The Partisan

Song is Electrelane's cover of the "The Partisan" taken from their 2005 album Axes .
-----this could be described as an unnoficial video of the song ---- I'm happy though to say that Emma Gaze told me that it is fine by the band.
"The Partisan" gained popularity when Leonard Cohen released it in 1969 and Joan
Baez in 1972, but was wrote by Anna Marly as "La complainte du partisan" (known as
"The Partisan"). Hy Zaret lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1
955 hit "Unchained Melody", wrote lyrics for an English translation of this French
Resistance song aka "The Song of the French Partisan")

Footage is from the theatrical "Dead Travellers" directed by Yolanda Markopoulou.
"Dead Travellers" is a theatrical combination of two stories that had happened in
different places & eras written by influential Greek writer Alexandros Papadiamantis
(1851 - 1911) and the colombian novelist, writer and journalist Gabriel García Márquez
(1927 - present).
Actors that can be seen at the excerpt i used are: Maria Aiginitou, Violetta Yira & Haris
Haralampous. Scenography by Alexandra Siafkou.

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[Toracube]

True Punk never dies !!!!

[lemonostiftis]

@Toracube took me ages since i reply to you my friend. yo are just so right

[drplbiftin]

this song is so good

[lemonostiftis]

@drplbiftin can't but agree with you mate

[AnEnemy100]

Strictly speaking there was an anti-nazi resistance, not an entirely French resistance, the so called French resistance included many Spaniards and Poles as well as other nationalities, while many French "de souche" were happy to refer to the resistance as terrorists. Then right at the end of the war suddenly everyone claimed to have been in the resistance. "No Pasaran!" was the slogan for the real core of the resistance.

[lemonostiftis]

factis that the same happened everywhere. i guess it's in the human genes

[xan1967]

Fantástico !!!

[darnak2005]

Γαμω τις διασκευες ρε φιλε

[jeshualivesforever]

A great song and a great version of it!

[shoegazevolt]

¬w¬

[TheTollundWoman]

@AnEnemy100

very good point. There were certainly plenty of French collaborators, pathetic remnants of the Anti-Dreyfusards more than willing to betray their fellow countrymen to the fascists. But there were also many heroic Frenchmen who died fighting for liberty and humanity, and their memory deserves to be honored. Long live the anti-nazi resistance, and may fascism be defeated everywhere! Vive le France, Vive Liberte!