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6.6

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Drama
War

1965-01-09

74 mins

The Plot

One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work in Greece before the advent of the 1967 dictatorship forced him to flee to Paris. This confused mess, the first cinematic attempt at portraying the Greek resistance in WWII, caused quite a stink upon release, as much for its surprising style (recalling that of Bertolt Brecht) as for its subject matter. Reaction to its screening as part of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival's International Critic's Week was heated and divisive, proving Kyrou's later statement by rising above its own inherent silliness to achieve a sort of rarefied critical status. It's bad drama that nonetheless succeeds by dint of audacity more than quality (a comment which could apply equally to the work of many exploitation directors like Jean Rollin whom Kyrou later so lovingly profiled).

Cast and Crew

Kostas Kazakos

Kostas Kazakos

Kosmas

Xenia Kalogeropoulou

Xenia Kalogeropoulou

Antigoni

Alexandra Ladikou

Alexandra Ladikou

Myrto

Giannis Fertis

Giannis Fertis

Manos Katrakis

Manos Katrakis

Kostas Bakas

Kostas Bakas

Koula Agagiotou

Koula Agagiotou

Giannis Kondoulis

Giannis Kondoulis

Eirini Koumarianou

Eirini Koumarianou

Giorgos Nezos

Giorgos Nezos

Hristos Bekiaris

Hristos Bekiaris

Kostas Diplaros

Kostas Diplaros

Theodoros Dovas

Theodoros Dovas

Maria Giourousi

Maria Giourousi

Christoforos Himaras

Christoforos Himaras

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