HERITAGE AND MEMORY: A FOCUS ON JEWISH GREECE THROUGH CINEMA

THE QUEEN OF REBETIKO: MY SWEET CANARY

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Three young musicians––an Israeli, a Turk and a British–born Greek Cypriot––embark on a mission to tell the story and explore the music of legendary Greek singer Roza Eskenazy. A Sephardic Jew born in Constantinople and raised in Thessaloniki, Eskenazi became the most recorded singer of rebetika, a genre described as Greek blues, in a career that spanned from the 1920s into the 1970s. Many of her songs, originally sung in Greek, Turkish, Armenian and Ladino, are reprised in this rousingly exuberant documentary that delves into why the singer’s music remains relevant today. 

  • Year
    2011
  • Runtime
    90 minutes
  • Language
    English, Modern Greek (1453-), Hebrew with English subtitles
  • Country
    Greece, Israel
  • Director
    Roy Sher
  • Producer
    Roy Sher
  • Cast
    Haris Alexiou, Mehtap Demir, Roza Eskenazy