Title: Zorba the Greek (film)
Content:  Zorba the Greek (Αλέξης Ζορμπάς, Alexis Zorbas) is a 1964 Greek comedy-drama movie written, produced, edited, and directed by Greek Cypriot Michael Cacoyannis and featuring Anthony Quinn as the titular character. Based on the 1946 novel The Life And Times Of Alexis Zorba by Nikos Kazantzakis, the movie's cast includes Alan Bates, Lila Kedrova, Irene Papas, and Sotiris Moustakas.
Title: Zorba the Greek
Content:  The novel was adapted into the Academy Award-winning 1964 film Zorba the Greek directed by Michael Cacoyannis starring Anthony Quinn as Zorba and Alan Bates: the film won three Academy Awards. It was also adapted into a 1968 musical, Zorba as well as a 1993 two-part radio play, Zorba the Greek, part of the BBC's Classic Serial radio series, starring Robert Stephens as Zorba and Michael Maloney. In addition to the film winning the three Academy Awards, as mentioned, "Zorba" also became a household name. The book has been adapted many more times in languages other than English, including a 1972 German-language telemovie, and a 1987–88 ballet, Zorba il Greco, by Mikis Theodorakis produced at the Verona Arena.
Title: Zorba the Greek (film)
Content:  Washington Post deemed it "a memorable picture" with a "bravura performance" from Quinn, adding that "Lila Kedrova as the dying Mme Hortense is spectacularly touching." Variety found the film excessively long and overstuffed, writing that Cacoyannis's screenplay was "packed with incidents of varying moods, so packed, in fact, that some of the more important ones cannot be developed fully." Brendan Gill of The New Yorker wrote that Cacoyannis had directed the film with "enormous verve" but had written a "not very tidy, not very plausible screenplay." Gill particularly praised Kedrova's performance and thought that she "comes within an ace of stealing the picture from Quinn." The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that the film began well, but by the time the 
Title: Zorba's Dance
Content:  Zorba's Dance (Ο Χορός Του Ζορμπά) is an instrumental by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. The song featured for the dance, which has become known as sirtaki, in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, for which Theodorakis wrote the soundtrack and became renowned around the world. It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas. The film's track has since been recorded as a standalone song by many different musicians from around the world. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass recorded a 4:25 version of the song (as "Zorba the Greek") for their 1965 album Going Places. Issued as an edited single with live audience dubbed in, the song reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The tune 
Title: Zorba the Greek
Content:  Zorba the Greek (Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, Víos kai Politeía tou Aléxē Zorbá, Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas) is a novel written by the Cretan author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba. The novel was adapted into the successful 1964 film of the same name directed by Michael Cacoyannis as well as a stage musical and a BBC radio play.
Title: Zorba the Greek (film)
Content:  went to Crete "the pace slows to a crawl, and the narrative line becomes blurred in a series of unrelated incidents of doubtful significance." The review concluded that for all its length, "the film never gets down to a clear statement of its theme, or comes within measuring distance of its vast pretensions." The film won three Academy Awards. The film has an 86% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. On both sides of the Atlantic, Zorba was applauded and Quinn came in for the best reviews. He was lauded as Zorba, along with the other stars, including Greek-born Papas, who worked with Quinn on The Guns of Navarone. Also, the film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
Title: Zorba the Greek (film)
Content: 2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated Contemporary reviews were generally positive, with Anthony Quinn and Lila Kedrova receiving numerous accolades for their performances, although a few critics found fault with the screenplay. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times lauded Quinn for a "brilliant performance" and Kedrova for her "brilliantly realized" character, citing the only real weakness of the film as a lack of "significant conflict to prove its dominant character. Zorba is powerful and provocative, but nobody gets in his way." Margaret Harford of the Los Angeles Times declared that the film would "stand among the year's best motion pictures, an unusual, engrossing effort" with spots both "outrageously funny" and "painfully sad and tragic." Richard L. Coe of 
Title: Zorba the Greek (film)
Content:  The Academy Film Archive preserved Zorba the Greek in 2004.
Title: Zorba the Greek (film)
Content: Anthony Quinn as Alexis Zorba (Αλέξης Ζορμπάς), a fictionalized version of the mine worker George Zorbas (Γιώργης Ζορμπάς 1867–1942) ; Alan Bates as Basil ; Irene Papas as the Widow ; Lila Kedrova as Madame Hortense ; Sotiris Moustakas as Mimithos ; Anna Kyriakou as Soul ; Eleni Anousaki as Lola ; George Voyadjis as Pavlo ; Takis Emmanuel as Manolakas ; George Foundas as Mavrandoni ; Pia Lindström (deleted scenes) as Peasant girl 
Title: George Zorbas
Content:  as Zorba the Greek and also adapted into Zorba musical (1968) and an Academy Award-nominated film, Zorba the Greek (1964), wherein his role was played by Anthony Quinn. His life continued in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he settled in 1922 with his 10-year-old daughter, Katerina. Zorbas bought mines near Niš and near Skopje and began to deal in mining. In 1940, Katerina married a wealthy merchant, with whom she went to live in Belgrade. Zorbas himself died on September 16, 1941, and was buried in the cemetery of Vodno (quarter) near Skopje, then part of the Kingdom of Bulgaria). Because of the change of urban plans, the bones of Zorbas were transferred in 1954 to the Butel cemetery (P-17), near Skopje. His great-grandson was rock legend Pavlos Sidiropoulos.

Question: Who was the director of Zorba the Greek?
Answer: Michalis Cacoyannis.
Michales Kakoyannis.
Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης.
Michalis Kakogiannis.