1 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:14,430 THE TRAVELLING PLAYERS 2 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:17,838 A film by Theo Angelopoulos 3 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,717 The play you are about to see in five acts 4 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,349 is Spyridon Peresiades' immortal idyll 5 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,874 "Golfo the Shepherdess", 6 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,396 with a superb cast of famous actors, 7 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:37,959 both seasoned players and others who are young. 8 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:40,271 The love of Golfo, 9 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,316 tragic and profound, 10 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,109 deep in your heart will resound. 11 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,195 In the fall of l952 we returned to Aegion. 12 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,311 A few veterans, but mostly younger actors. 13 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,191 We were tired. 14 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,395 We hadn't slept for two days. 15 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,829 LONG LIVE MARSHAL PAPAGOS! 16 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,514 THE SAVIOUR OF THE NATION 17 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,431 If we don't want to see our streets 18 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,752 If we don't want another Red December... 19 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:03,994 We must all rally around the Marshal. 20 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:09,037 With your vote you can make this coming Sunday, 21 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:17,198 the l6th of November 1952, a historic day. 22 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:21,671 A day of victory for the national forces. 23 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:26,832 This is why you must vote for Papagos. 24 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:38,033 By voting for him you vote for the only national candidate. 25 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:43,835 For the man who led our army to victory... 26 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,789 against the communist rebels in l947-49. 27 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:55,071 A vote for the Marshal is a vote for peace, 28 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:59,472 prosperity, law and order. 29 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,633 Tomorrow afternoon... 30 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:55,919 The Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich, Goebbels, 31 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,991 accompanied by loanis Metaxas, our National Leader, 32 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,390 will pass through our town 33 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,790 on his way to ancient Olympia. 34 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,716 The National Youth Organization 35 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,598 invites everybody to welcome him, 36 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,673 suitably and respectably dressed for the occasion." 37 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:44,993 Ioannina 38 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:53,040 Lefkada, Xanthi... 39 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,116 Leave it, father. I'll do it. 40 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,191 Write down the dates too. 41 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,431 You will come back. 42 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:08,275 No matter how many years go by, you will come back, 43 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,512 full of remorse, to ask forgiveness. 44 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:19,668 One night in shame you will come back. 45 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:22,837 It won't come out! 46 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,113 Why is everyone happy and smiling, father? 47 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,232 Why don't you get your little bastard. 48 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,197 Dammit! 49 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,000 Why is the sun so bright today? 50 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,356 Because on a golden day like this, my child 51 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,512 the black tears stopped, 52 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:49,151 old wounds were healed. 53 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,430 The wheat grew tall. 54 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,830 And the stones turned into flowers and golden streams. 55 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,074 Left turn! Forward march! 56 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,316 Why? Didn't you like it? 57 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,349 You will come back. 58 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,039 No matter how many years go by, you will come back, 59 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,110 full of remorse, to ask forgiveness. 60 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,315 Broken-hearted, you will come back. 61 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:17,550 Why is everyone happy and smiling, father? 62 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,188 Why is the sun so bright today? 63 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,558 Why is the day so clear? 64 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:33,955 Because on a golden day like this, my child 65 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,717 the black tears stopped, 66 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,110 old wounds were healed. 67 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:42,952 The wheat grew tall 68 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:48,319 and the stones turned into flowers and golden streams. 69 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,356 You, this way. In room 15, the others in l7! 70 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,519 The day has come and in the dawn the morning star has set. 71 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,354 The peaks are drenched in sunlight and nightingales sing. 72 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,910 Partridges bathe in the streams 73 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,590 but the proudest partridge of them all, 74 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:57,309 the beautiful Golfo, has not appeared. 75 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,556 But here she comes! 76 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:03,798 Good day to you, Tassos. 77 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,920 Welcome beautiful partridge for whom my eyes languished. 78 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:08,717 Good day to you, Golfo. 79 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:10,872 They might be watching! 80 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,191 No one can see us save the birds of the forest. 81 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,599 And the birds? 82 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,195 Not like that... scared... the way your mother would say it. 83 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,072 No one can see us 84 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:31,549 save the birds of the forest and the surrounding peaks. 85 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:33,836 And the birds? 86 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:36,791 From the beginning, comrade. 87 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,312 - Good morning. - Good morning. 88 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:58,758 Hello, mother. 89 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,999 Don't look at me. I look awful in the morning. 90 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,151 I'm on a 48-hour pass. 91 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,955 We leave for the border in a couple of days. 92 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,916 At least you don't hate me like your sisters. 93 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,877 Still the same obsession! 94 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,871 I knew you'd come. 95 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,475 - Again? - I dreamt about it. 96 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,839 No, this was something different. 97 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,711 We were in a garden. It was summer. 98 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,554 You were three or four years old. 99 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:56,270 The air was fragrant. Someone was singing. 100 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:07,272 No, it was Mr. Kokinos playing the violin. Remember him? 101 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,754 Then, I don't know what happened. 102 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:20,991 You ran to me. Hid between my legs. 103 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,716 I held you tight 104 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,313 until you started to sink inside me 105 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,471 and disappeared. 106 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,794 I got up then. 107 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:45,079 Mr. Kokinos was still playing the violin. 108 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,877 But I could feel you inside me. 109 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,511 Good day to you, Tassos. 110 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,349 Welcome, beautiful partridge, for whom my eyes pined. 111 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,231 Good day to you, Golfo. 112 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,834 Orestes! Orestes! 113 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,511 Orestes! 114 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,832 How are you, father? 115 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:56,958 I am rotting! 116 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,672 The daisy told me that you don't love me. 117 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,992 That you no longer adore me. 118 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:18,790 You cannot melt away my sadness, 119 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:23,192 however sweet your caresses... 120 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,600 And then... 121 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,880 I saw another angel descend from Heaven... 122 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,440 having great power. 123 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,678 And the earth was illumined with his glory. 124 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,556 And he cried out in a mighty voice saying: 125 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,077 Babylon! Babylon the great has fallen! 126 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,353 When are you leaving? 127 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,952 Tomorrow morning... 128 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,710 for the border, from what they say. 129 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,073 Then we'll soon be at war here, too. 130 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,439 One night I crossed the river! 131 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,471 There can be no doubt for any Marxist, that a revolution 132 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,836 is impossible without revolutionary conditions. 133 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,629 What are the characteristics of revolutionary conditions? 134 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:07,438 When a crisis breaks out in the ruling classes 135 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:12,000 creating cracks in their policy through which the discontent 136 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,514 and indignation of the oppressed classes emerge. 137 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,670 When the misery and suffering 138 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,957 of the oppressed classes take a more acute form. 139 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,435 When as a consequence of the above mentioned conditions 140 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,080 there is a great increase in the activity of the masses 141 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,557 who in times of peace quietly allow themselves to be robbed 142 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,552 but in revolutionary times are forced by circumstances 143 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,155 and the crisis in the ruling classes 144 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,834 towards independent historical action. 145 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,920 We must explain to all governments: 146 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,710 We know you are the armed force against the proletariat. 147 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,071 We will march against you, 148 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,516 in peace, whenever possible, 149 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,636 with guns when i becomes unavoidable. 150 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,558 Feasts! Bread! Gallows! 151 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,392 Tell me, girls... 152 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,517 How are you doing? Where are you going? 153 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,590 Here comes Golfo and there's Tassos, too. 154 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,756 Come in and see them. 155 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,831 Outside don't wait, 156 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,717 the play is great! 157 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,076 Don't debate, it's already eight! 158 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,273 Tell me, you guys... 159 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,519 How are you doing? Where are you going? 160 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,755 Here comes Golfo and there's Tassos too. 161 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,076 Come in and see them. 162 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,711 The day has come and in the dawn the morning star has set. 163 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,872 The peaks are drenched in sunlight and nightingales sing. 164 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,555 Partridges bathe in the streams 165 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,200 but the proudest partridge of them all, 166 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,477 the beautiful Golfo, has not appeared. 167 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,156 But here she comes! 168 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:17,832 Good day to you, Tassos. 169 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,353 Welcome beautiful partridge, 170 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,192 for whom my eyes pined. 171 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:23,798 They might be watching! 172 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,950 No one can see us save the birds of the forest 173 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:26,756 and the surrounding peaks. 174 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,068 And the birds? 175 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,276 What is it? What's wrong, Golfo? 176 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,557 How can we be together when you run from the eagle's shadow. 177 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,120 I was terrified. 178 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,873 I thought it was the shadow of a man. 179 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,154 Don't be afraid. 180 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,869 Only God is here to see us 181 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,398 and surely it is His wish 182 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,477 that we love each other faithfully and honourably. 183 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:01,679 Look around you Golfo at the clouds around us 184 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:06,238 which like a mist, like a blanket thrown from heaven 185 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,356 shield us from malicious gossip 186 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:09,350 and indiscreet eyes. 187 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,477 You are my only thought, my only dream... 188 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,835 And truly I pray for you 189 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,276 and light a candle to the Virgin Mary. 190 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,310 You will come back. 191 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,472 No matter how many years go by, you will come back, 192 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,390 full of remorse, to ask forgiveness. 193 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:54,395 One night in shame you will come back. 194 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,228 When you realize you were mistaken, 195 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,233 broken-hearted you will come back. 196 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:42,793 In the meantime the Turks occupied Karahissar. 197 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,472 It was August 1922. 198 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:50,518 The front was breaking up. 199 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:56,190 Our soldiers arrived, threw down their arms. 200 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,712 The Greek Army no longer existed. Disaster had struck. 201 00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:06,630 I managed to board an Italian ship, 202 00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:10,759 swimming all the way from Aghia Triada. 203 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,676 Thank God there were the Italians. 204 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,115 They had designs on Asia Minor too 205 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:18,713 but they were more human, 206 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,040 Ioading their ships with refugees 207 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,190 and bringing them to Greek soil. 208 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:29,077 While the French, the Americans and especially the British 209 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,709 who helped cause the war as it served their own interests 210 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,234 showed the worst conduct. 211 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,189 I boarded that ship 212 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,909 with nothing on but my pants. 213 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,830 Finally, we arrived in Keratsini. 214 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,036 I was so hungry. 215 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,671 I longed for spaghetti cooked in oil. 216 00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:01,956 I kept saying to myself: 217 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,918 I wish I had something to eat! 218 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,636 I jumped into the sea. The others jumped too. 219 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,040 When I got ashore I saw an old shepherd. 220 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,110 He gave me an old shirt to wear. 221 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,751 I set out for Piraeus with a man from Chios. 222 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:35,957 We reached a country tavern where they were cooking beans. 223 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,710 There was a couple inside. 224 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,473 I asked for some water. 225 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,192 "Where are you from?" they asked. 226 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,112 "We are the first refugees from Asia Minor," I replied. 227 00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,874 "Sit down," said the couple. "Give them something to eat." 228 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:05,519 We ate a whole portion of beans. 229 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,873 They also treated us to some retsina wine. 230 00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:17,712 It turned out that they were royalists. 231 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:25,200 "Don't worry," they said, "one day we'll get our lands back." 232 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,351 And some nonsense about the last king of Byzantium. 233 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:38,952 I said: "I've eaten, I thank you, goodbye!" And we left. 234 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:40,308 I was furious. 235 00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,991 We spent the night in a church in Piraeus. 236 00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,469 All the refugees had gathered there. 237 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:54,869 I slept in a pushcart. 238 00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,273 In the morning I told my companion from Chios: 239 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,079 "We'll go find work." 240 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:09,919 "Where?" he said. 241 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,436 "Wherever we see a smoke stack, we'll go." 242 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,909 We finally saw one. 243 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:25,358 I was barefoot. 244 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:30,195 I asked the guard at the factory: 245 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:38,198 "Excuse me, we are refugees. Are there any jobs for us?" 246 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:42,870 "Come in," he said. 247 00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:53,434 They gave us 2 drachmas a day and a place to sleep. 248 00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:56,151 It was better than nothing! 249 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,076 In the meantime I wondered 250 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,508 what had happened to my family. 251 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,155 I saw an old neighbour. 252 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:09,878 How are you? 253 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,428 He was the brother of Vassilis, the actor. 254 00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:31,555 "Your oldest brother was lost," he told me. 255 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:39,471 "Your father, mother and the kid got off at Mytilene." 256 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:52,318 I searched heaven and earth to find them. 257 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,911 But I never did. 258 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,629 Black is the night on the mountains, 259 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:14,508 On the cliffs, the snow is falling. 260 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,989 In the wilderness, in the darkness... 261 00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:22,473 on the hills, on the rocks, on the paths... 262 00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:26,189 The Greek draws his sword! 263 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,557 At 5:30 this morning, 28th October, 1940. 264 00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:11,510 the Italian Armed Forces attacked our frontiers 265 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:16,390 along the Greek-Albanian border. 266 00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:21,153 Our forces are defending the land of our fathers! 267 00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:27,399 Our show tonight is dedicated... 268 00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,075 to this first army communique 269 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:32,879 and to victory. 270 00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,875 The day has come and in the dawn the morning star has set. 271 00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,157 The peaks are drenched in sunlight and nightingales sing. 272 00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:09,596 Partridges bathe in the streams 273 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,913 but the proudest of them all, 274 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,117 the beautiful Golfo, has not appeared. 275 00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,960 But here she comes. 276 00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:21,914 Good day to you, Tassos. 277 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,834 Welcome, beautiful partridge, for whom my eyes pined. 278 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,551 They might be watching. 279 00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,279 No one can see us save the birds of the forest 280 00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,040 and the surrounding peaks. 281 00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:35,519 And the birds? 282 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,909 What is it? What's wrong, Golfo? 283 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,356 How can we be together when you run from the eagle's shadow. 284 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:48,711 I was terrified. 285 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,678 I thought it was the shadow of a man. 286 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,990 Don't be afraid. 287 00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:59,550 Only God is here to see us and surely it is His wish 288 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:03,076 that we love each other faithfully and honourably. 289 00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:57,275 The daisy told me that you don't love me... 290 00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:01,035 that you no longer adore me. 291 00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:08,753 I did it! 292 00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,231 At first they didn't want to take me. 293 00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:24,958 I said: "Take me even as an auxiliary." 294 00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,637 In the end they took me. 295 01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:42,473 Undress. 296 01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:37,792 Are you coming? 297 01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:56,200 Come, my love, come today, 298 01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:59,078 where everything in life is fleeting. 299 01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,438 Come and place a kiss on my hair. 300 01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:17,590 If we don't want to see our streets 301 01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:21,675 smeared once again with the hammer and sickle. 302 01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:29,190 If we don't want another Red December... 303 01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:33,751 We must all rally around the Marshal. 304 01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:38,760 With your vote you'll make this coming Sunday, 305 01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:45,791 the l6th of November, 1952, a historic day. 306 01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:50,159 A day of victory for the national forces. 307 01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:54,753 This is why you must vote for Papagos. 308 01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:58,638 A vote for the Marshal 309 01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:04,154 is a vote for the only national candidate. 310 01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:09,676 For the man who led our army to victory... 311 01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:15,790 against the communist rebels in 1947-49. 312 01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:25,350 His victory will mean peace, prosperity, law and order. 313 01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:53,833 Is this where you said the Englishman was hiding? 314 01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:49,074 You! 315 01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:02,518 I was terrified. 316 01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:04,830 I thought it was the shadow of a man. 317 01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:19,991 You made me drunk, you made me mad. 318 01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:24,232 I lost my head. I don't know what to say. 319 01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:35,280 Oh, God! They'll kill each other! 320 01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:45,560 You can drop dead. Come what may he will be mine. 321 01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:50,350 And I'll scratch your eyes out, you and that witch. 322 01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:02,358 Take this bread and cheese, child. 323 01:13:02,440 --> 01:13:05,079 I'll go and tend my sheep. 324 01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:15,837 Are you still standing, you ingrate! 325 01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:20,789 Kneel and ask forgiveness from that angel! 326 01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:32,360 The play you are about to see in five acts 327 01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:35,033 is Spyridon Peresiades' immortal idyll 328 01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:39,955 "Golfo, the Shepherdess", with a superb cast... 329 01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:06,118 It looks like the Englishman managed to escape at night. 330 01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:11,998 We have information he was hiding on stage last night, 331 01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:13,832 disguised as a woman. 332 01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:20,440 His son is with the partisans. 333 01:14:20,440 --> 01:14:21,873 Informer! 334 01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:39,438 Bitch! 335 01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:07,519 I came from beyond the sea, from lonia. And you? 336 01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:29,318 Fire! 337 01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:19,188 I can feel your daughter watching us like a dog. 338 01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:22,832 Why don't you send her away? 339 01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:00,755 Anyone who doesn't like it can leave! 340 01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:51,916 I escaped from prison with six others. 341 01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:56,475 When the front collapsed, they handed us over to the Nazis. 342 01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:00,236 The resistance movement is growing, Electra... 343 01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:02,917 I got a message from Orestes. 344 01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:04,956 I'm leaving for the mountains to find him. 345 01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:41,916 How many ships have floundered 346 01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:46,596 in your eyes blue as the sea. 347 01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:50,748 Ships whose only purpose was to dock 348 01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:54,676 in love's harbour. 349 01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:59,952 In your mischievous blue eyes, my wildest dreams, 350 01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:04,352 my sweetest dreams were swallowed up, 351 01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:09,400 Iike ships in the darkness of the night, 352 01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:15,396 hurling against the rocks of your heart. 353 01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:21,476 Never before in my life 354 01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:25,589 have I ever seen such eyes, 355 01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:30,754 so blue, so large, so bright. 356 01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,831 Tell me, you girls... 357 01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:54,030 Where are we going? 358 01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:55,519 What are we eating? 359 01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:02,475 How I love the girls... 360 01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:07,832 a bit of thigh, a bit of breast... 361 01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:12,800 Don't debate. 362 01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:15,030 Tonight at eight 363 01:29:15,120 --> 01:29:19,591 come to the cafe.. with a wonderful play. 364 01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:21,830 Such lips and eyes. 365 01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:23,990 Such firm young bodies 366 01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:28,392 you'll never hope to find anywhere. 367 01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:02,870 Everyone outside! 368 01:39:51,800 --> 01:39:53,597 Me, comrade! 369 01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:39,036 It's the partisans! 370 01:41:02,320 --> 01:41:04,151 Turn off the lights! 371 01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:54,192 They're gone! They're gone! 372 01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:19,632 Now is the time to forge the public order... 373 01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:23,596 and our democratic liberties! 374 01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:31,639 Countrymen, let us unite 375 01:45:32,640 --> 01:45:37,760 with the national army and our allies 376 01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:43,512 for the liberation of Greece, 377 01:45:44,280 --> 01:45:46,350 under the leadership 378 01:45:46,440 --> 01:45:50,035 of a government of National Unity. 379 01:45:52,800 --> 01:45:56,110 GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY 380 01:46:12,880 --> 01:46:15,075 FREEDOM TO THE PEOPLE 381 01:46:25,960 --> 01:46:29,350 And now happy at last, 382 01:46:30,360 --> 01:46:35,798 free from fascism! 383 01:46:36,480 --> 01:46:42,999 We can all go home, brothers, together, all together, 384 01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:48,548 now that the occupation is over. 385 01:47:02,280 --> 01:47:10,198 Enslaved people, tortured people, 386 01:47:13,400 --> 01:47:21,034 the wind of freedom is blowing. Onward! 387 01:47:21,720 --> 01:47:27,317 And all together let us cry: Onward, brothers! 388 01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:35,556 THE WIND OF FREEDOM IS BLOWING. ONWARD! 389 01:47:36,160 --> 01:47:41,439 AND ALL TOGETHER LET US CRY: ONWARD, BROTHERS! 390 01:47:43,640 --> 01:47:46,871 Partisans, soldiers of the People's Army! 391 01:47:48,320 --> 01:47:53,474 Break the bonds of slavery! 392 01:47:54,680 --> 01:48:01,756 The bell of freedom is ringing! 393 01:48:03,080 --> 01:48:08,234 Let all the slaves rise up! 394 01:48:10,320 --> 01:48:15,713 THE BELL OF FREEDOM IS RINGING! 395 01:48:16,720 --> 01:48:21,794 LET ALL THE SLAVES RISE UP! 396 01:51:23,040 --> 01:51:27,511 Comrades, let's rise and take to the streets. 397 01:51:28,080 --> 01:51:32,392 Men and women, with guns in hand. 398 01:51:32,760 --> 01:51:36,878 Faithful always to the red flag. 399 01:51:36,960 --> 01:51:41,272 United with the party which summons you. 400 01:54:37,760 --> 01:54:42,356 Tear down the foundations of palaces and thrones... 401 01:54:42,840 --> 01:54:47,595 heavy chains, emblems and laws. 402 01:54:47,680 --> 01:54:52,276 Shame to the worker, shame to the slave 403 01:54:52,360 --> 01:54:56,911 who doesn't drown such a life in blood. 404 01:57:28,320 --> 01:57:35,396 Till when the foreign boot? Onward, revolutionaries! 405 01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:25,188 Halt! 406 02:00:20,600 --> 02:00:22,318 Tell me, oh Muse 407 02:00:23,280 --> 02:00:26,636 of the much troubled hero... 408 02:00:36,440 --> 02:00:39,716 No sign of Golfo as yet. 409 02:00:39,800 --> 02:00:41,472 Perhaps some misfortune has befallen her. 410 02:00:42,560 --> 02:00:44,551 Tassos, my son! 411 02:00:45,960 --> 02:00:49,236 Forgive us, father. 412 02:00:50,200 --> 02:00:52,589 Golfo poisoned herself 413 02:00:52,920 --> 02:00:56,196 and I stabbed myself. 414 02:00:56,960 --> 02:00:59,076 A single grave I beg you dig 415 02:00:59,160 --> 02:01:04,314 and bury us there together, in each others arms. 416 02:01:04,560 --> 02:01:07,552 My children! Tassos! Golfo! 417 02:01:10,960 --> 02:01:12,598 Dead! 418 02:01:19,080 --> 02:01:21,435 The world kept them apart. 419 02:01:21,520 --> 02:01:23,829 But here they lie united in the grave. 420 02:04:59,760 --> 02:05:02,797 Would you believe that she refused to be my wife? 421 02:05:03,040 --> 02:05:06,271 Me, the nephew of the richest of shepherds, 422 02:05:06,360 --> 02:05:09,557 grandson of the proudest family in the region? 423 02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:18,879 Golfo, know that Kitsos is deadly serious. 424 02:05:18,960 --> 02:05:21,190 If you love another 425 02:05:21,440 --> 02:05:23,954 your fate will be black and bitter. 426 02:05:24,040 --> 02:05:27,635 Dogs will devour you and vultures your lover! 427 02:15:02,920 --> 02:15:05,480 My Golfo never insulted anyone. 428 02:15:05,560 --> 02:15:08,836 What are you saying? You're telling me these lies? 429 02:15:09,240 --> 02:15:12,277 She insulted me to my face and you're defending her. 430 02:15:12,480 --> 02:15:15,160 I met her on the street, 431 02:15:15,160 --> 02:15:18,869 I said good day and she, drunk with rage, 432 02:15:18,960 --> 02:15:20,996 hurled insults at me. 433 02:15:21,440 --> 02:15:24,238 I couldn't catch her for she ran away. 434 02:15:24,320 --> 02:15:27,596 Or else I would have brought her back to you dead. 435 02:15:28,160 --> 02:15:32,073 Don't pay attention to what women say! 436 02:15:32,160 --> 02:15:36,551 They have the brain of a bird. 437 02:15:36,640 --> 02:15:38,870 Miserable creatures! 438 02:15:42,080 --> 02:15:44,116 Forget Kitsos. 439 02:15:44,200 --> 02:15:47,670 I, who am his uncle tell you plainly: 440 02:15:48,160 --> 02:15:50,310 I will never consent to Kitsos... 441 02:15:50,400 --> 02:15:53,198 marrying Tassos' mistress! 442 02:16:16,120 --> 02:16:20,272 You talk too much, shepherd. 443 02:16:21,280 --> 02:16:22,872 Wait and see! 444 02:16:22,960 --> 02:16:24,632 Take it easy, Master Zissis. 445 02:16:25,440 --> 02:16:26,793 Get lost! 446 02:16:26,880 --> 02:16:28,393 For God's sake! 447 02:16:29,720 --> 02:16:31,358 Leave me alone! 448 02:16:32,200 --> 02:16:33,713 My God, they'll kill each other! 449 02:16:58,000 --> 02:16:59,592 No! 450 02:23:52,280 --> 02:23:57,035 The daisy told me that you don't love me, 451 02:23:57,120 --> 02:24:01,272 that you no longer adore me. 452 02:24:01,360 --> 02:24:05,876 You cannot melt away my sadness, 453 02:24:05,960 --> 02:24:10,033 however sweet your caresses. 454 02:24:10,120 --> 02:24:14,280 In vain, you look into my eyes. 455 02:24:14,280 --> 02:24:19,115 I don't believe you any more, I tell you! 456 02:24:19,200 --> 02:24:23,716 The daisy told me that you don't love me 457 02:24:23,800 --> 02:24:28,112 and so I weep in despair. 458 02:28:24,440 --> 02:28:28,353 No! No! No! 459 02:28:51,000 --> 02:28:54,037 Who else was with him? 460 02:29:01,520 --> 02:29:03,238 Where is he now? 461 02:29:03,320 --> 02:29:05,038 In the mountains! 462 02:29:10,440 --> 02:29:12,351 Who else was with him? 463 02:29:12,440 --> 02:29:16,035 In the mountains! In the mountains! 464 02:29:19,480 --> 02:29:21,436 In the mountains! 465 02:30:58,880 --> 02:31:00,950 After the Germans left the country, 466 02:31:01,920 --> 02:31:05,390 in the fall of 1944, in October, 467 02:31:06,680 --> 02:31:10,832 the British, under General Scobie, entered Athens 468 02:31:10,920 --> 02:31:14,993 and the first government of National Unity was formed. 469 02:31:16,440 --> 02:31:19,591 There were demonstrations, enthusiasm. 470 02:31:21,440 --> 02:31:24,477 Because we all believed in the liberation, 471 02:31:26,160 --> 02:31:31,439 because we had all given of our best. 472 02:31:33,880 --> 02:31:37,350 We even believed in alliances and the allies. 473 02:31:39,880 --> 02:31:44,640 So after the disagreement and Scobie's ultimatum 474 02:31:44,640 --> 02:31:46,835 to have the People's Army disbanded, 475 02:31:48,280 --> 02:31:51,113 after the resignation of the communist ministers, 476 02:31:53,360 --> 02:31:56,670 and when we saw the Nazi collaborators, 477 02:31:56,760 --> 02:32:01,390 free and armed again by Scobie, 478 02:32:05,160 --> 02:32:07,390 we felt betrayed. 479 02:32:12,960 --> 02:32:15,633 They told us to take part in the demonstration, 480 02:32:16,720 --> 02:32:22,829 but in fact the people took to the streets spontaneously. 481 02:32:25,480 --> 02:32:27,789 But the British had planned it. 482 02:32:29,240 --> 02:32:31,913 They wanted an armed confrontation. 483 02:32:35,440 --> 02:32:37,431 But we didn't know it. 484 02:32:38,840 --> 02:32:41,195 The people took to the streets carrying flags, 485 02:32:41,280 --> 02:32:43,589 full of emotion, shouting. 486 02:32:48,440 --> 02:32:56,836 The blow on that Sunday in December, took us by surprise. 487 02:32:59,280 --> 02:33:01,919 Many had brought their children. 488 02:33:02,000 --> 02:33:03,911 No one expected it. 489 02:33:09,400 --> 02:33:12,631 The masses filled the squares. It was indescribable! 490 02:33:14,320 --> 02:33:18,154 They were on the roof of the King George Hotel, 491 02:33:18,240 --> 02:33:20,708 and on the pediments of the royal palace. 492 02:33:23,760 --> 02:33:26,354 We could see the barrels of their guns all around us. 493 02:33:27,440 --> 02:33:30,352 We were surrounded by police. 494 02:33:32,560 --> 02:33:34,516 The crowd was shouting. 495 02:33:36,440 --> 02:33:39,159 Suddenly we heard shots! 496 02:33:41,240 --> 02:33:43,515 I was in the middle of the square. 497 02:33:46,240 --> 02:33:50,518 Someone was hit near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 498 02:33:53,160 --> 02:33:58,837 The people dipped a flag in his blood 499 02:33:58,920 --> 02:34:04,870 and raised it high up and began shouting: 500 02:34:07,240 --> 02:34:11,233 FREEDOM! FREEDOM! NO MORE OCCUPATION! 501 02:34:13,120 --> 02:34:15,998 And they kept firing at us from the pediments. 502 02:34:19,800 --> 02:34:22,997 Suddenly, someone else was hit in the square. 503 02:34:24,080 --> 02:34:25,798 We fell to the ground. 504 02:34:27,400 --> 02:34:33,430 Near me a boy with a bugle. He was wounded 505 02:34:33,520 --> 02:34:37,752 but he got up and stood on the sidewalk shouting: 506 02:34:39,840 --> 02:34:46,678 "One more time, I want to cry out, to blow my bugle! 507 02:34:49,520 --> 02:34:55,117 He fell. They took him away. I don't remember. 508 02:35:01,080 --> 02:35:04,038 We regrouped and marched forward. 509 02:35:05,680 --> 02:35:09,116 At the corner further down there was a group of policemen. 510 02:35:09,640 --> 02:35:12,393 We surrounded and disarmed them. 511 02:35:14,520 --> 02:35:17,717 But the others kept firing at us from the roof. 512 02:35:21,200 --> 02:35:22,792 We kept marching. 513 02:35:24,360 --> 02:35:28,148 Britishers and Americans watched indifferently 514 02:35:28,240 --> 02:35:31,471 from the windows of the King George hotel. 515 02:35:38,160 --> 02:35:41,470 We reached Omonia Square. 516 02:35:44,600 --> 02:35:47,160 There they fired at us a second time. 517 02:35:54,280 --> 02:35:57,113 Some were taken to hospital. 518 02:35:57,880 --> 02:36:00,599 Those less badly wounded we took with us on stretchers 519 02:36:00,680 --> 02:36:03,990 made from doors we wrenched from nearby houses. 520 02:36:14,960 --> 02:36:23,231 The victims were buried the next day, December 4th. 521 02:36:26,680 --> 02:36:29,069 We took to the streets again. 522 02:36:31,280 --> 02:36:33,748 On the way back we were attacked again 523 02:36:34,600 --> 02:36:37,319 by the fascists and the militia in Omonia Square. 524 02:36:40,840 --> 02:36:41,875 The only thing I remember: 525 02:36:43,120 --> 02:36:47,398 The crowd down on their faces in the square and the barrels 526 02:36:49,160 --> 02:36:53,073 of the guns protruding from the hotel across the square. 527 02:36:57,520 --> 02:37:06,792 In two days there were 28 dead and more than 200 wounded. 528 02:37:13,520 --> 02:37:18,116 That same night the People's Army responded 529 02:37:18,200 --> 02:37:23,149 with attacks on police stations. Fighting began. 530 02:37:25,200 --> 02:37:27,395 Barricades. 531 02:37:32,120 --> 02:37:35,590 The battle of Athens lasted 33 days. 532 02:37:49,800 --> 02:37:52,553 "Representatives of the Greek government 533 02:37:53,120 --> 02:37:56,640 and of the Communist Liberation Front 534 02:37:56,640 --> 02:38:00,030 after holding a conference at Varkkiza 535 02:38:00,120 --> 02:38:03,590 in order to examine in common ways and means 536 02:38:03,680 --> 02:38:05,875 of ending the civil war 537 02:38:05,960 --> 02:38:08,315 and reconciling the Greek people, 538 02:38:08,400 --> 02:38:13,076 have reached the following joint agreement. 539 02:38:13,160 --> 02:38:15,515 Upon signing the Protocol 540 02:38:15,600 --> 02:38:19,354 the chairman of the Conference made the following statement: 541 02:38:19,440 --> 02:38:24,639 On behalf of the government and the Greek people 542 02:38:24,720 --> 02:38:27,029 I wish to express our gratitude 543 02:38:27,120 --> 02:38:29,315 to the representatives of the British empire 544 02:38:29,400 --> 02:38:33,234 and to General Scobie, chief of the Expeditionary Forces, 545 02:38:33,320 --> 02:38:36,596 who by their presence and sustained interest 546 02:38:36,680 --> 02:38:41,037 in Greek affairs, have given us 547 02:38:41,120 --> 02:38:44,280 the firm and unshakeable conviction that Great Britain 548 02:38:44,280 --> 02:38:49,593 is sincerely concerned with the future of Greece. 549 02:38:49,680 --> 02:38:52,035 Long live Great Britain! 550 02:38:55,400 --> 02:38:57,197 Article 1 551 02:38:57,720 --> 02:39:02,032 The government will ensure, according to the constitution 552 02:39:02,120 --> 02:39:05,396 and established democratic principles, 553 02:39:05,480 --> 02:39:07,198 the free expression 554 02:39:07,280 --> 02:39:11,239 of the political convictions of the citizens, 555 02:39:11,320 --> 02:39:15,233 abolishing of all pre-existing, repressive laws. 556 02:39:15,960 --> 02:39:17,996 Article 3 557 02:39:18,080 --> 02:39:21,356 General amnesty is granted to all political offences 558 02:39:21,440 --> 02:39:27,549 committed between December 3 1944 and the present signing. 559 02:39:28,160 --> 02:39:31,311 Members of the People's Army 560 02:39:31,400 --> 02:39:33,914 who fail to surrender their weapons to the authorities 561 02:39:34,000 --> 02:39:37,436 by March 15, 1945 562 02:39:37,520 --> 02:39:41,559 are excluded from this decree of amnesty. 563 02:39:41,760 --> 02:39:43,840 Article 6 564 02:39:43,840 --> 02:39:46,638 Upon publication of the present Agreement, 565 02:39:46,720 --> 02:39:49,314 armed resistance groups 566 02:39:49,400 --> 02:39:53,359 and particularly the forces of the People's Army, 567 02:39:53,440 --> 02:39:54,839 are disbanded. 568 02:39:54,920 --> 02:39:57,160 This procedure and the surrendering of their arms 569 02:39:57,160 --> 02:40:00,596 will be carried out according to the special provisions 570 02:40:00,680 --> 02:40:04,070 of the Protocol drafted by the Technical Committee. 571 02:40:04,160 --> 02:40:07,470 Article 9 Both delegations agree, 572 02:40:07,560 --> 02:40:11,189 to invite the great allied powers 573 02:40:11,280 --> 02:40:14,920 to send observers in order to ensure 574 02:40:14,920 --> 02:40:17,912 the expression of the genuine will of the people. 575 02:40:18,000 --> 02:40:22,551 Athens, February 12, 1945" 576 02:44:33,200 --> 02:44:35,350 THE INN AT GRAVIAS 577 02:44:35,440 --> 02:44:39,600 One of the most famous and heroic battles 578 02:44:39,600 --> 02:44:44,310 in Greek history, was the battle of Gravias. 579 02:44:44,400 --> 02:44:49,076 The Turks were on their way to attack Amfissa. 580 02:44:49,160 --> 02:44:53,551 Then Panourgias and others 581 02:44:53,640 --> 02:44:58,156 occupied the mountain passes near Gravias. 582 02:45:01,760 --> 02:45:06,480 Androutsos told his men to follow him to the Inn 583 02:45:06,480 --> 02:45:10,871 and asked who among them wanted to join him in the dance. 584 02:45:10,960 --> 02:45:15,317 One hundred and eighteen fighters followed him singing. 585 02:45:15,760 --> 02:45:22,199 Once they got to the Inn he shut all the doors and cried: 586 02:45:22,280 --> 02:45:28,719 Brave soldiers! Our country is asking us to do our duty! 587 02:46:09,280 --> 02:46:10,679 What do you want? 588 02:46:11,960 --> 02:46:13,518 Who are you? 589 02:47:28,840 --> 02:47:30,398 What do you want? 590 02:48:57,640 --> 02:49:00,791 People of Greece, 591 02:49:01,800 --> 02:49:05,873 by order of British Imperialism, 592 02:49:06,320 --> 02:49:09,312 on March 31st, 593 02:49:09,400 --> 02:49:13,473 the most disgraceful parody of elections will be staged. 594 02:49:13,720 --> 02:49:18,919 The people are being led to the polls, 595 02:49:19,000 --> 02:49:21,195 under the spectre of terrorism, 596 02:49:21,280 --> 02:49:26,000 in order to legalise a monarcho-fascist government 597 02:49:26,000 --> 02:49:30,596 and ensure the return of the King, 598 02:49:30,680 --> 02:49:33,478 guarantor of British interests 599 02:49:33,560 --> 02:49:36,199 and of foreign and domestic capitalism. 600 02:49:36,280 --> 02:49:41,912 The Varkiza Agreement was a farce. 601 02:49:42,000 --> 02:49:46,994 Greeks, the only democratic stand 602 02:49:47,080 --> 02:49:51,995 is to stay away from the polls! 603 02:49:52,080 --> 02:49:55,160 Say "No" to these rigged elections! 604 02:49:55,160 --> 02:49:58,038 Long live the People's Army! 605 02:51:14,800 --> 02:51:17,951 HAPPY 1946 606 02:51:58,760 --> 02:52:01,957 For years now we've been together 607 02:52:03,000 --> 02:52:06,515 and we are a well-matched pair, 608 02:52:07,240 --> 02:52:11,279 and to spite the wicked world 609 02:52:11,360 --> 02:52:15,353 I'll never stop loving you. 610 02:52:15,440 --> 02:52:19,718 I'll keep on loving you and don't you worry. 611 02:52:19,800 --> 02:52:23,679 And I'll build you a little nest. 612 02:52:24,160 --> 02:52:28,517 And when the dusk embraces you, 613 02:52:28,600 --> 02:52:32,878 we'll pair off like two birds. 614 02:53:19,240 --> 02:53:22,596 If they tell me to leave you 615 02:53:23,640 --> 02:53:27,030 I would rather the sun stop shining! 616 02:53:27,640 --> 02:53:31,680 I'm so used to you and I love you so! 617 02:53:31,680 --> 02:53:35,639 Let them talk and give me a kiss! 618 02:53:43,080 --> 02:53:46,390 The British cannons and the new decree 619 02:53:46,800 --> 02:53:50,509 have forced the rebels to run like hares. 620 02:53:50,880 --> 02:53:58,036 The red bear has fled to the mountains, oh King. 621 02:53:58,320 --> 02:54:05,112 British cannons don't scare us, or Scobie's new decree. 622 02:54:05,640 --> 02:54:09,349 We've written these letters in our blood. 623 02:54:09,440 --> 02:54:12,989 Freedom not Occupation! 624 02:54:21,160 --> 02:54:25,358 We want to and we'll do it. 625 02:54:25,440 --> 02:54:29,399 We'll bring back the King who'll bring us our freedom! 626 02:54:37,240 --> 02:54:40,118 Yupie ya ya, yupie yupie ya... 627 02:54:40,200 --> 02:54:43,397 We don't want the King. 628 02:54:43,480 --> 02:54:47,189 We want the people to rule, power to the people. 629 02:54:50,200 --> 02:54:53,272 Yupie ya ya, yupie yupie ya... 630 02:54:53,360 --> 02:54:56,360 The boys of the militia, 631 02:54:56,360 --> 02:54:59,989 hand in hand with the British and the fascists, 632 02:55:00,080 --> 02:55:02,913 will march on Moscow. 633 02:55:24,080 --> 02:55:28,278 General Scobie's cock is all tied up in knots. 634 02:55:28,360 --> 02:55:29,395 He goes to a chic square, 635 02:55:29,480 --> 02:55:31,080 to find young boys waiting there. 636 02:55:31,080 --> 02:55:33,116 General Scobie's cock is all tied up in knots. 637 02:55:33,200 --> 02:55:33,871 And if the knots come undone, 638 02:55:33,960 --> 02:55:37,032 what will happen to British policy then, Scobie? 639 02:55:55,640 --> 02:55:57,870 There'll be more knots, General Scobie. 640 02:55:57,960 --> 02:56:00,240 You might have gathered our weapons with a thousand tricks, 641 02:56:00,240 --> 02:56:02,549 but you'll never succeed in bringing back the King. 642 02:56:02,640 --> 02:56:04,471 The people won't stand for fascism. 643 02:56:04,560 --> 02:56:08,553 They will again raise their heads against British policy. 644 02:57:27,720 --> 02:57:33,192 Come back, come back to your ancient nest, our King! 645 02:57:33,280 --> 02:57:36,670 Your people are asking for you. 646 02:57:36,760 --> 02:57:39,593 Come back! 647 02:57:42,160 --> 02:57:44,151 And when you come 648 02:57:44,240 --> 02:57:47,710 you won't find any Reds here. 649 02:57:47,800 --> 02:57:50,872 The nation's guardians will protect you. 650 02:57:50,960 --> 02:57:53,872 Come back! 651 02:59:54,360 --> 02:59:57,079 Orestes hasn't turned in his weapons. 652 02:59:58,320 --> 03:00:00,709 His group is still up in the mountains. 653 03:00:02,400 --> 03:00:04,356 The war isn't over yet! 654 03:01:28,560 --> 03:01:38,390 We shall not shed a drop of Greek blood, 655 03:01:39,720 --> 03:01:44,999 only the traitorous blood 656 03:01:45,840 --> 03:01:50,675 of rebels and communists, 657 03:01:51,600 --> 03:01:55,513 so that Greece can be saved. 658 03:03:31,640 --> 03:03:36,236 You will have to choose between two camps. 659 03:03:36,320 --> 03:03:39,480 On the one side an assortment of suspicious persons 660 03:03:39,480 --> 03:03:41,914 and secret agents working for Moscow. 661 03:03:43,240 --> 03:03:47,950 On the other a movement led by an honest fighter, 662 03:03:48,440 --> 03:03:52,718 a heroic soldier, Marshal Papagos! 663 03:03:58,400 --> 03:04:03,110 When the communists violated the Varkiza agreement 664 03:04:03,200 --> 03:04:08,035 and tried to seize power for the second time, our country 665 03:04:08,560 --> 03:04:14,954 was in mortal danger. Two years of communist rebellion 666 03:04:19,440 --> 03:04:24,753 caused the death of thousands of people. 667 03:04:25,920 --> 03:04:29,515 It was then that we appealed to the Marshal. 668 03:04:30,240 --> 03:04:36,634 With the military and moral backing of the United States 669 03:04:37,640 --> 03:04:42,160 and the support of the king, he crushed the rebellion 670 03:04:42,160 --> 03:04:45,630 and saved Greece for the second time. 671 03:04:47,000 --> 03:04:51,232 Those communists who were not killed 672 03:04:51,320 --> 03:04:55,552 sought refuge behind the Iron Curtain. 673 03:04:56,880 --> 03:05:02,034 So peace was restored. The Marshal returned home, 674 03:05:03,000 --> 03:05:05,355 having done his duty. 675 03:05:06,320 --> 03:05:11,474 Today he is asking for your vote. 676 03:05:14,240 --> 03:05:20,634 Let the 16th of November 1952 be a day of victory 677 03:05:20,720 --> 03:05:27,114 for the national forces, a victory for the Marshal. 678 03:11:16,120 --> 03:11:17,678 Did you sign? 679 03:13:08,800 --> 03:13:11,394 I was caught towards the end of 1947. 680 03:13:12,680 --> 03:13:14,910 We were taken to Vourla, 681 03:13:16,880 --> 03:13:19,713 an old brothel turned into a prison. 682 03:13:22,680 --> 03:13:25,069 All the inmates were political prisoners. 683 03:13:27,320 --> 03:13:29,311 Then from Vourla to Lavrion 684 03:13:29,400 --> 03:13:31,960 and then to the island across, Makronissos. 685 03:13:33,440 --> 03:13:35,795 The military prison of Athens they called it. 686 03:13:43,040 --> 03:13:45,713 Besides the rebels, there were others... 687 03:13:46,640 --> 03:13:49,108 soldiers, cops, thieves... 688 03:13:49,200 --> 03:13:53,512 Jehovah's witnesses... They searched us. 689 03:13:55,160 --> 03:13:59,039 They took our watches, our pens... all we had. 690 03:14:03,000 --> 03:14:05,468 For some the torture began at once. 691 03:14:07,520 --> 03:14:09,431 The interrogations stopped when you signed 692 03:14:09,520 --> 03:14:11,351 a declaration against the Communist Party. 693 03:14:14,680 --> 03:14:17,433 I was to be tortured in the guardhouse upstairs. 694 03:14:17,960 --> 03:14:21,920 They told me: Listen, you won't make it out of this place 695 03:14:21,920 --> 03:14:23,672 unless you sign the declaration. 696 03:14:24,960 --> 03:14:27,155 I refuse to sign, I said, 697 03:14:27,240 --> 03:14:29,390 even if you cut me to pieces. 698 03:14:32,880 --> 03:14:35,678 Two or three hours later they took me down unharmed. 699 03:14:36,760 --> 03:14:39,194 We didn't beat you, but act like you're limping 700 03:14:39,920 --> 03:14:42,309 so it will look as if we did. 701 03:14:50,520 --> 03:14:53,637 About 8 o'clock they took me to the police station. 702 03:14:56,200 --> 03:14:58,919 The sergeant turned me upside down, like a goat 703 03:15:00,600 --> 03:15:02,716 and beat the daylights out of me. 704 03:15:09,320 --> 03:15:14,269 When he got tired the others started beating and kicking. 705 03:15:17,960 --> 03:15:20,030 I fainted twice. 706 03:15:25,240 --> 03:15:27,515 Then they took us outside. 707 03:15:28,400 --> 03:15:30,277 It was winter, February... 708 03:15:30,360 --> 03:15:32,191 There were other prisoners. 709 03:15:33,720 --> 03:15:37,110 They made us stand ten metres apart from each other. 710 03:15:38,560 --> 03:15:40,596 Someone was standing guard. 711 03:15:46,400 --> 03:15:48,595 In the morning they beat us again. 712 03:15:50,280 --> 03:15:54,114 Then we were taken to carry large rocks from the sea. 713 03:15:57,960 --> 03:16:00,599 We would take them up the hill and down again 714 03:16:00,680 --> 03:16:02,511 for no reason. 715 03:16:04,880 --> 03:16:09,112 One of the tortured prisoners suffered from tuberculosis. 716 03:16:10,200 --> 03:16:14,910 He went up the hill but his chest couldn't make it. 717 03:16:17,000 --> 03:16:19,639 When he reached the top he started spitting blood. 718 03:16:20,320 --> 03:16:22,231 They took him to the hospital. 719 03:16:29,240 --> 03:16:32,755 They would beat us from 5 to 7 or 8 each evening. 720 03:16:34,600 --> 03:16:37,831 And at night they would keep us spread apart from eath other 721 03:16:39,040 --> 03:16:41,838 so that we couldn't communicate when they went to sleep. 722 03:16:44,520 --> 03:16:47,432 Our feet were so swollen they burst our shoes. 723 03:16:50,040 --> 03:16:54,397 I couldn't walk from the beating. 724 03:16:57,080 --> 03:16:59,600 A guard with a club in his hand would yell at me: 725 03:16:59,600 --> 03:17:04,116 Run, run! How could I run when I was dragging myself along. 726 03:17:06,440 --> 03:17:08,795 They tortured me for two weeks. 727 03:17:12,720 --> 03:17:15,154 As each blow fell and I groaned 728 03:17:15,240 --> 03:17:17,629 the others held their breath. 729 03:17:26,200 --> 03:17:30,193 Little by little the others broke down one by one. 730 03:17:30,280 --> 03:17:34,239 There were only 5 or 6 of us left who would not sign. 731 03:17:37,480 --> 03:17:39,755 The put the pressure on us. 732 03:17:44,640 --> 03:17:47,393 One evening in the twilight I saw them coming. 733 03:17:48,400 --> 03:17:51,392 Camp guards and torturers from the other units, 734 03:17:51,480 --> 03:17:53,391 Iike beasts of prey. 735 03:17:54,320 --> 03:17:57,471 We were outside on the wet ground. 736 03:17:59,760 --> 03:18:01,557 They surrounded us. 737 03:18:02,680 --> 03:18:07,310 This time, I thought, they'll finish us off for good. 738 03:18:09,080 --> 03:18:10,672 I turned to the guy next to me. 739 03:18:12,000 --> 03:18:13,752 Things don't look good tonight, Vassilis. 740 03:18:23,040 --> 03:18:24,837 I couldn't last any longer. 741 03:18:25,640 --> 03:18:27,995 I dragged myself up and told them I would sign. 742 03:18:29,880 --> 03:18:36,877 The sergeant, delighted, asked me if I wanted a drink. 743 03:18:39,520 --> 03:18:41,511 I told them I didn't want anything. 744 03:18:45,640 --> 03:18:48,154 They took me to a tent and left me. 745 03:18:55,840 --> 03:18:58,752 Two hours later they brought Vassilis in. 746 03:18:59,920 --> 03:19:01,990 Not dead but crushed. 747 03:19:07,880 --> 03:19:10,075 He hadn't signed! 748 03:22:11,680 --> 03:22:17,755 My little lemon tree, 749 03:22:19,040 --> 03:22:22,112 full of lemons, 750 03:22:22,200 --> 03:22:25,192 woman of Vissani, 751 03:22:25,280 --> 03:22:32,834 I still have not recovered from your kiss. 752 03:22:42,000 --> 03:22:45,754 My little one, 753 03:22:45,840 --> 03:22:49,515 how you've grown 754 03:22:49,600 --> 03:22:55,436 and here you are ripe for marriage, woman of Vissani. 755 03:26:20,320 --> 03:26:22,038 Come in! 756 03:26:40,200 --> 03:26:43,158 One night he crossed the river! 757 03:26:44,920 --> 03:26:46,876 The last time I heard you say that 758 03:26:46,960 --> 03:26:51,238 was in the summer of '47, in the resistance. 759 03:26:52,320 --> 03:26:56,199 Three years ago. How are you? 760 03:26:58,080 --> 03:26:59,957 We heard you got out. 761 03:27:01,320 --> 03:27:04,995 Orestes is in solitary. They wouldn't let me see him. 762 03:27:07,280 --> 03:27:09,032 Are you better now? 763 03:27:15,360 --> 03:27:18,272 We thought of getting the company together again, 764 03:27:18,360 --> 03:27:20,351 going back on the road. 765 03:27:21,800 --> 03:27:25,509 We'd like you with us again, like before. 766 03:27:36,600 --> 03:27:38,989 I'll go over the obstacles. 767 03:27:42,080 --> 03:27:46,995 The intervention of events, sounds, realignments, 768 03:27:47,080 --> 03:27:51,995 the intervention of navies from the raging open sea, 769 03:27:53,400 --> 03:27:58,838 the popular speakers, my breast, the cries... 770 03:27:59,920 --> 03:28:01,911 the factories... 771 03:28:02,560 --> 03:28:05,438 October 1917... 772 03:28:11,160 --> 03:28:13,833 December 1944... 773 03:28:19,440 --> 03:28:21,908 For all this I have chosen to remain in rags 774 03:28:23,760 --> 03:28:26,513 as the French Revolution bore me, 775 03:28:29,080 --> 03:28:32,231 as Mother spain bore me, 776 03:28:36,600 --> 03:28:39,558 a dark conspirator! 777 03:28:57,040 --> 03:29:01,750 When sometimes I hear with my own ears 778 03:29:01,840 --> 03:29:06,516 strange noises and distant whispers, 779 03:29:08,440 --> 03:29:11,193 when I hear trumpets and songs, 780 03:29:11,880 --> 03:29:16,510 endless speeches, hymns and noises, 781 03:29:18,960 --> 03:29:22,873 when I hear speak of liberty, 782 03:29:22,960 --> 03:29:26,396 of Biblical laws, 783 03:29:28,280 --> 03:29:30,555 of an ordered life, 784 03:29:32,320 --> 03:29:34,550 I always fall silent. 785 03:29:41,480 --> 03:29:43,198 But someday, 786 03:29:44,000 --> 03:29:46,673 someday, I'll open my mouth. 787 03:29:47,600 --> 03:29:50,194 The gardens will fill with waterfalls... 788 03:29:50,920 --> 03:29:54,071 The same dirtyards will become arsenals. 789 03:29:54,920 --> 03:29:57,560 The young, elated, will follow 790 03:29:57,560 --> 03:30:00,120 reciting verses, not hymns, 791 03:30:00,840 --> 03:30:03,877 and never submitting to the terrifying power. 792 03:30:20,040 --> 03:30:23,271 Once again they promise a weak freedom! 793 03:32:41,480 --> 03:32:43,232 Come in! 794 03:33:05,880 --> 03:33:07,916 Are you his sister? 795 03:33:08,760 --> 03:33:11,274 We didn't have time to notify you. 796 03:33:11,800 --> 03:33:15,475 As you know he was condemned by a military court. 797 03:33:16,160 --> 03:33:22,156 His sentence has been pending since November 1949. 798 03:33:26,040 --> 03:33:27,758 I'm very sorry. 799 03:34:58,200 --> 03:35:01,909 Good day to you, Tassos. 800 03:37:27,960 --> 03:37:34,479 Let your lovely hair fly 801 03:37:34,880 --> 03:37:40,955 in the mad south wind. 802 03:37:41,800 --> 03:37:48,478 Now that your youth has blossomed, 803 03:37:48,560 --> 03:37:55,591 Iet your lovely hair down. 804 03:38:41,560 --> 03:38:44,313 I was looking for you. Aren't you dressed yet? 805 03:38:45,960 --> 03:38:48,952 - Are you nervous? - No. 806 03:39:30,040 --> 03:39:31,951 Orestes! 807 03:41:24,800 --> 03:41:28,634 In the fall of 1939 we returned to Aegion. 808 03:41:30,240 --> 03:41:32,117 We were tired. 809 03:41:33,840 --> 03:41:36,308 We hadn't slept for two days.