'' Madalena '' ( ) is a 1960 Greek comedy film directed by Dinos Dimopoulos . It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival . The film won three awards in the 1st Thessaloniki Film Festival A girl lives in a small Greek island of Aegean . Along with her multimember family lives from the job of her father who has a little boat that carries passengers to the opposite island . When her father dies , she has to take over her family and take care of her brothers and sisters . But the small society of the island does n't see positively a woman which works . Despite the obstacles she does n't give up . Frustrated from the difficulties , she decides to get married a rich farmer of the island . But the love of her main competitor overturns the situation
1961 Cannes Film Festival
1961 Cannes Film Festival
Madalena (film)