Never on Sunday is a 1960 Greek romantic comedy film starring, written by, and directed by Jules Dassin.
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Melina Mercouri plays Ilya, a free spirit seeing life through an idiosyncratic perspective, won by the lover who accepts her as she is.
Jules Dassin as Homer Thrace, classical Greek scholar, who sees Ilya as Galatea and attempts to be her Pygmalion, failing miserably.
Eliza Doolittle by George Luks 1908
The bouzouki is a musical instrument popular in Greece.
Never on Sunday
…intellectual imperialism upon indigenous joie de vivre. It constitutes a variation of the Pygmalion plus "hooker with a heart of gold" story. The film's bouzouki theme became a hit, and the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song (Manos Hadjidakis for "Never on Sunday"). It was nominated for Academy…
Bouzouki player in Athens, July 2018
Bouzouki in the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments in Athens
The tambouras of Yannis Makriyannis in the National Historical Museum, Athens