recollections
Section 19. Khartoum Cinemas (around 1970, and 2000)
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The next day, which was the Orthodox Easter, we saw banners in the streets, saying in Greek ‘Christ is risen, Greece is risen’ with the Phoenix symbol employed by the régime. This was sinister. The colonels had banned the music of Mikis Theodorakis, an ardent communist, and a fine musician.             He had fought, as a teenager, to resist the Italian forces in the Second World War, at the time when the only countries in the world which were resisting the Axis powers were Britain and Greece. He wrote the score for the film ‘Zorba the Greek’. For an extended trailer of the film showing Anthony Quinn as Zorba meeting the character played by Alan Bates, click here.