Greek Civil War - Representation in Culture

Representation in Culture

• The Greek Civil War is the background to Nikos Kazantzakis' 1964 novel Fratricides (also published as Father Yanaros).
• One of the two narratives within Barry Unsworth's 1967 novel The Greeks Have a Word For It concerns the aftermath of the war.
• The documentary movie Greek Civil War (1997) by Roviros Manthoulis provides a comprehensive look into the civil war. It starts with the Stalin-Churchill agreement and ends with the accounts of the people who have participated in the war with interviews done in the 1990s.
• Crno seme (Black Seed), a 1971 film by Kiril Ceneski about a number of Macedonian soldiers in Greek Royal Army, and their fate after WW2.
• The Civil War forms part of The Travelling Players, by Theo Angelopoulos, a 1975 film with a wide timeframe, running from 1939 to 1952.
• The Brotherhood of War: The Lieutenants (1982), book 1 in the series by W. E. B. Griffin, has two of its major characters and one lesser character involved with the Military Advisory Group (MAG) in Greece. It is referenced throughout the rest of the series, but is given detail in the first book.
• The tragic end to DSE Division III in the Peloponnese is depicted in the film The Descent of the 9, made by Christos Siopachas in 1985.
• The war forms the backdrop to the 1985 film Eleni, with John Malkovich.
• Psyhi vathia, a 2009 film by Pantelis Voulgaris, recounts the story of two brothers fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War.
• The novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres, while dealing primarily with the Italo-German occupation of the Greek island of Cephallonia, also includes a secondary story line of the resistance movement during the occupation and the eruption between the Greeks following the departure of the Germans.