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A bloody Civil War took Greece under its grip just after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The hostilities between the governmental army supported by the USA and Britain and the Democratic Army of Greece (ELAS) continued until 1949 when the western powers and the Greek government were able to negotiate a peace settlement with the communists after Britain landed combat troops in the country. Famous Greek director Photos Lambrinos found out by chance that a Turk took part inn the struggle on the side of ELAS and immediately decided to make a documentary about him. He was I said Mihri Belli, a well-known figure in Turkey’s political left. “It was a casual information given to me by a friend in the beginning of 2007, in Komotini (Gumulcine). He was a Turk from Komotini, Sami Karabuyukoglu. He works at the state radio there. We became good friends and as we were talking about this and that, he asked whether I am aware of the existence of Mihri Belli, I said ‘no.’” Lambrinos explains how he came to know about Mihri Belli. Karabuyukoglu, tells Lambrinos about Belli’s participation in the Greek Civil War on the side of the communists. “It was a Tuesday and by Saturday, after I went to Athens and borrowed a camera from a friend, I was in his (Mihri Belli’s) home shooting the first pictures,” says Lambrinos. They started talking in Greek and as they went on, says Lambrinos, Belli’s Greek became more fluent. He remembered the language he learned on the Rodopi mountains northeastern Greece. Lambrinos says that he noted down the things Belli had to say about his life as a fighter. “From that initial material shot almost nothing was included in the film. I used that material to set up the […]