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Zorba is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander.Adapted from the 1946 novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis and the subsequent 1964 film of the same name, it focuses on the friendship that evolves between Zorba and Nikos, a young American who has inherited an abandoned mine on Crete, and their romantic relationships with a local widow and a ...
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.
It was later translated as Zorba the Greek and also adapted into Zorba musical (1968) and an Academy Award-nominated film, Zorba the Greek (1964), wherein his role was played by Anthony Quinn. [ 2 ] His life continued in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , where he settled in 1922 with his 10-year-old daughter, Katerina.
The book opens in a café in Piraeus, just before dawn on a gusty autumn morning sometime after the end of World War I.The narrator, a young Greek intellectual, resolves to set aside his books for a few months after being stung by the parting words of a friend, Stavridakis, who has left for the Russian Caucasus and Ukraine to help the Caucasus Greeks and Ukrainian Greeks who were facing ...
Zorba the Greek, a 1964 movie based on the novel; Zorba, a musical based on the novel and film "Zorba's Dance", a song by Mikis Theodorakis featured in the film; Zorba the Hutt, a Star Wars Legends character; The Zorba family, main characters from the 1960 horror film 13 Ghosts; Zorba (music group), a psy-trance side project of GMS
Nikos Kazantzakis (/ k æ z æ n ˈ z æ k ɪ s /; Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης [ˈnikos kazanˈd͡zakis]; 2 March (OS 18 February) 1883 [2] – 26 October 1957) was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher.
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 "the ...
Anacrostic may be the most accurate term used, and hence most common, as it is a portmanteau of anagram and acrostic, referencing the fact that the solution is an anagram of the clue answers, and the author of the quote is hidden in the clue answers acrostically.