Editing Zorba the Greek (film)

{{Short description|1964 film by Michael Cacoyannis}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Zorba the Greek
| image          = Zorba the Greek poster.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Original film poster
| director       = [[Michael Cacoyannis]]
| producer       = Michael Cacoyannis
| screenplay     = Michael Cacoyannis
| based_on       = {{Based on|''[[Zorba the Greek (novel)|Zorba the Greek]]''<br>1946 novel|[[Nikos Kazantzakis]]}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Anthony Quinn]]
* [[Alan Bates]]
* [[Irene Papas]]
* [[Lila Kedrova]]
* [[Sotiris Moustakas]]
* Anna Kyriakou
}}
| music          = [[Mikis Theodorakis]]
| cinematography = [[Walter Lassally]]
| editing        = Michael Cacoyannis
| distributor    = [[20th Century Fox]]<br />[[Searchlight Pictures|International Classics]]<ref name="afi"/>
| released       = {{Film date|df=yes|1964|12|14|Greece|1964|12|17|New York City|ref2=<ref name="afi">{{cite web |url=http://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/22430#3 |title=Zorba the Greek - Details |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |access-date=3 August 2018 }}</ref>}}
| runtime        = 142 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 141:59--><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/zorba-greek-film | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220031607/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/zorba-greek-film | url-status=dead | archive-date=20 December 2016 | title=''Zorba the Greek'' (X) | work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=12 January 1965 | access-date=2 December 2016}}</ref>
| country        = {{Plainlist|
* United States<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/22430 |access-date=2022-03-20 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref>
* United Kingdom
* Greece
}}
| language       = {{Plainlist|
* English
* Greek
}}
| budget         = $783,000<ref name="imdb">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057831/business?ref_=tt_dt_bus Box Office Information for ''Zorba the Greek''.] [[IMDb]]. Retrieved 19 May 2013.</ref><ref name="Silverman p 259">Silverman p 259</ref>
| gross          = $23.5 million
}}
'''''Zorba the Greek''''' ({{langx|el|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 [[Crete|Cretan]] peasant, and [[Alan Bates]] as Basil, the buttoned-up young intellectual he befriends. The cast also includes [[Lila Kedrova]], [[Irene Papas]], and [[Sotiris Moustakas]]. The musical score was composed by [[Mikis Theodorakis]]. The film is based on the 1946 novel ''[[Zorba the Greek|The Life and Times of Alexis Zorba]]'' by [[Nikos Kazantzakis]].

The film centers on Zorba and Basil's misadventures in trying to build a [[lignite]] mine through an impoverished Cretan village, as their polar different personalities lead them into affairs and schemes that have disastrous results, culminating in the village's evacuation by its populace. Much of the film's interactions focus on the lead characters' views and attitudes, culminating in the final scene where they dance joyfully before parting ways.

Though the film has elements of [[comedy]], and Kazantzakis's anti-hero Zorba has been generally understood as a 'life-affirming' personality (faithfully reproduced in Cacoyannis's screenplay), it features a gruesome femicide, and Zorba's cynical, egotistical and manipulative personality combined with his determined optimism is explicitly shown to be a response to, and in defiance of, the cruelties and vicissitudes of life.

Produced in Greece for under $1 million, ''Zorba'' was a considerable critical and commercial success, grossing over nine times its production budget at the U.S. box office alone. At the [[37th Academy Awards]], the film won awards for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] (Kedrova), [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]] and [[Academy Award for Best Art Direction|Best Art Direction]]. Other nominations included [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], and [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] for Anthony Quinn, whose performance also popularized the folk dance known as the [[sirtaki]]. The film and its source novel were later adapted into a [[Tony Awards|Tony]]-winning [[Zorba (musical)|stage musical]], in which Cacoyannis, Quinn, and Kedrova all participated.

==Plot==
Basil is a staid, somewhat buttoned-up, middle-class [[Greeks in the United Kingdom|Greek-British]] writer raised in the [[United Kingdom]]. While at the [[Athens]] port of [[Piraeus]] waiting to catch a [[ferry]] to [[Crete]] he meets a middle-aged [[peasant]] and musician named Zorba who carries only a [[Santur|santouri]] in a case, in contrast to Basil's large quantity of luggage, including cases of books. Basil explains to Zorba that he is travelling to a Cretan village where he owns some land with the intention of re-opening a [[lignite]] mine and perhaps curing his [[writer's block]]. Zorba has already related that he has experience as a miner and inveigles himself a position as Basil's [[Shop foreman|foreman]] and [[Handyman|factotum]].

When they arrive at the Cretan village they are greeted enthusiastically by the impoverished populace. They lodge initially with an elderly French former [[cabaret]] dancer named Madame Hortense in her self-styled "Hotel Ritz". Hortense relates her glamorous and exotic past as a [[courtesan]] among the competing [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] powers, hinting that she was the lover of an Italian Admiral called Cannavaro (after whom she has named her pet [[parrot]]). Zorba tries to persuade Basil to enter into a relationship with Madame Hortense, but he is reluctant so Zorba, with an eye on the main chance, seizes the opportunity, somewhat cynically exercising his considerable charm on the lonely woman.

Zorba admits to Basil that he has a chequered past, having been guilty of rape and murder as a soldier, his excuse being that they were 'only' Bulgarians and Turks. He asserts that now, however, he rejects nationalism and bears no-one any grudges. He also shows Basil his battle wounds, 'all in front' (an oblique reference to [[Alexander the Great]]).

Over the next few days, Basil and Zorba attempt to work the old lignite mine, but it collapses and Zorba narrowly avoids injury.  Zorba then has an idea to use the forest in the nearby mountains to source lumber to make new pit-props to replace the rotten timbers of the mine. The land is owned by a [[monastery]]. Zorba tricks the [[monk]]s into believing that a miracle has occurred, as part of a ploy to get them to give up the timber. Exultant, when he gets home he breaks spontaneously into a dance, the so-called 'butcher's dance' or [[sirtaki]] in a scene which contrasts his exultant egotism with Basil's nervous inhibition.

Zorba designs a system by which tree-trunks can be sent down the mountain suspended from a wire.

Among the other residents is a young and attractive widowed woman who is resented and hated by the villagers for not remarrying. A young local boy, the son of one of the more important peasants, is madly in love with her, but she has spurned him repeatedly. One rainy afternoon, Basil offers her his umbrella, which she reluctantly takes. Zorba, who increasingly treats his 'Boss' as a pupil or nephew, knowingly suggests that she is attracted to him, but Basil, ever shy, refuses to pursue her.

To get supplies to build the zip-wire to bring the timbers down the mountain, Basil gives Zorba some money and sends him to the large port of [[Chania]] to buy cable and other supplies.  But in Chania Zorba gets drunk, visits a cabaret, and spends money on presents and on drinking [[champagne]] with a cabaret dancer/hospitality girl with whom he spends the night. He also has his hair dyed as a symbol of his rediscovered youth and potency. In a letter to Basil, he details his exploits. Angered by Zorba's irresponsibility and the squandering of his money, Basil untruthfully tells Madame Hortense, who is smitten with Zorba but feels abandoned, that Zorba intends to marry her upon his return, upon hearing which she is ecstatic. Meanwhile, the Widow returns Basil's umbrella by way of Mimithos, the [[village idiot]].

Basil, after much agonising, and untypically unshaven and perhaps drunk, goes to the Widow's house. She lets him in but then she sheds some tears. Embarrassed, he decides to leave but she stops him and they spend the night together. However, their assignation has been observed by the jealous men of the village.

When Zorba eventually returns with the supplies and gifts he is surprised and angered to hear of Basil's lie to Madame Hortense. He also asks Basil about his whereabouts the night before.  The brief encounter comes at a great cost. Word spreads of Basil's visit to the Widow and the men of the village, to make trouble, tell the youth who is in love with her, whereupon he drowns himself. When the widow attempts to attend the [[funeral]], she is blocked from entering the church by the youth's father. The villagers blame her for the boy's [[suicide]], though the clear implication is that she has been condemned for on the one hand being sexually active after the death of her husband and on the other rejecting the men of the village, personified by the boy. Some of the men of the village corral her outside the church and begin to stone her, watched and encouraged by the villagers. Basil, unable to push through the crowd to intervene, sends Mimithos to fetch Zorba. Zorba arrives just as the villager who had maliciously informed the boy of Basil's tryst is about to kill the widow with his knife - with the explicit approval of the boy's father who is watching on. Zorba overpowers the younger man and disarms him but, thinking that the situation is under control, when he asks the widow to follow him and turns to go, the dead boy's father pulls his knife and cuts the widow's throat himself. The villagers close ranks around the father and his accomplices, shielding them as they all disperse, leaving only the outsiders, Basil, Zorba, and the idiot Mimithos, who is distraught. Basil laments his inability to intervene, and Zorba angrily laments the meaninglessness of the widow's death and of all deaths. Neither of them blames the villagers explicitly or remark on the barbarity of the widow's murder. The film cuts to a scene in which Basil, Zorba and the villagers construct the zip-wire system for the timber, to the accompaniment of light-hearted music on the soundtrack.

On a rainy day, Basil and Zorba come home and find Madame Hortense waiting. She expresses anger at Zorba for making no progress on the wedding. Zorba conjures up a story that he had ordered a white satin wedding dress, lined with pearls and adorned with real gold. Madame Hortense presents two golden rings she had made and proposes their immediate engagement. Zorba tries to stall, but eventually agrees with gusto, to Basil's surprise.

Some time later, Madame Hortense contracts [[pneumonia]] and is seen on her deathbed. Zorba stays by her side, along with Basil. Meanwhile, word spreads that "the foreigner" is dying, and since she has no heirs, the State will take her possessions and money. The poor villagers crowd around her hotel, impatiently waiting for her demise so they can steal her belongings. As two old ladies enter her room and gaze expectantly at her, other women try to enter, but Zorba manages to fight them off. At the instant of her death, the women re-enter Madame Hortense's bedroom ''en masse'' to steal her valued possessions. Zorba leaves with a sigh, as the hotel is ransacked and stripped bare by the shrieking and excited villagers. When Zorba returns to Madame Hortense's bedroom, the room is barren apart from her bed (where she lies) and the parrot in her cage. Zorba takes the birdcage with him.

Finally, Zorba's elaborate contraption to transport timber down the hill is complete. A festive ceremony is held, including lamb roasting on a [[Rotisserie|spit]] and a barrel of wine, and all the villagers attend. After a blessing from the priests, Zorba signals by firing a rifle in the air and log is sent hurtling down the zip line but at excessive speed, destroying the log itself and slightly damaging part of the contraption. Zorba pretends to be unconcerned and gives orders for a second log to be sent down. This one also comes down too quickly and overshoots straight into the sea. By now the villagers and priests have grown fearful and head for cover. Zorba remains unfazed and signals for the third log, which accelerates with such violence that it destroys the entire contraption creating havoc among the crowd. The villagers and monks flee in terror, leaving only Basil and Zorba amidst the wreckage.

They sit by the shore to eat the roasted lamb and drink the wine alone. Zorba pretends to tell the future from a lamb bone, saying that he foresees a great journey to a big city. He asks Basil when he plans to leave, and Basil replies that he will go in a few days. Zorba tells him that the one thing Basil is missing is the element of 'madness' that enables a man to 'break free' (the implication being, free from circumstance, responsibility, care). They begin to laugh hysterically at the catastrophic outcome of their scheme and the effect on the villagers. Basil asks Zorba to teach him to dance, and the film ends with both men enthusiastically dancing the sirtaki on the deserted shore.

==Cast==
* [[Anthony Quinn]] as Alexis Zorba ({{langx|el|Αλέξης Ζορμπάς}}), a fictionalized version of the mine worker [[George Zorbas]] ({{langx|el|Γιώργης Ζορμπάς}} 1867–1941)<ref>{{citation |first=Thomas R. | last=Lindlof |title=Hollywood under siege |date=8 August 2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blepPjQL9I0C&pg=PA16 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0813173160}}</ref>
* [[Alan Bates]] as Basil
* [[Irene Papas]] as the Widow
* [[Lila Kedrova]] as Madame Hortense
* [[Sotiris Moustakas]] as Mimithos
* [[Anna Kyriakou]] as Soul
* [[:el:Ελένη Ανουσάκη|Eleni Anousaki]] as Lola
* [[Yorgo Voyagis|George Voyadjis]] as Pavlo
* [[Takis Emmanuel]] as Manolakas
* [[Giorgos Fountas|George Foundas]] as Mavrandoni
* [[Pia Lindström]] (deleted scenes) as Peasant girl

==Production==
The film was shot in [[black and white]] on location on the [[List of islands of Greece|Greek island]] of [[Crete]]. Specific locations featured include the city of [[Chania]], the village of [[Kokkino Chorio]] in the [[Apokoronas]] region and Stavros Beach in the [[Akrotiri (Crete)|Akrotiri]] [[peninsula]]. The scene in which Quinn's character dances the Sirtaki was filmed on the beach of the village of [[Stavros, Chania|Stavros]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stavros on Crete and the famous beach where the film Alexis Zorba was shot.|url=http://www.crete-guide.info/Stavros.htm|access-date=2021-06-24|website=www.crete-guide.info}}</ref>

[[Simone Signoret]] began filming the role of Madame Hortense; [[Lila Kedrova]] replaced her early in the production.<ref name="Osborne">{{cite book |title=65 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards |last=Osborne |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Osborne |year=1994 |publisher=Abbeville Press |location=London |isbn=1-55859-715-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/65yearsofoscarof00osbo/page/180 180] |url=https://archive.org/details/65yearsofoscarof00osbo/page/180 |url-access=registration }}</ref>

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film was a smash hit. Produced on a budget of only $783,000,<ref name="imdb"/> it grossed $9 million at the U.S. box office,<ref name="numbers">[http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1964/0ZRBA.php Box Office Information for ''Zorba the Greek''.] [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]. Retrieved 19 May 2013.</ref> earning $4.4 million in U.S. [[Gross rental|theatrical rentals]].<ref>Solomon, Aubrey. ''Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-4244-1}}. p. 229. See also "Big Rental Pictures of 1965", ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', 5 January 1966 p. 6</ref> At the worldwide box office, the film earned $9.4 million in rentals,<ref name="imdb"/> placing the worldwide gross between $18.8 million and $23.5 million. It was the [[1964 in film|17th highest-grossing film of 1964]].

According to Fox Records, the film needed to earn $3,000,000 in rentals to break even and made $9,400,000.<ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/324 324]|title=The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox|url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv|url-access=registration|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M|year=1988|publisher=L. Stuart|isbn=9780818404856 }}</ref> By September 1970 it earned the studio an estimated profit of $2,565,000.<ref name="Silverman p 259">Silverman p 259</ref>

===Critical response===

Reviews of the film were generally positive, with Anthony Quinn and Lila Kedrova receiving numerous accolades for their performances, although a few critics found fault with the screenplay. [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' lauded Quinn for a "brilliant performance" and Kedrova for her "brilliantly realized" character, citing the only real weakness of the film as a lack of "significant conflict to prove its dominant character. Zorba is powerful and provocative, but nobody gets in his way."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|author-link=Bosley Crowther|date=18 December 1964|title=Screen: 'Zorba, the Greek' Is at Sutton|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/18/archives/screen-zorba-the-greek-is-at-suttonanthony-quinn-stars-in.html|journal=[[The New York Times]]|page=25}}</ref> Margaret Harford of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' declared that the film would "stand among the year's best motion pictures, an unusual, engrossing effort" with spots both "outrageously funny" and "painfully sad and tragic."<ref>Harford, Margaret (18 December 1964). "'Zorba' Fascinating Tragicomedy". ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. Part V, p. 17.</ref>

[[Richard L. Coe]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' deemed it "a memorable picture" with a "bravura performance" from Quinn, adding that "Lila Kedrova as the dying Mme Hortense is spectacularly touching."<ref>{{cite news |last=Coe |first=Richard L. |author-link=Richard L. Coe |date=11 February 1965 |title=Tony Quinn As Life Force |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |page=C10 }}</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' found the film excessively long (at around two hours and thirty minutes) and overstuffed, writing that Cacoyannis's screenplay was "packed with incidents of varying moods, so packed, in fact, that some of the more important ones cannot be developed fully."<ref>{{cite journal |date=16 December 1964 |title=Film Reviews: Zorba the Greek |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=6 }}</ref> [[Brendan Gill]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' wrote that Cacoyannis had directed the film with "enormous verve" but had written a "not very tidy, not very plausible screenplay." Gill particularly praised Kedrova's performance and thought that she "comes within an ace of stealing the picture from Quinn."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gill |first=Brendan |date=19 December 1964 |title=The Current Cinema |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |page=151 }}</ref> ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote that the film began well, but by the time the characters went to Crete "the pace slows to a crawl, and the narrative line becomes blurred in a series of unrelated incidents of doubtful significance." The review concluded that for all its length, "the film never gets down to a clear statement of its theme, or comes within measuring the distance of its vast pretensions."<ref>{{cite journal |date=April 1965 |title=Zorba The Greek |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=32 |issue=375 |page=54 }}</ref>

{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|80|7.8|15|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}<ref name="rotten tomatoes">{{Citation|title=Zorba the Greek|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/zorba_the_greek/|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=3 August 2018}}</ref> On both sides of the Atlantic, ''Zorba'' was applauded and Quinn came in for the best reviews. He was lauded as Zorba, along with the other stars, including Greek-born Papas, who worked with Quinn on ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]''.

=== Awards and nominations ===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!Award
! Category<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/56204/Zorba-the-Greek/awards |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928030245/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/56204/Zorba-the-Greek/awards |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-09-28 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2009 |title=NY Times: Zorba the Greek |access-date=2008-12-25}}</ref> !! Nominee!! Result 
|-
| rowspan="7" |[[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] || rowspan="3" | [[Michael Cacoyannis]]|| {{nom}} 
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || {{nom}} 
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]] || {{nom}} 
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] || [[Anthony Quinn]]|| {{nom}} 
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] || [[Lila Kedrova]]|| {{won}} 
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)]] || [[Vassilis Photopoulos]]|| {{won}} 
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)]] || [[Walter Lassally]]|| {{won}} 
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Award]]
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Film from any Source|Best Film from any Source]]
|Michael Cacoyannis
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actor]]
|Anthony Quinn
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actress]]
|Lila Kedrova
|{{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="5" |[[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]]
| colspan="2" |[[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|Michael Cacoyannis
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama|Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama]]
|Anthony Quinn
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
|Lila Kedrova
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Mikis Theodorakis]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]]
|[[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media]]
|{{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[National Board of Review]]
| colspan="2" |[[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
|{{won}}
|-
|[[National Board of Review Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
|Anthony Quinn
|{{won}}
|}

==Preservation==
The [[Academy Film Archive]] preserved ''Zorba the Greek'' in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=Zorba+the+greek&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
In a 15 January 1968 ''[[Peanuts]]'' comic strip, [[Snoopy]] is happily dancing atop of his doghouse with [[Lucy Van Pelt|Lucy]] looking on until the final panel where she comments: "Zorba the Greek, you aren't!".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1968/01/15|title=January 15, 1968-Peanuts|work=gocomics.com}}</ref>

In a 16 July 1991 ''[[Big Nate]]'' comic strip, Nate mistakes the name of the movie as "Zorba the Geek".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peirce |first=Lincoln |date=1991-07-16 |title=Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for July 16, 1991 {{!}} GoComics.com |url=https://www.gocomics.com/bignate/1991/07/16 |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=GoComics |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==

* "[[Zorbas]]", the theme song of the film by Greek composer [[Mikis Theodorakis]]
* ''[[Zorba (musical)]]'', a musical based on the book

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0057831|Zorba the Greek}}
* {{AFI film|22430|Zorba the Greek}}
* {{TCMDb title|96681|Zorba the Greek}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|zorba_the_greek|Zorba the Greek}}

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