Pantelis Voulgaris's latest film tackles the still-divisive topic of 's 1946-49 Civil War, when the "National" army of Greece's Western-backed government fought an insurgent "Democratic" army of Greek leftists and communists. The struggle was one of the first armed conflicts of the new Cold War. Voulgaris dramatizes these internecine events through the tale of two young brothers — 14-year-old Vlassis and 17-year-old Anestis — who find themselves enlisted in opposing camps after their father is killed and they are separated from their mother. Voulgaris has stated that his intention was "to finally reconcile the bloodiest pages of our modern history."His beautifully-shot film is set in the Grammos Mountains of western Macedonia, site of some of the war's worst violence, in 1949 — what Voulgaris calls "the last act of our nation's drama." The humanism for which the director is renowned is very much in evidence; because Voulgaris has also always been an artist of leftist sympathies, some attention has been paid to the question of whether he reveals any bias — or if, perhaps, he has attempted to be too even-handed — in his treatment of this very contentious subject.
@sparti8 Sorry for your loss your uncle sounds like he was a brave man and yes the men and women that fought for freedom in Greece were heroes.
MyGamingAddiction 9 months ago
MyGamingAddiction here is to your grandfather my uncle fought with them and died for his country, shot to death unarmed all of seventeen years old, it traumatized my poor grandmother the rest of her life . Long live there their memory they were heroes
sparti8 10 months ago
wow this looks like a great movie my grandfather fought with the dse fighters in the civil war for greece thank you very much for posting this.
MyGamingAddiction 1 year ago