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The phrase appears in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, where it is spoken by the character Zorba (played by Anthony Quinn), a colorful Greek with a zest for life. Zorba has insinuated himself into the employ of Basil , a bookish Englishman who has inherited a mine in Crete. In a boat on their way to the island, Basil asks Zorba if he is married.
Zorba the Greek. (film) Zorba the Greek ( Greek: Αλέξης Ζορμπάς, Alexis Zorbas) is a 1964 drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Greek Cypriot filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis. It stars Anthony Quinn as Zorba, an earthy and boisterous Cretan peasant, and Alan Bates as Basil, the buttoned-up young intellectual he befriends.
Zorba the Greek (Greek: Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, Víos kai Politeía tou Aléxē Zorbá, Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas) is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous ...
Composer (s) Mikis Theodorakis. "Zorba's Dance" ( Greek: Ο Χορός Του Ζορμπά) is an instrumental by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. [1] The music is part of the soundtrack for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, [2] and used in the film to accompany the dance known as sirtaki. It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas.
At a time when he was both his country’s most celebrated novelist and a journalist struggling to make ends meet, “Zorba the Greek” author Nikos Kazantzakis set sail for Japan on a formative ...
Basil (name) The name Basil ( royal, kingly) comes from the male Greek name Vassilios ( Greek: Βασίλειος, female version Bασιλεία ), which first appeared during the Hellenistic period. It is derived from "basileus" (Greek: βασιλεύς ), a Greek word of pre-Hellenic origin, meaning "king", from which words such as basilica ...
Sirtaki or syrtaki [1] ( Greek: συρτάκι) is a dance of Greek origin, choreographed for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. [2] It is a recent Greek folkdance, and a mixture of "syrtos" and the slow and fast rhythms of the hasapiko dance. The dance and the accompanying music by Mikis Theodorakis are also called Zorba's dance, the Zorba or ...
European. In European bestiaries and legends, a basilisk ( / ˈbæsɪlɪsk / or / ˈbæzɪlɪsk / [1]) is a legendary reptile reputed to be a serpent king, who causes death to those who look into its eyes. According to the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, the basilisk of Cyrene is a small snake, "being not more than twelve inches in ...