Melina Mercouri in... Never on Sunday 1960 🎥 Mercouri won the award for Best Actress at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. Never on Sunday (Greek: Ποτέ την Κυριακή, Poté tin Kyriakí) is a 1960 Greek black-and-white, romantic comedy film. The film tells the story of Ilya, a self-employed, free-spirited prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist and classical scholar who is enamored of all things Greek. Homer feels Ilya's life style typifies the degradation