28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
Themes: Portraits: Human jurneys

Greece 2000 35 Video Colour
The film is a portrait of George Zioutos, journalist, editor, publisher, researcher and leftist intellectual, and is based largely on his diaries and notes. Born on Mount Pelion, in 1903, Zioutos studied Law in Athens. He entered journalism at an early age, and worked as a writer and editor for various newspapers. He became actively involved in Greece's workers' movement, and during the German Occupation he was an important figure in the outlawed resistance press of the National Liberation Front (EAM) and the Communist Party. After the armistice, he worked as director of the Communist Party's publishing company "New Books". In 1947, he left for Paris, where he remained until his death in 1967.