Stuk 0044 - A Scene from "Zobra the Greek"

326-IM-0024-0044

A Scene from "Zobra the Greek"

• 1967-08-23 (Vervaardig)

Stuk

Images

The Times of Ceylon Press

Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates and Irene Paps star in "Zorba the Greek," which opens tomorrow at the Savoy Theatre. The film version of a famous novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, "Zorba the Greek was filmed on location on the island of Crete, the actual setting of the novel.
"Zorba the Greek" is about a young British writer, played by Alan Bates, who journeys to the island of Crete to take charge of a lignite mine bequeathed him by his Greek father. In the course of his traveling through Greece he teams up with Zorba, a grizzled old Greek ruffian with a keen sense of adventure and romance.
The film recounts the escapades of the ribald Zorba and his youthful, intellectual companion and employer as they try to revitalise the lignite mine. This film is rated a screen classic.

• Film

• Greece

• The Times of Ceylon Press (Archiefvormer)

Afbeelding

image/tiff

44.8 MiB

24 mei 2015 23:25