"Melancolie" (English: "

Melancholia Melancholia or melancholy (from ',Burton, Bk. I, p. 147 meaning black bile) is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood, bodily complain ...

") is a Moldovan

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

song written in

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ...

by Petre Teodorovici (music) and

Grigore Vieru Grigore Vieru (; 14 February 1935 – 18 January 2009) was a Moldovans, Moldovan poet, writer and unification of Moldova and Romania, unionist advocate, known for his poems and books for children. His poetry is characterized by vivid natural sce ...

(lyrics). The well known song was performed by various singers such as

Sofia Rotaru Sofiia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru ( ; ; ; born 7 August 1947), known simply as Sofia Rotaru, is a Ukrainian pop singer of Romanian origin. Rotaru, nicknamed "Bukovinsky Solovey" ("the Nightingale from Bukovina"), emerged in 1966 as a po ...

, Angela Similea, Ion Suruceanu, and others. Both Rotaru and Suruceanu appeared in the

Soviet film The cinema of the Soviet Union includes films produced by the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, albeit they were all regulated by the central government in Moscow. ...

Dnestrovskiye melodiy ''Dnestrovskiye melodii'' (; ) is a 1973 Soviet Union, Soviet Moldavian SSR, Moldavian musical film starring Sofia Rotaru in the main role, as well as Ion Suruceanu, Nadezhda Chepraga and Maria Cudreanu. The movie symbolizes the propaganda and ide ...

'' of the

1970s File:1970s decade montage.jpg, Clockwise from top left: U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office following the Watergate scandal in 1974; The United States was still involved in the Vietnam War ...

Lyrics

References

External links

Melancolie at Sofia Rotaru website

Lyrics
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