Feature film
The Last Mission
Τελευταία αποστολή
Nikos Tsiforos · 1949
Synopsis
A young woman, María, is arrested for murder. At the police station, she tells her story from the first year of the war: her father, an officer, has reached Cairo, while her mother, of Hungarian origin, lives under the Occupation with a German officer. The girl joins the Resistance, and one day her father secretly returns to Greece on a mission, to a house where the occupier has his entrées.
Context
Produced by the Fínos company, the film was photographed by Joseph Hepp, with music by Kóstas Giannídis. Released in April 1949 in three major cinemas in Athens, it was withdrawn from the bill after public protests against a heroine who betrays her husband. The censors imposed changes: the mother, Greek in the screenplay, became Hungarian, and the film returned to cinemas in that form.
Who it is for
Eighty minutes in black and white, in Greek. The whole film is the account that a young woman gives to the police, between the Occupation and the post-war period.
Prizes and reception
First Greek film selected in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was presented in 1951.
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