Word: mamma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directors have given the movie vitality and power. Since it was shot outdoors in all sorts of weather, the film credibly suggests the passing of time simply because no two scenes show the same sky or lighting. The camera, often threading through Stark's career like a fond mamma looking for her child in a crowd, turns up all kinds of unpredictable and realistic touches. Occasionally, Director Rossen plunges spiritedly into a scene as though, in the Rossellini manner, he were making up the script as he went along...
More, he rescues a rich maiden from pirates in the Mediterranean, marries her and comes home in triumph to tell his dominating mamma where she can get off. Sir William and Despina didn't live ever after, but they did live for quite a while and got along fine. To readers who know 41-year-old Osbert Lancaster's irreverent books on English architecture and his tartly urbane Classical Landscape with
Twins on the Right. Many of Erato's Greek countrymen would answer that question with a violent yes; Mamma Erato's son is Nicholas ("Nico") Zach-ariades, leader of the Communist guerrillas who harass Greece from the north. But the butcher is gentler. "There are no real Communists in Greece," he says, "only misery...
...Mamma Erato has other children. Her pretty twin daughters Fofo and Sasa married rich right-wingers and live comfortably in a fashionable quarter of Athens, where they do their best to forget their relationship to the rebel chieftain. Another son, 34-year-old Mimi, lives in the dingy room with Erato, but he is a poor substitute for Nico. Vacillating, weak-chinned Mimi is often sullen and bitter because the government kicked him out of his longtime job in a local bank when he refused to sign an anti-Communist affidavit, but Mamma Erato has no use for his tiresome...
From that time on, Mamma Erato spent her life reading of her son's doings in the newspapers or visiting him in jails. "For nine years I went to different prisons," she says, "taking him food and clean clothes. He likes to be tidy and neat." Now she is denied even that. No word comes to her from Nico himself and only a very occasional note from his Czech wife Mania to tell Erato that all is well with...