The film is based on one of the most shattering historical events of World War II: the execution of 200 Greek partisans by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944, in Kaisariani, a district in Attica, in reprisal for a Greek Resistance ambush against the Nazis. Napoleon Soukatzidis (Andreas Konstantinou), a 34-year-old Cretan born in Asia Minor, exiled or imprisoned since 1936, is the leading character of the film. Soukatzidis is a highly educated man, used as a translator in the detention camp, who is offered to be spared execution by the German Commander towards the end. Soukatzidis refuses the German Commander's proposal and accompanies his comrades in death, thus remaining faithful to his ideology and principles.
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