Civil war in Greece
Civil war in Greece 1946-49 between Democratic Army of Greece and Greek government army, supported by UK and USA.
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- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsVangelis MourikisGiorgos SymeonidisVictoria HaralabidouNear the end of the Greek Civil War two brothers find themselves in opposite sides.
- DirectorKostas KoutsomytisStarsSocrates AlafouzosDimitris KarambetsisVladimiros KyriakidisA commercial flight from Athens to Thessaloniki was hijacked by six young communists who asked the pilots to fly to Yugoslavia.
- DirectorTakis SimonetatosStarsLakis KomninosNikos GalanosGeorgia ZoiCaptain Angelos and the soldier Memos participate in a group of experienced ELAS's guerrillas. The team assumes the dangerous mission to reach the center of Athens, under the control of the English and the Greek regular army, and blow up the headquarters of the British headquarters located in the hotel of "Great Britain". When after a fight they manage to reach and place the explosives, the order is revoked. Their headquarters were afraid of the consequences of the possible death of British Prime Minister Wilson Churchill, who suddenly arrived in Athens and so the whole business was canceled.
- DirectorAngelos MalliarisStarsTakis HrysikakosHaritini KarolouVangelis KazanThessalonica, Greece, 1948. The years of the Greek civil war. American journalist George Polk is planning to meet the military leader of the communists Markos Vafiades for an exclusive interview. Polk announces this to his colleagues, but on May the 8th he is found murdered. The Greek police starts investigating the case. But the orders of the minister in charge are clear. This political murder must be pinned to the communists no matter what. Based on actual events.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsVangelis KazanEva KotamanidouGiorgos DanisOn New Year's Eve, a group of hunters finds the frozen body of a dead WWII partisan fighter. They spend the night debating what to do with it.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsZorz SarriGiorgos MoshidisStavros KalaroglouThe film depicts the penal experience of political prisoners exiled to a small Aegean island during the military junta and in particular one prisoner's refusal to submit.
- DirectorNikos TzimasStarsAlekos AlexandrakisAngelos AntonopoulosKostas KazakosThe story of Nikos Belogiannis, member of the Greek Communist Party and officer of ELAS.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsTitos VandisPetros FyssounAnestis VlahosSome months before the outbreak of the Greek Civil War three outlaws struggle for survival in the mountains.
- DirectorErrikos AndreouStarsHristos PolitisVera KrouskaHristos NegasTwo friends doing their part during the German Occupation of Greece find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the Greek Civil War years later. With brother against brother, what will it take to end the war and shake hands?
- DirectorDionysis GrigoratosStarsMaria EgreOlympia GelodariOlympia GelodariThe odyssey of five children, among the 60,000 who were taken away from their homes during the Greek civil war and led to institutions inside and outside of Greece. Today, the granddaughter of one of the children reconstructs that odyssey with the help of two bloggers who, as it is revealed, have central role in the case. Central role, that claims for herself as she experiences the children's drama (some of them are the real persons) and 'identifies' herself with her grandmother. 'A fiction film-composition of 'dramatized' archive material and reenactment (with actors and people who have experienced the events) about a repressed chapter of the Cold War brought to the fore by today's events'.
- DirectorChristos SiopahasStarsChristos KalavrouzosAntonis AntoniouVasilis TsaglosNear the end of the Greek Civil War the last DSE rebels of the Taygetus mountain range try to reach the sea alive.
- DirectorVangelis SerdarisStarsPaschalis TsarouhasTamilla KoulievaVassilis PapanikasA communist woman and a soldier are ostracized for falling in love after the Greek civil war.
- DirectorNikos TzimasStarsMihalis StamatakisKaterina KoutrouvidaMenelaos DaflosTwo fighters, cut up in the mountains, after the defeat of the Democratic Army in 1949, are trying to return to their homes.
- DirectorTasos PsarrasStarsThymios KarakatsanisDimitra HatoupiMirka KalatzopoulouSet during the Greek Civil War, a family is displaced from its village and moved to a derelict building along with hundreds of others. The film documents their lives and struggles during those trying times.
- DirectorAlekos SakellariosStarsVasilis LogothetidisNitsa TsaganeaIlia LivykouA quiet and modest man, disappointed and embittered by the civil war that plagues Greece after WWII, faces Hitler and his Nazis who strike back to retake Greece.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsThemis BazakaDimitris KatalifosMaria MartikaA young couple fight for their love and freedom.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsEva KotamanidouVangelis KazanAliki GeorgouliGreece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsKate NelliganJohn MalkovichLinda HuntA mother's love for her children leads to a son's revenge for her death in this dramatic thriller that begins during the Greek civil war.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsAlexandra AidiniNikos PoursanidisGiorgos ArmenisThe story starts in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni.
- DirectorKostas HaralambousStarsThanos SamarasTasos NousiasEfi GousiDuring 1945 and some months before the outbreak of the Greek Civil War paramilitary groups terrorize and kill leftists in a Greek village.
- DirectorKiril CenevskiStarsDarko DamevskiAco JovanovskiRisto SiskovThe story of Macedonian soldiers who were captured by the Greek army and taken to the prison camps on Greek islands during Greek Civil War in 1946. Suspected of being communists, they are maltreated by the Greek officers running the camp.
- DirectorGiannis HristodoulouStarsHelmut DantineMariannaIrene ChamplinDuring World War II, a beautiful, brave, deadly woman helps to fight against Communists in the Greek Civil War.
- DirectorNick SarafisStarsNikos FotinopoulosThanasis NakosOld lighthouse keeper waits for his son to return on a desolate island during Post Greek Civil war era
- DirectorNikos NikolopoulosVladimir NikolouzosStarsThanassis GeorgiouGeorge Washington Polk, an American journalist working for CBS in Greece during the Greek civil war (1944-1949), walks into a restaurant. During his meal, he discovers that he has already been murdered.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsFaith DomergueEric PohlmannPeter WyngardeA lady reporter covers the murder of CBS newsman during the 1947 Greek civil war, but she's unexpectedly accused of complicity in it.
- DirectorLeonidas VardarosStarsVasilis KolovosPeriklis MoustakisAntonis VlisidisThe 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.
- DirectorGregg G. TallasStarsMaria KostiNikos FermasVasileios FragedakisA young survivor of World War II and former member of the reputed "Barefoot Battalion", a close-knit pack of disciplined orphaned boys, recounts to a homeless street urchin the story of 160 orphans who aided the Resistance.
- DirectorDimos TheosStarsAnestis VlahosKyriakos KatzourakisEleni TheofilouAthens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.
- DirectorDimis DadirasStarsAndreas BarkoulisKetty PapanikaKostas PrekasA secret agent of the Soviets who works at Ka-Ge-Be, Georgi Dimitrijevic, comes to Greece in order to extract information about a secret base of NATO missiles. He meets a teacher from a neighboring village, whose cousin is a major of Greek counterintelligence, Konstantinos Dimou. The Major has undertaken to find and capture the dangerous spy.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsManos KatrakisMary HronopoulouDionysis PapagiannopoulosAn old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.
- DirectorLefteris XanthopoulosStarsAthina PapadimitriuPéter TrokánPolyhronis Zefteridis1800 Greek political refugees and their children return to Greece after 35 years of exile in the village of Beloiannisz, built near Budapest in 1950.
- DirectorCostas VrettakosStarsAlekos AlexandrakisMary HronopoulouVasilis DiamantopoulosA director travels to the villages of mt. Helidona in Greece to interview six siblings living there, whose lives where defined by the events of the Greek Civil War.
- DirectorTasos PsarrasStarsSofocles PeppasThemis BazakaGiorgos ArmenisA 50 year old journalist, son of a civil war hero, who died fighting for the right forces is shattered, when he recognizes him in a documentary, fighting for the communists. He starts searching for the truth, despite his family's objections, who fear that they will lose privileges if the status of the dead changes after the search.