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Eleni (1985)
Vile right-wing propaganda
Whitewashing the victors of the Greek Civil War (Nazi collaborators, monarchists and all those traitors) is a direct insult to the Greek Resistance (primarily, but not only, Communists) who saved the Greek People from famine during occupation and shed their blood in the fight against the Germans and their local lackeys. While members of Nazi collaborating "security battalions" who were taking an oath to Hitler, not only went unpunished but were also reinstated and rearmed to fight against the Resistance the real heroes, the members of EAM-ELAS who bled to free the country were imprisoned, tortured and facing execution squads by the British-led monarcho- fascists. Really cheap propaganda. Total garbage, might as well have been financed by the CIA. Too bad I can't give 0 stars.
Psyhi vathia (2009)
Maintaining an equal distance is not the way...
While not bad an effort, by Greek cinema standards, I would expect a more deep approach from Voulgaris, who has a great legacy. Keeping an equal distance from both the Democratic Army of Greece (former EAM members who had shed their blood en masse fighting against the Nazis and their local collaborators) and the National Army (guided by British and American imperialists) is a distortion of history. Equating the victim with the perpetrator (the partisans had been persecuted, murdered and imprisoned by the thousands for two years before the start of the Civil War) is an insult to those people. At least, it is the only Greek movie, so far, that demonstrates some of the atrocities the Americans committed (napalm bombs etc) to support the monarchofascists.