One production stars Nia Vardalos, the Greek-Canadian writer and star of «My Big Fat Greek Wedding,» the 2002 romantic comedy that became one of the most successful independent US box office productions of all time. The Hollywood star, whose wife Rita Wilson is of Greek descent, is helping bankroll two movies which officials here hope will translate into extra tourist arrivals at the country’s archaeological sites and island holiday spots. At times an excruciating example of how jealousy, paranoia and power corrupt, and how the lust for power not only brings out the worst in mankind, but as is so often the case, enables the worst of mankind.Decades after serving as the setting for hit films like «The Guns of Navarone» and «The Big Blue,» Greece has elicited help from Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks to get back on Hollywood’s radar. Incredibly insightful into the values, roles, societal and cultural expectations of life in rural Greece at the time (pre to post WW2 and the following Civil War), and how they impacted on and constrained a woman’s desperate attempt to survive and protect her children from the barbarism, hardship, famine and persecution brought by civil war. Nicholas Gage joined his father in Massachusetts at the age of nine and grew up to become a top New York Times investigative reporter, honing his skills with one thought in mind: to return to Greece and uncover the one story he cared about most: the story of his mother.Įleni takes you into the heart a village destroyed in the name of ideals and into the soul of a truly heroic woman.Ī powerful and immersive piece of work. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, forty-one, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist “camps” inside the Iron Curtain.
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