Xanthopoulos Vourtsis -- On the road of my life
One band is getting ready to play, the other is onstage. The on-deck singer, Martha (Nitsa Antonatou) hears her long lost husband, Nikos (Xanthopoulos Vourtsis) singing and joins in. Soon they are singing harmony and walking towards each other in a delirious daze. There is a brief hug at the end (but if you watch the movie there is more hugging and kissing and within two minutes the movie ends as they walk down the street together arm in arm.
My sense is that the instrumental introduction and interlude seems very closely related to the great Mexican song Cielito Lindo. Coincidence?
From the 1965 Movie Καρδιά μου πάψε να πονάς (or, as my buddy Google translates it, "My Heart Stop Hurting". -- no idea whether this is a command or that it should be "Stops").
I did watch much of the movie (sadly without subtitles so I couldn't make heads or tails of the dialog) and I can cheerfully report that it is chock-full of great musical performances from both of the leads and other fine singers and musicians (hopefully there are more separate videos out there). My sense is that Tony Montana (from the imdb website) does a better job of summarizing the plot than I possibly could, although I have no clue what he means by "the sprockets of the night" and I don't believe that Martha had a wife.
Nikos plays a bouzouki and tries to make ends meet to feed his wife and child. But he sings on the sprockets of the night, deceives him, and finds himself in jail for smuggling. Kaiti's daughter will become seriously ill and will need urgent surgery. Martha's wife will not tell him anything and in her despair to find money he will accept the proposal of rich George to become his mistress in return for him to pay for the surgery.
You can watch the full movie here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xylndb
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