Greek Civil War Films

Near the end of the Greek Civil War two brothers find themselves in opposite sides.

A young couple fight for their love and freedom.

The story of Nikos Belogiannis, member of the Greek Communist Party and officer of ELAS.

A communist woman and a soldier are ostracized for falling in love after the Greek civil war.

Greece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.

The film is a documentary and a fiction movie, outlines a true story: At the end of the Civil War, a group of eight persecuted fighters of the Democratic Army of Greece and exiled to Ikaria, "interprets" the announcement of the Communist Party "with the gun in hand", according to its own way, due to harsh conditions of the struggle of the island, as well as hunted by the local organs of the Gendarmerie. They keep hiding for six years to the mountains of Ikaria. The group is hiding in inaccessible mountain tops, in coastal caves, houses of villagers, aided by adults and children. They give and take a lesson of what means in practice communist solidarity, discipline, duty, sacrifice, what can you fight for and the canker of suspicion partner by partner, becomes the concern of almost all the residents. They group is the Legend of the island.

The action takes place in Greece after the 1967 military coup. Soldier Vangelis receives a leave of absence out of turn. But this day, received for participating in the execution of a communist, he does not know what to do with it. Fleeing a patrol after a street fight, Vangelis takes refuge with his girlfriend. Their meeting is full of bitterness, the confession of a punitive soldier is painful. In the morning, the hero will give himself the opportunity to be arrested, but he will not be submissive as he was yesterday.

Two fighters, cut up in the mountains, after the defeat of the Democratic Army in 1949, are trying to return to their homes.