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The popular Movie by Costas Ferris, Winer of Silver Bear Award Berlinale 1984.

The story of a great popular singer of rempetiko songs who was born in Smyrna in 1919 and died in Athens in 1956. The heroin’s travels, loves, professional successes and disasters. All this and a distinctive look at the events that played an important role in Greek history in the first half of the twentieth century is accompanied by the music of Stavros Xarhakos, written for the lyrics of the well-known poet Nikos Gatsos. The reconstruction of the era, the invoking of the lost ethos of the old-time singers and all the elements of a popular musical drama, make up this epic masterpiece that made history.