Amari in Flames

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20th TDF: World premiere

The documentary narrates the holocaust of eight villages in Rethymnon, Crete, on 22 August 1944, by Nazi occupation forces, during which 164 inhabitants where executed in retaliation for the abduction of German General Karl Heinrich Kreipe. The executions and the holocaust occurred simultaneously in all eight settlements. Not one stone was left upon another. All properties were ravaged by the Nazis.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Tasos Birsim
Script: Yannis Kanellakis, Manolis Pantinakis
Editing: Dimitris Pliagkos
Production: Buddies LTD
Producers: Yannis Kanellakis, Manolis Pantinakis
Narration: Stelios Fokas
Format: DCP
Color: Color/B&W
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2017
Duration: 36'
Contact: Buddies LTD, nikos@vergetis.com

Tasos Birsim

Filmography

2014 Burning Women at Kali Sykia by German Nazis (short)
2017 Amari in Flames