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.
Amari in Flames
Το Αμάρι στις φλόγες
20th TDF: World premiere
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