Melina Mercouri was an actor and, later, culture minister of Greece. Never on Sunday is the film people still name, and the campaign for the Parthenon marbles is the public cause of the later years. She died in 1994. Stage, film, and office are the chapters.
Gând
A sample thought. The family would write here what they still say at the table.
Elena
Gând
A sample thought. A friend would say how the ordinary days were the ones that stayed.
Thomas
Poveste
What I was told
This is a sample story. A grandchild would write what they were told, and the one afternoon they remember for themselves.
Sofia
Fotografie
Jack de Nijs for Anefo · CC0
Fotografie
Hans Steinmeier / Anefo · CC0
Fotografie
Hans Steinmeier / Anefo · CC0
Lumânare
A sample candle that stays lit.
Mark
Lumânare
A sample light for the name we still say.
Mira
Videoclipuri
The song from the old radio
A sample film for Melina Mercouri. The family would put here a song or a piece of footage they still play.
Muzică
The piece from the kitchen
The family
Dar
Lumânare
A sample gift of light.
Helen
Dar
Carte
A sample card for Melina Mercouri.
Mark
Dar
Floare
A sample flower, left on the page.
Iris
Cronologie
Born
Melina Mercouri was born in 1920.
Cronologie
Never on Sunday
Never on Sunday was released. She played the leading part.
Cronologie
Minister of culture
She became Greece’s minister of culture, an office she used for the Parthenon marbles and for the arts.
Cronologie
Died
She died in New York in 1994 and was buried in Athens.
Întâlnire
A Sunday visit
A sample gathering for Melina Mercouri. The family would write the time, the place, and who is welcome.
The family
1920
1960
1981
1994