This scene depicts the final lumberjack experiment from the movie Zorba The Greek, based on a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. Please expand the description for more details.
ZORBA THE GREEK
Zorba the Greek is a novel written by the Greek 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 a successful 1964 film of the same name as well as a 1968 musical, Zorba.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_the_Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis
http://grecja.home.pl/eng/ekazantzakis.htm
http://www.historical-museum.gr/kazantzakis/index1.html
The meaning of the words, art, love, beauty, purity, passion, all this was made clear to me by the simplest of human words uttered by this workman.
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