Desc: L'anniversaire: Directed by Pierre Jourdan. With Melina Mercouri, Andreas Papandreou, Vassiliki Lavina, Dimitra Galani. A portrait of Melina Mercouri, recalling her life and years of exile away from Greece between 1967 and 1974, until the election of socialist PM Andreas Papandreou on October 18, 1981, date of her birthday, when she became Minister of Culture.