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Music for the film was written by Mikis Theodoraks, the famous Greek composer. He is a long-standing activist for progressive causes, and had marched with Lambrakis. After the death, Theodarakis wrote: It is a law that assassins drown in the blood of their victtims. ... A single Lambrakis is more than enough to send them all to their graves. Lambrakis is lost but thousands of Lambrakides have been won-thousands of suns which will keep him alive and illuminate his memory. Thus, the use of his music in the movie is even more appropriate. The film won two academy awards, one for best foreign film. |
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It was a frightening time to attract the attention of the senior officials. This image from the film shows a classic scene. The honest, and largely apolitical, prosecutor (in the middle) is being confronted by two senior officials who are, with a mixture of blandishments and threats, trying to get him to confine his attention to the small fish and not look too closely at who or what might have motivated them to act. It is a scene that reoccurs often in corrupt systems: the moment when someone who tries just to "do his job" is confronted with a costly choice. |
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For more information | |
Read an interview with Costa-Gavras about the film (Up 8/1/21; posted 9/23/19) | |
Prosecutor Christos Sartzetakis is profiled at Wikipedia (Up 8/1/21; posted 3/13/07) | |
More on Gregoris Lambrakis at Greece.com (Up 9/23/19) | |
Theodorakis web site (Up 1/10/20; posted 8/29/04) | |
Sources for the narrative given here | |
Internet Movie Database entry For credits, actors, etc. (Up 9/23/19; posted 8/28/04) | |
Roubatis, Tangled Webs, The U.S. in Greece, 1947-67, p. 158 | |
Mikis Theodorakis, Journal of Resistance, p. 305 | |
C. M. Woodhouse, Modern Greece, p. 284. |
Last modified 8/1/21; posted 8/28/04; original content © 2021; 2004 John P. Nordin |