“Zorba the Greek” quotes
(1964)
Title Zorba the Greek
Original title Alexis Zorbas
Year 1964
Director Mihalis Kakogiannis
Genre Drama, Adventure
Original title Alexis Zorbas
Year 1964
Director Mihalis Kakogiannis
Genre Drama, Adventure
Plot – A young English writer goes to Crete to take possession of an abandoned mine that he inherited from his parents. During the trip he becomes friend with Zorba, a mysterious Greek guy. Once on the island, Zorba seduces Hortensia, a former French dancer, while the writer is attracted by a young and desired widow. Zorba organizes a ridiculously brilliant plan to reactivate the mine, so he goes to town to buy the materials. Here, however, he wastes all the money that the writer gave him, while Hortensia waits for him to marry her. The rumors that the writer was hosted in the unapproachable house of the widow spread in the village and a young man in love with her kills himself. The father of the guy kills the widow. When Zorba returns to the village, he pitifully marries Hortensia, but the woman dies soon after the wedding. The disastrous economic failure of the mine doesn’t upset the optimistic Zorba, who happily takes possession of the English writer’s reserved personality.
All actors – Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova, Sotiris Moustakas, Anna Kyriakou, Eleni Anousaki, Yorgo Voyagis, Takis Emmanuel, Giorgos Foundas, George P. Cosmatos
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“Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe.”
“You think too much. That is your trouble. Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything.”
“- Basil: An overhead cable? You're mad.
- Alexis Zorba: Why?
- Basil: That forest doesn't belong to us.
- Alexis Zorba: Well, it doesn't, and then it does.
- Basil: What does that mean?
- Alexis Zorba: It belong to the monastery. The monastery belongs to God, and God belongs to everybody. Do you agree?”“On a deaf man's door, you can knock forever.”
“All right, we go outside where God can see us better.”
“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.”
“If a woman sleeps alone, it puts a shame on all men.”
“- Alexis Zorba: Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it. You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...
- Basil: Or else?
- Alexis Zorba: ...he never dares cut the rope and be free.”“What kind of man are you, don't you even like dolphins?”
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