Stelios Kazantzidis - Film

Film

Greek popular music had long been intertwined with Greek post-war cinema. In the 50s and 60s, almost every film contained portions of music performed on screen, often by Kazantzidis.

  • I kyria dimarhos (1960) - The mayoress
  • Paixe, bouzouki mou glyko (1965) - Play, my sweet Bouzouki
  • I timoria (1965) - The punishment
  • Afiste me na ziso (1965) - Let me live
  • Adistaktoi (1965) - The Ruthless
  • Oi angeloi tis amartias (To limani) (1966) - Angels of sin
  • Foukarades kai leftades (1966) - Poor men and rich men
  • Eho dikaioma na s' agapo! (1966) - I have the right to love you
  • O gerontokoros (1967) - The old single man
  • I ora tis dikaiosynis (1967) - The hour of justice
  • Adiki katara (1967) - Unjust Curse
  • Ta psihoula tou kosmou (1968) - The breadcrumbs of the world
  • Oi andres den lygizoun pote! (1968) - Men never expire
  • O gigas tis Kypselis (1968) - The giant of Kypselis
  • Kravges ston anemo (1976) - Shouts in the wind

Two of his songs ("To Psomi tis Ksenitias" and "Efige Efige") are featured in Season 2 of the hit HBO TV series The Wire, during the season's second-to-last episode, "Bad Dreams". The first is heard in the background of a restaurant while the second is heard in multiple of the final scenes of the episode; the music was not sourced anywhere on set, a technique rarely used by the show's producers.

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