos Tsaganeas. In 1944, during the December uprising, in fact, his name was associated with the horrendous murder of actress Eleni Papadaki by OPLA (a case that we will discuss in more detail in the next tribute).
On August 20, 1940, Ramón Mercander, a Spanish communist, civil war veteran, and son of the Spanish NKVD agent Caridad del Río Hernández, assassinated León Trotsky in Mexico. Mercander was the “elite” of the Stalinist regime for the murder of his great rival Stalin. Mercander believed, like all communists in the Soviet Union at that time, that Trotsky was a traitor to socialism and the fatherland, “a worm sold to the fascists.”
The shock for Trotsky’s followers around the world was great, however, they tried to prevent their important record from falling into the wrong hands.
In a strange game of fate, Vitsoris comes into contact with Nitsa and Christos Tsaganeas and although he knows that they are both members of the EAM that is loyal to the Stalinist regime, he asks them to keep and hide the valuable archive for as long as necessary. of Trotsky.
The couple did not deny and of course did not betray Vitsoris’ trust. The archive during the time it remained in Greece was hidden by the Tsaganeas couple under extreme secrecy without anyone knowing the least thing.
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