Director: Nikos Tzimas
1980
The movie is about Nikos Beloyannis - a Greek communist and resistance leader born in Amaliada (Peloponnese, Greece) in 1915. He was jailed in the Akronauplia prison (Nauplion) by the Ioannis Metaxas nationalist regime in the 1930s and transferred to the Germans after the Nazi Occupation of the country (1941). He escaped and joined the Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) in Peloponnese on the side of Aris Velouchiotis. After becoming Political Commissioner of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) during the Greek Civil War he was one of the last to leave the country after its defeat.
Awards:
Moscow International Film Festival 1981
Special Diploma / Golden Prize - Nikos Tzimas
Thessaloniki Film Festival 1980
3rd place – Best Film
