Love Story in Greek

[cosmasad]

This one should be an easy one but what would be the best phrase for a "love story" in Greek as in films? For example, the famous movie from the early 70's called "Love Story" how would one translate it in to Greek?

Thank you.

 

[SBE]

The film was Ιστορία Αγάπης and you can hear that phrase used in general.
Αλλα λέμε:
αισθηματική ιστορία
ερωτική ιστορία
ρομάντζο
(το) λαβ-στόρι (ειρωνικά ή χιουμοριστικά)

The 1973 film that is known in English as Love and Anarchy is Ιστορία Έρωτα και Αναρχίας.

 

[SBE]

And παράφορος έρωτας is what English speakers (especially journalists) describe as amour fou.

 

[cosmasad]

Makes sense, SBE, but then if you are going to use "ερωτική ιστορία" how does one distinguish - if I may - between a love story and an x-rated film?

 

[SBE]

You would not describe an adult film as ερωτική ιστορία.
I don't have access to a detailed modern Greek dictionary, but I'm guessing that just as in English story is not only a narrative but also a situation, a combination of circumstances. Therefore and ερωτική ιστορία is what happened to Romeo and Juliet.
I know that English language learners of Greek, confuse the usage of ερωτικός.
ερωτική εξομολόγηση = a declaration of love
ερωτική περιπέτεια = love affair
ερωτικός δεσμός = love affair, relationship (ο Α διατηρούσε ερωτικό δεσμό με τον Β= A and B were in a relationship)
ερωτική σχέση= see δεσμός
ερωτική απογοήτευση= heartbreak
ερωτικό μυθιστόρημα= anything from to Wuthering Heights to Justine (not the Durrell novel). The context is important here I think.
And going back to films, I have always used ερωτική ταινία and αισθηματική ταινία interchangeably, and when I lived in Greece in polite company you would refer to adult films as αισθησιακές ταινίες, αισθησιακός κινηματογράφος. But more recently I have seen ερωτικός used as a translation of erotic, as in ερωτικό θρίλερ etc. Personally I get confused. For example. I was reading the TV schedule and there was a film described as ερωτικό δράμα and I said "μα αυτό δεν είναι ερωτικό δράμα, είναι τσόντα" and I was told that, no, that's what they are called. OK, whatever. But if it said αισθησιακή ταινία there would be no ambiguity.

And that's what a non expert has to say.

 

[pontios]

Δηλαδή η ιστορία αγάπης, εξομολόγηση αγάπης, περιπέτεια αγάπης (κτλ.) πάνε περίπατο;

 

[cougr]

From #5 "μα αυτό δεν είναι ερωτικό δράμα, είναι τσόντα"

Παίζουν τσόντες και τα ελεύθερα κανάλια;

@pontios SBE has addressed those in her posts above.

 

[pontios]

ΟΚ (thanks, cougr)
... το "Αλλα λέμε" (με το "Α" του "Αλλα" χωρίς τόνο - SBE's #2) - I thought was saying: "but we usually say." (=αλλά λέμε)

 

[SBE]

Παίζουν τσόντες και τα ελεύθερα κανάλια;

Εξαρτάται από το πώς ορίζεις την τσόντα.

 

[cougr]

Α, κατάλαβα. Ευχ!

 

[SBE]

Δηλαδή η ιστορία αγάπης, εξομολόγηση αγάπης, περιπέτεια αγάπης (κτλ.) πάνε περίπατο;

Δεν εχω ακούσει ποτέ για εξομολόγηση αγάπης και περιπέτεια αγαπης. Ερωτική εξομολόγιση και ερωτική περιπέτεια λέγονται.
Και εδώ το ερωτική δεν σημαίνει erotic.