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The film looks back to the effect of the 1940s Greek Civil War in Lia – the remote Greek village of Gage's upbringing in the northwestern Greek region of Epirus; and in particular, the murder of his mother by communist guerrillas of the Democratic Army of Greece (ΔΣΕ).
The film centers on the right-wing, military-dominated government of an unnamed Mediterranean state (based on Greece).The story begins with the closing moments of a rather dull government lecture on agricultural policy until the leader of the security police takes over the podium for an impassioned speech describing the government's program to combat leftism by using the metaphors "a mildew of ...
The polarization and instability of Greek politics in the mid-1960s was a direct result of the Civil War and the deep divide between the leftist and rightist sections of Greek society. A major crisis as a result was the murder of the left-wing politician Gregoris Lambrakis in 1963, the inspiration for the Costa Gavras political thriller Z .
The story takes place during Greek Civil War. Two brothers from Greek countryside find themselves to fight with the two opposite sides. Both of them serve as guides for the mountainous paths of Western Macedonia, an area with many battlefields. Gradually the two boys are fanaticized and become crueler by war conditions.
The film presents the riotous years immediately after the Greek Civil War. Vasiliki is the wife of a Greek communist guerrilla during Greek Civil War. The local gendarmerie arrests her because she brought food to her husband. The chief of gendarmerie charmed by her beauty, rapes her. Then, he moved in another city but returned to ask her to ...
This category concerns the events, people, etc, related to the Greek Civil War of 1946–1949. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Greece: The Hidden War is a 1986 television documentary series about the background to the Greek Civil War.The series, which explores the contribution of British policy and actions to the civil war, was highly controversial and was banned from being reshown in its existing form by the IBA.
O methystakas / Ο μεθύστακας (The Drunkard), George Tzavellas, 1950; Kyriakatiko xypnima / Κυριακάτικο Ξύπνημα (Windfall in Athens), Michael Cacoyannis, 1954