One Street Organ, One Life (1958)
Μια Λατέρνα Μια Ζωή
An organ grinder (Orestis Makris) loses his wife from complications during birth. Distraught by her death, he refuses to take care of the baby and gives it to a family (Lavrentis Dianellos and Nitsa Tsaganea) to raise. The child (Jenny Karezi) is raised comfortably, and her natural father is too embarrassed to meet her - until she falls in love with a poor musician (Petros Fysoun), and her foster parents refuse to accept their relationship.
- Date of release
- 1958-11-28
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Sokrates Kapsaskis
Casting
- Orestis Makris — Kosmas
- Jenny Karezi — Nina
- Petros Fyssoun — Nikos
- Dinos Iliopoulos — Thanasis
- Nitsa Tsaganea — Labros' wife
- Lavrentis Dianellos — Labros
- Nikos Fermas — tavern owner
- Rallis Angelidis — agent
- Thanos Tzeneralis — doctor
- Antigoni Koukouli — Litsa
- Lakis Skellas
- Nitsa Pappa
Interesting facts
One Street Organ, One Life or Mia laterna, Mia Zoi 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.
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