History Badly Written

Rating: 5/10 (8 October 2006)

It is a good movie but I don't think they should be glorifying Partizans, either Greek or Yugoslav or any other of those communist terrorist movements, that are akin to the insurgents in today's Iraq, Afghanistan or Chechnya. The hanging of that girl is the best metaphor of the evil these terrorists committed. Being Greek I understand the damage these people caused terrorising the country until their defeat in 1949.
It is also worth mentioning that anyone from that part of the world saw the Italians as the villains and the Germans as occupiers at worst and usually liberators, since September 11 it is worth noting that one should not view lightly those such as Captain Corelli who would so easily give weapons to the Al Qaeda of the 1940's.
And it down plays the significance of the Greek victories over Italy in Albania, where 70,000 Greeks smashed 250,000 italians, and would have held off the Germans indefinitely if the Yugoslavs had not faltered.