The Greek Testament (1943)

Documentary №65601, 5 parts, black-white
Availability:Film hasn't been digitized
Director:Hasse Charljz. Hasse Charles

Reel №1

A documentary with staged footage of Nazi aggression in Greece.

Antique hall of the museum, a bas-relief with the cavalry, statues.

One of the guards - Greek - says about his second homeland.

PNRM. the Greek coast from the sea.

Ruins of ancient buildings, on a wall mural with pictures of rural life.

The mountains, the vineyards on the slopes, a Greek village.

There is a vintage, women bear grapes in baskets, poured into barrels.

Grapes fall to the canvas, covering from the scorching sun.

Slightly dried grapes is under pressure in the winepress, the man turns the handle of the machine.

Village Festival, are the people dressed in festive national dress, orchestra.

Male dance in the dance.

Large wagon with bags of wine sample.

Greek landscapes, ships on the water.

Genre and everyday scenes in the village.

The old woman spinning yarn on the spindle, the children collect water from the column, men drink wine at the table.

Farmer milking a goat, the other tries to move stubborn donkey from their seats.

Steep mill wheel.

The potter molds vessels, put in the oven for roasting ready huge containers.

Threshing with the help of horses.

People laugh.

Running herd of horses

Key words

Greece, Museum, mountains, farmers, village, holiday, dance, agriculture, domestic animals

Reel №2

Swirling wings of a windmill.

Men constructing a boat.

Fishing vessels with sails out into the sea.

The old women are waiting on the shore, spun into yarn.

Grand Cross of the church to the chapel.

There is a procession with the icon of the Virgin.

The monks are on the church gallery.

City Karaklion, PNRM. the city, the port.

Street market.

A street shoe shiner, street photographer, florist shop.

Sport, running in the stadium, the baton.

Folk dances.

Italy, Mussolini speaks to the Phalangists, a parade of Italian troops.

Refugees sit in the boat.

Mussolini in the helmet.

Parade of troops are the tanks, guns, planes are flying.

Greek ships loading.

Italy.

Mussolini hugging officer.

Italian airport with a huge number of aircraft.

They're coming soldiers, hold the balloon over the lines, let up.

Top view of a military column of the machine.

Whistle steamer ship goes through the channel.

The train moves on a high bridge across the chasm.

Mediterranean Map.

The mountains, the waves beating against the rocks, calm sea night.

Invasion of Italian troops in Albania, comes the cavalry.

Ancient ruins. 1941.

British troops arrive in Greece.

Machines called female names, motorcycles, guns, tanks

Key words

Greece, fishermen, Church, Italy, Mussolini, the port, the troops, the parade, military technique, balloon, navy, railway, bridge, mountains, Albania, refugees, War World 2

Reel №3

The German invasion of Greece.

The raids of German aircraft and explosions.

German machinery, soldiers shooting guns.

Aircraft bombed the road from the pop-up trucks by British soldiers.

The explosion of the bridge.

Plane over the mountains above the city.

Paratroopers of the Germans.

The Greek refugees with belongings on carts, the ruins of houses.

The German occupation of Greece.

Women and children dig in the garbage looking for edible food.

Exhausted resident lying on the sidewalk.

Butcher, a German soldier buys meat, woman looking in the window, the inscription only for the Germans.

Make arrests, German soldiers taschyat man on the stairs at home.

Issuance ausvays and certificates in the commandant's office.

Greeks driven by truck to a concentration camp, opened the gate, the truck pulls.

A crowd of people, the German guards.

Some brave souls at night listening to the radio.

The Gestapo burst into the house, in the room the woman and her son, made a search.

A night on the town walking patrols.

Several men gather secretly preparing to flee by boat, stocking food and water.

Night, time runs along the coast, it is killed.

The Greeks sit in a boat floating.

The Germans fired after

Key words

Greece, the Air Force, bombing, military equipment, soldiers, paratroopers, arrest, concentration camp by the Gestapo, World War 2

Reel №4

Sea.

The house of the English romantic poet Byron in Italy, the exhibit is a book about Childe Harold.

Greek port, is loaded on the ship.

The fugitive enters the store, it is passed through the back door.

Restaurant, men playing cards, drinking coffee.

The port is assembling the ship.

The train goes to England, among passengers of Greek.

The fugitive gets to the naval school and becomes a cadet.

Exercises with torpedoes.

Military exercises on the ship.

On command, the men took places at the guns.

The barracks, cadets are resting.

Someone plays the harmonica.

Students-the Greeks dancing Sirtaki under national instruments

Key words

Italy, the sea, the museum, Port, England, military school, World War 2

Reel №5

Nelson Monument, passes by operation of cadets.

Construction of the destroyer. 1943 Greek torpedo is launched.

The men with bags over their backs are on board.

Story sailors on deck.

The service on the ship, the ship's consecration.

Flag Raising.

The destroyer at sea convoy, moving spotlight.

The radio operator at the transmitter, the signalman raises flags.

The destroyer in the campaign against Crete.

There are German planes, a ship alarm is declared.

Guns from the destroyer fired on the aircraft.

Night battle explosions.

In Greece, there is a struggle against the invaders.

In the mountains of the explosion, the train is flying into the abyss.

The Germans begin reprisals against civilians are arrested.

The shooting of civilians by the Germans against the wall of the church of the first machine gun, the officer then finished off with a pistol.

View of Athens, the Acropolis, the Parthenon columns.

Greek warship, a gun.

Silhouette destroyer at sunset.

Acropolis

Key words

Greece, Navy, state symbols, the air force, explosions, shooting, architecture, world war 2

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