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It was in the Blue Nile Cinema that I first saw the film ‘Z’ by Costa Gavras, made during the time of the régime of the colonels in Greece. This was an Oscar-winning political thriller made in 1969 and based on a novel by Vassili Vassilikos. It starred Yves Montand, with Jean-Louis Trintignant as the intrepid examining magistrate. It was a polemical film against the régime of the colonels, and a good thriller.
I went to the Greek island of Kos during that period, having invited my parents to join me. We had a good time. My mother rather surprised me by agreeing to sit on the back of a motor scooter which I hired to go around. We visited a Muslim graveyard on the island, with inscriptions in Arabic. One evening in our hotel we gathered that a large central table was occupied by some of those colonels.