One Street Organ, One Life (1958)

Original title

Μια Λατέρνα Μια Ζωή

Directed by

Sokrates Kapsaskis

Genre

drama film

Country

Greece

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A street musician loses his wife in childbirth and gives away his baby daughter. He later struggles with deep regret over his decision.

melancholicbittersweetquietly emotionalslow-burnpoignanttenderheartfeltbleak

What happens

One Street Organ, One Life or Mia laterna, Mia Zoi (Greek: Μια λατέρνα, Μια Ζωή) is a 1958 Greek film directed by Sokrates Kapsaskis and written by Yorgos Javellas. It stars Orestis Makris, Jenny Karezi, Petros Fyssoun, Dinos Iliopoulos, Nitsa Tsaganea and Lavrentis Dianellos. The film is about a street musician who loses his wife during childbirth and puts his baby daughter up for adoption, but comes to bitterly regret it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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