The Roads are Closed --- Giannis Poulopoulos & (maybe) Aina Maurer

We've been in this bar -- the saddest bar in the western hemisphere -- before.  It was here that the bass player had to hold his bass at an angle due to the low ceiling, it was here that nobody cracked even the faintest smile*, it was outside the bar that and it was here that yet another drunk and despairing man danced the Zemebekiko.  If you don't remember or only found this blog recently, I highly encourage you to revisit in order to re-familiarize yourself with the surroundings and to get acclimated to the air of gloom because...

Because things only get worse...

The music is beautiful -- the interplay between the accordion, bouzouki and vocals is almost unworldly.  As far as I can tell it is the same band as we saw previously, including the cramped bass player, except Mr. Poulopoulos' partner onstage is Aina Maurer, not Despina Stravroulakis.  

While they are singing their sad song, two men, (oddly enough, bearing a slight resemblance to John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) come into the bar and have chat with the super-cute barkeep.  They beckon Ms Mauer over, deliver some bad news, and things end in tears.  All in all a fairly devastating scene.

Ms. Mauer, if the commentators below the video are to be believed was either Dutch or Belgian and allegedly made frequent appearances on television more as a comic and dancer, speaking Greek with a broken accent.  Several commentators speculate on whether the dialogue and the beautiful singing are hers or if they are overdubbed -- a common practice in these movies...

*actually the bartender smiled a short, sweet and cute smile in the early part of that video, as he does here, but he quickly wiped it away...