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A documentary about the EAM Resistance during the Occupation period in Athens ('41-'44). 14 stories. 14 stories. A people against the Italian and German invaders and their local collaborators. A documentary about collective memory. Partizans of Athens (2018 - 72') Directed by: Xenofontas Vardaros, Yiannis Xydas Research - Screenplay: Yiannis Xydas Narration: Rigas Axelos Director of photography - Editing: Xenofontas Vardaros Sound engineering - Mixing: Andreas Govas Original music: drog_A_tek Camera: Xenofontas Vardaros, Christos Panagos Translation - Subtitling: Ilias Diamesis Graphic editor: Kostas Minaidis Communication manager - Transcripts: Sevi Salagianni Production: Collective Memory Group A documentary about the EAM Resistance during the Occupation period in Athens ('41-'44). 14 stories. 14 stories. A people against the Italian and German invaders and their local collaborators. A documentary about collective memory. Starting from the testimonies of people who took part in the Resistance, the documentary The Partisans of Athens attempts to shed light on known and unknown stories of their struggle, as they took place in the districts of Athens. From the famine period of '41-'42, the sit-ins of the popular committees and National Solidarity, the grand marches against conscription and the descent of the Bulgarians, the battles of ELAS and OPLA in the districts, the establishment of the EAM on the initiative of the KKE, the illegal proclamations and slogans of EPON on the walls until its liberation Athens the protagonists compose a mosaic of experiences, struggles and expectations about how they chose to confront defeatism and collaboration with Nazism-fascism. The personal stories "bind" with rare archival material, original music by drog_A_tek and today's footage from the Haidari camp, the Kaisariani Shooting Range and the districts of Athens. "...in the war, all of us are brothers, we are a fire that shines in the ravaged earth... and from our youth the flame will shine all around, because the lot fell in the youth of freedom." (resistance song of the time) They took part (in alphabetical order) Valimitis Dimitris Voskopoulou Kouva Maria Zamanos Stelios Zacharias Manos Katimertzis George Maragoudakis Kostas Balanos Nikos Nikiforakis Zachos Nikolaou Elli Dermitzoglou Vangelis Papadimitriou George Petropoulou Zoi Sfakianakis Nikos Savvatianou Eleni Contact details: facebook.com/athenspartisans/