Word: crete
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begins when Zorba approaches a young English writer, (Allan Bates) who is on his way to Crete to look after a mine left him by his father. Zorba pleads with the lad to hire him as an assistant, and Bates unfortunately does. They conclude a pact in true Faustian style...
...does not feel sorry for rates as he travels this Faustian road to degeneration. If a young man should have to go to ruin anywhere, Crete is a highly scenic spot to do it. The skillful photography in Zorba elaborates this point, as well as the delightful Greek music. But the acting of Anthony Quinn as Zorba remains the most persuasive part of this movie. His huge face seen often in close-up dominates the theatre. It pleads to you, it sings to you, it grimaces, laughs, it even belches at you until you are so wrapped...
MELINA MERCOURI'S GREECE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Including a wedding on Crete, the Acropolis, Athens, the Parthenon, Delphi, and the old Byzantine community of Mistras, with music by Manos Hadjidakis and singing by Miss Mercouri. Color...
...Greeks don't gripe in movie theaters. But last week in Athens packed houses were howling, hissing, booing and whistling in disgust. Zorba the Greek was having its first showings. What the audiences took most unkindly to were scenes that portrayed the people of a small village in Crete uniting to support the knife slaying of a young widow outside church and the robbing of a harlot on her deathbed. "Cretans should do something. This is disgraceful," declared Athens' daily Estia. The Pan-Cretan Union in Athens declared the film monstrous and insulting...
...Eleni Kazantzakis, however. Widow of Nikos Kazantzakis, author of the book on which the movie is based, she angrily responded: "Greeks resent being told that 60 years ago in a Cretan village simple peasants behaved inelegantly toward a dead woman. They forget my dead husband, whose tombstone in Crete was covered with excrement every day for years...