"To Marianna" ""Cinema is a window open to the world"" "Andre Bazin" "How's your mama?" "Just the same." "Have you been in Australia?" "In America." "Is it nice there?" "It's very nice." "Mother!" "Mother..." ""Optimism" (poem of Kostas Karyotakis)" "Let us assume we did not reach the sable deadlock, the abyss of mind." "Let us assume the woods are already here with the imperial harness of a morning triumph with the fowls of the air with the light of the skies" "and with the sun that will pierce them through." "Let us assume we are round there in unknown countries of the West, of the North." "While we fling our winter coat onto the air the foreigners are looking curiously, soberly." "For receiving us dearly a certain noble lady sent the servants away all day long." "Let us assume the brim of the hat was suddenly let out but our trousers became tighter, fitter and at the command of the spur they set in motion thousands of horses." "We set to go" " flags are flying in the wind - heroes crusaders saviors of the Savior" "Let us assume we did not reach through a hundred roads the frontiers of silence" "and let us sing, a song like a victorious trumpet call an outburst of cry" "both the fire demons in the bowels of the earth and, up high, the humankind" "to entertain." "My name is Yiannis." "I'm 35 years old." "I live in America." "I was born here." "I'm constantly away for six years." "Six years!" "I've got nobody in the world." "Merely, my mama." "She's in hospital." "She has cancer." "I think I've brought her a great joy by being here." "My name is Anna." "I grew up in Patras." "My mother abandoned us when I was four years old." "I've never seen her again." "I graduated from conservatoire three years ago." "This year I was appointed for the first time as a teacher" "of singing." "My father is too old now." "Is it nice to live in New York?" " Hands off the girl!" " Attaboy!" "Old mate!" "My name is..." "Nick." "I'm an opera singer." "I'm on holiday here." "I work abroad." "New York..." "Los Angeles..." "Boston..." "My mother is doing very well." "She's waiting for me to have lunch." ""Lucia"?" "Is it nice to live in New York?" "Will you take me there?" "If you love me." "Without you I would be lost." "It's just enough for us" "Just a wave at the seashore is enough for us" "And a little home" "And a mean little home on the sandy beach" "It's just enough for us" "It's just enough for us" "Our warm embrace" "Our love" "That blooms" "In our heart" "I'm late." "We didn't hear the alarm clock." " We got to bed late." " It's your fault!" ""It pays to plan ahead." "It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."" "Folk wisdom." "Why should I part from you every morning?" "My name is Yiannis." "I'm 35 years old." "I love Anna." "My name is Yiannis." "I'm 35 years old." "I love Anna." ""The deed comes back upon the doer."" "Folk wisdom." "Do you believe in folk wisdom?" "What do you believe in?" "In you." "It's your mama!" "We'd been cleaning her shit and feeding her for years!" "Now you must manage on your own." "I got to look after my little children." "I'm afraid to take her home." "She's half rotten." "And what have you made all those years in America?" "You've not even brought a car along!" "Manage on your own." "My nerves are in tatters." "Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy upon us!" "Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy upon us!" "Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy upon us!" ""A good beginning makes a good ending."" "Folk wisdom." ""A good beginning makes a good ending."" "Hi there, American!" " Why do you call me American?" " Aren't you American?" "My name is Yiannis." "I'm 35 years old." "My profession... is... engineer of tape recording." "Maybe it seems ridiculous but it's a profession that requires amazing abilities." "This isn't just a simple recording." "It's about a hi-fi stereo recording." " Hello." " Hello." " I'm Yiannis' father." " Of Yiannis?" " Of little Yiannis." " Oh!" "Please to meet you." "We just finished the lesson." " Do come in." " Thanks." "I won't." "A little present for you." " I can't accept it." " Please, don't offend me." "I'm an admirer of you." "Music was my dream." "Unfortunately, my father didn't let me attend the conservatoire." "I was compelled to follow his line of work." "It's a long story." "Don't force me to tell you." "It causes me pain." "Good bye." "My name is Anna." "I'm a teacher of singing." "I'm a stranger in this town." "I'm a stranger in every place." "I'd like to say something" "Still I don't know what." "I'm..." "I'm..." "Stop!" "My mind stopped working." "Bravo!" "Bravo!" "It's very good." ""Cleanliness is next to godliness."" "Folk wisdom." "Mother!" "Money run out." "I have exactly 52 drachmas." "Even that could happen one day." "Mother!" "I don't grieve because you're dying." "I grieve because you haven't lived." ""The sooner, the better."" "Folk wisdom." ""Haste makes waste." Folk wisdom." "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name." "Thy kingdom come" "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." " Amen." " Amen." "My wife died during childbirth." "We sink into this town." "When I was very young, I fought in Greek People's Liberation Army." "At least there was a time when we lived intensely." "Let me show you a picture of my wife." "She was very pretty." "Very pretty..." "Our wedding." "This is my father." "Did you buy this one for me?" "With what money?" "They sent me a cheque..." "from America." "Where have you been hanging out, American?" " Why do you keep calling me American?" " Aren't you American?" "American!" "American!" "American!" ""Anna."" "Anna!" "Move on, American." "Here's the Balkans!" ""Yiannis."" "My name is Yiannis..." "I'm 35 years old." "I did absolutely nothing in America." "America does not exist." "Last night I made love with Anna." "The night before the last I made love with Anna" "The other night before" "Anna was unwell." "I masturbated." "I liked it very much." "I owe to hospital 45,000 drachmas." "If I eat absolutely nothing" "If I sleep on the street" "If I don't smoke any cigarette at all" "In exactly five months, I'll have paid my debt in full." "However I will still owe the full amount of the five months in between." "This morning as soon as I opened my eyes" "I found my bed unusually pleasant." "I was hungry and I wanted to smoke." "I decided to give up my job." "My name is Yiannis..." ""My name is Yiannis..."" "You repeat that again and again." "What does "Yiannis" mean?" "Yia nnis."