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6.6/10 • 7

1965-01-091h 14m

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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).

Directors
Adonis Kyrou
Writters
Gerasimos Stavrou, Adonis Kyrou

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  1. Kostas Kazakos

    Kostas Kazakos

    Kosmas

  2. Xenia Kalogeropoulou

    Xenia Kalogeropoulou

    Antigoni

  3. Alexandra Ladikou

    Alexandra Ladikou

    Myrto

  4. Giannis Fertis

    Giannis Fertis

  5. Manos Katrakis

    Manos Katrakis

  6. Kostas Bakas

    Kostas Bakas

  7. Koula Agagiotou

    Koula Agagiotou

  8. Giannis Kondoulis

    Giannis Kondoulis

  9. Eirini Koumarianou

    Eirini Koumarianou

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