1920 X 816 H.264 2CD video @8300k video bitrate We are simultaneously posting a 720p ENG-ITA version (its 4 mins shorter) diff subs
448k Dolby AC3 6ch audio (sounds just a bit nicer for volume as the 1536k DTS audio track we have in our archives for this version)
Subtitles available at the link below for English Dutch Farsi German Portuguese Romanian Russian Swedish Turkish
(will post on the net too) We also have CD1 subs done for Italian and are working on CD2
This movie, set on a Greek island during WWII tries to contrast the nature of the people there
along with their neighbours, the great men of Italy that are in the main being given as example
of men who seem to endure a bit of insults that go beyond the pale such as from the Greek town Hall
Chief, and the woman of Greece played by Penelope Cruz who is mainly a tease in this movie and is quite hurtful at times.
The contrast sets the men of Greece and Italy as men who love their communities, each other that is as in a brotherhood of merited feeling and sanity and sense of merit in a valid idea of human
idealism. showing in the examples great comraderry even in sharing music and times of fellowship.
On the other hand, the grief that befalls us all as we witness the massacre by German army troops
using machine gun style of attack on unarmed Italian soldiers who have just surrendered their
weapons is meant to cast aspersions on the lack of humanity that such greatly human men
of this region are inflicted with as we see in this contrasting example and the response of the German
commander when confronted on the massacre.
One has to remember that German officers, senior commanders did in fact all too often even carry out the destruction of German farms and their ability to feed the German people with such acts of sabotage
and destruction, on the orders of a lunatic Adolf Hitler who wanted nothing to fall into "enemy hands"
Enemies indeed. Ultimately what does in the Germans in the mind of most people is that Adolf
Hitler too often serves as an example of who they are thought to have been in their minds given
that they followed him with seeming madness all the way to destruction, using too many freaks on the public stage as was Himmler clearly and those involved in obvious atrocities for which there is no defence in any other idea of what this was therefore all about in the minds of those with merit in terms of conscience reflecting on it all even today and forever more no doubt. never again. Amen
Thanks for seeding
Michael Rizzo Chessman
(moviesbyrizzo)
When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephalonia (Kefalonia), but Hollywood made it into a pure love story by removing much of the "unpleasant" stuff.
