Affection to the People (2013)

7.0/10 • 91 min • Documentary

Overview

A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on never-before-seen state archives. The film includes clips of films which were either censored or banned, newsreels of that era, interviews with famous directors and also secret documents from the reports of the Censorship Committee that are made public for the first time, portraying a revealing picture of the system’s control mechanisms and providing a fresco of that time.

Cast

Georgia Anesti

Self - Narrator (voice)

Pantelis Voulgaris

Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos

Nikos Koundouros

George Dialegmenos

Costa-Gavras

Theo Angelopoulos

Thanasis Rentzis

Sakis Maniatis

Giorgos Tsemperopoulos

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