Tuesday 18 March at 19:00 

The courageous documentary by Sakis Maniatis and Giorgos Tseberopoulos, following the style of direct cinema, deals with the struggle of the peasants in Megara against the decision of the junta, in the context of its neoliberal policies, to expropriate a large area of olive groves for the installation of an oil refinery. The last part of the film documents how the peasants, after hearing the court’s decision to support the expropriation, join in protest the uprising of the Polytechnic School in November ’73. The resistance of the people of Megara and the positive outcome of their struggle was the first mass manifestation opposing the dictatorship, and “Megara” left its mark in the annals of Greek cinema history as one of the most important modern documentaries.

Yorgos Tsemperopoulos, co-director in attendance

Restoration

The new digital copy was created in the framework of the action “Motherland, I see you”.