Two women have been written into the story, Greek partisans played very well by Irene Papas and Gia Scala. The cliff-scaling sequence, a scene when the saboteurs are rounded up by the enemy ...

He never joined the Communist Party, and when, during World War II, he offered his services to the Greek partisans, they rejected him as unreliable. Kazantzakis derided the party’s attempt to ...

Greece's parliament has failed to elect a new president of the Republic in the second of four rounds of voting on Friday.