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Drama

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One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work in Greece before the advent of the 1967 dictatorship forced him to flee to Paris. This confused mess, the first cinematic attempt at portraying the Greek resistance in WWII, caused quite a stink upon release, as much for its surprising style (recalling that of Bertolt Brecht) as for its subject matter. Reaction to its screening as part of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival's International Critic's Week was heated and divisive, proving Kyrou's later statement by rising above its own inherent silliness to achieve a sort of rarefied critical status. It's bad drama that nonetheless succeeds by dint of audacity more than quality (a comment which could apply equally to the work of many exploitation directors like Jean Rollin whom Kyrou later so lovingly profiled).

Date: 01/09/1965
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Kostas Kazakos, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Alexandra Ladikou, Giannis Fertis, Manos Katrakis, Kostas Bakas, Koula Agagiotou, Giannis Kondoulis, Eirini Koumarianou, Giorgos Nezos, Hristos Bekiaris, Kostas Diplaros, Theodoros Dovas, Maria Giourousi, Christoforos Himaras

Kostas Kazakos as Kosmas in The Roundup Kostas Kazakos

Xenia Kalogeropoulou as Antigoni in The Roundup Xenia Kalogeropoulou

Alexandra Ladikou as Myrto in The Roundup Alexandra Ladikou

Giannis Fertis as  in The Roundup Giannis Fertis

Manos Katrakis as  in The Roundup Manos Katrakis

Kostas Bakas as  in The Roundup Kostas Bakas

Koula Agagiotou as  in The Roundup Koula Agagiotou

Giannis Kondoulis as  in The Roundup Giannis Kondoulis

Eirini Koumarianou as  in The Roundup Eirini Koumarianou

Giorgos Nezos as  in The Roundup Giorgos Nezos

Hristos Bekiaris

Kostas Diplaros

Theodoros Dovas as  in The Roundup Theodoros Dovas

Maria Giourousi

Christoforos Himaras as  in The Roundup Christoforos Himaras

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