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From The Press
The row about the Cypriot film "Akamas"
Controversy over Cypriot film 'Akamas'
"The joy felt by Greek Cypriots when the Venice Film Festival announced it had for the first time selected a movie by a compatriot ['Akamas' by Panicos Chrysanthou] soon turned into concern that swept the whole county," writes leader writer Takis Kounafis. "The controversy focuses on a scene showing the murder of a Greek Cypriot by the Cypriot resistance in a church during Good Friday mass. The Cypriot authorities are entitled to censure the scene, because the Culture and Education Ministry has co-produced the film and put up 150,000 Cypriot lire [over 200,000 euros], but primarily because, by showing the scene on-screen, the director adopts Turkish and British positions on the independence struggle in 1955 and the Turkish Cypriot revolt. The organizers of the Venice Film Festival must take into consideration the ministry's opposition."
Courrier Énternational
21/08/2006
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