In 6 episodes, SKAI viewers watched the shocking events that determined the fate of Cyprus and changed the history of modern Greece
The great documentary series “Dark Decade 1964-1974” by Alexis Papahela was completed, and in six episodes SKAI viewers watched the shocking events that determined the fate of Cyprus and changed the history of modern Greece. The positive response of the public was reflected in the 3,110,675 viewers her of SKAI television who watched for at least 1 minute one of the six episodes of the series, to its users HYBRID and to the online visitors of https://www.skai.gr/tv. who saw and can watch video on demand the episodes of the series at the time they wish. The press wrote positive to laudatory reviews and the audience excellent comments on social media about the documentary made by the renowned journalist and director of the newspaper “I Kathimerini” with his partners.
The accurate recording of the events was based on years of journalistic research, with rare archival material based on more than 40 Greek and international sources – agencies, museums, institutions, libraries, news and photo agencies, television channels, individuals – and on interviews with persons from the Greece and abroad that were protagonists and witnesses of the critical decade 1964-1974. Historians, University professors, journalists, photojournalists, politicians, diplomats, soldiers expressed their in-depth opinion on the development of events, citizens who lived the intense situation closely gave their own dramatic story, while rare audio documents, such as the crucial War Council of 1974 and the recording of Eleni Vlacho (the then Director of the newspaper “Kathimerini) in 1967 came to light and were presented for the first time on Greek television.
The realization of the production took place with filming in Greece and Cyprus at key points that determined the development of the events and with dramatized representations that “come to life” on the screen of SKAI what shockingly happened in the critical hours.
How did we get to the hot summer of 1974 and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus? The gripping six-episode political thriller, among other things recorded:
The fall of Dimitrios Ioannidis
The Operation Victory fiasco
Ioannidis to the War Council: “Let them enter Kyrenia and then intervene”
“We declare war!”
“For 5 hours they had no order to hit the Turks”
“I informed the staff that there was a landing in Cyprus and they did not believe me”
The coup against Makarios
The moment of the tank invasion of the Polytechnic University
“Cyprus is so much, give it to us to finish!”
“Cut off their water and telephone, they will be thrown out like mice”
Eleni Vlachou records her reactions in the first moments of the coup
“Dark Decade 1964-1974”
Screenplay: Alexis Papachelas (Based on his books “The Rape of the Hellenic Republic” published by Estia and “A Dark Room” published by Metaichmio)
Directed by: Stefanos Bertakis
Editor-in-Chief: Sakis Ioannidis
Scientific Advisor: Tasos Sakellaropoulos
Production Execution: Leonidas Liampeis, Long Run Productions
Source: Skai
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