Attila '74 - The Rape of Cyprus

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Summary: Rape or raped
Review: No film can tell the real sufferings from both sides. The film is biased a priori and doesn't reflect the truth at all.. Historians will judge based on sound data and tell us both the Turks and Greeks about the Island. Many questions: Why UK didn't act as she must have, why massacres done by EOKA to Turks before the invasion is not mentioned? why many common graves are not mentioned?, why Greece didn't stop the Coup D'etateers? And many.. SO Let's stop discussing about the past and see a common beneficial and friendly future to býth nations. Love to all Greeks and Turks who suffered.

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Summary: Tragedy with dignity
Review: ÒMichael Cacoyannis turned his cameras away from ancient Greek tragedy and Zorba to events happening on his own island, Cyprus. He worked with a small camera and no actors. The chorus, as we have known in Electra, Iphigenia or the Trojan Women, are the tragic figures of the tragedy of Cyprus, of Cacoyannis¢ own people. These people were betrayed by the Greek military junta of Athens and then invaded and raped by what was considered the best army in Europe, the Turkish army. These were, in the words of the British Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, refugees in their own land.
Michael Cacoyannis is not afraid to castigate the major powers and the Greeks for the disaster they brought down on this small Mediterranean island, which still today remains divided with the problem unsolved.
Attila ¡74 is reality. That is why in reviews in these pages, Greeks and Turks wrote against it. I am a Cypriot and I say bravo to the honesty of Michael Cacoyannis.Ó

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Summary: it missed something...
Review: so this dvd, is what i grew up with. because i am a christian orthodox cypriot. 25 years old, i know that what you will see on this video is not quite unbiased. there is nothing as such when refferring to modern history. the facts though remain the same. as soon as cyprus was free and independant to choose her fate after the heroic struggle of the right wing nationalists for freedom, and the hiding and traditory acts of the left, it was then that the greek junta was instructed to leave cyprus in the hands of makarios, the looser leader, the people's only choice since he didnt leave anyone oppose him, and eventually the distruction of the island. then the turks that claimed to be suffering in cyprus by the greek cypriots were used for propaganda from turkey, to invade the island. turkey had maps of cyprus, divided as it is today, on the walls of elementary schools in turkey, since the 1950s. so coup or not, turkey had its plans. and the video shows a bit of the pain of the normal people, that lost perents, brothers and sisters. WE GREEK CYPRIOTS KNOW WE ARE THE WEAK ONES IN ARMS, BUT NO CORRUPT TURK CAN KILL OUR SPIRIT.

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Summary: 1963 - 1974
Review: The reviews i have read for the movie attila 1974 are nothing more than greek propoganda. Greeks and greek cypriots are the root cause of the entire cyprus problem. They are the ones that broke the 1960 constitution not the turks. They are the ones that killed thousands of turks between 1963 and 1974, they are the ones that illegaly imported arms to use against turks. They provoked a turkish intervention for 20 years and when it finally happened they pointed the finger at us and turkey. They forced turkish cypriots to live in enclaves for 15 years. The real root to the cyprus problem is the hate breeding that is going on in the illegal greek cypriot government. They say makarios is a great leader but he was quoted as saying "if turkey invades to save the turks, their will be no turk to save" They raped turkish women for years, tied people up and cut their throats without discriminating age or sex. Greeks killed infants who were hanging on to their mother. Turkey intervened in cyprus with peacekeeping intentions. they did not fire on anybody until they were fired on first. i have no pity for greeks and greek cypriots who try to twist the real facts and make it seem like their was an invasion. Their will be no solution to cyprus until they can accept a turkish state

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Summary: cacoyannis' political agenda
Review: This 'movie' is but a textbook example of why such films with a political agenda are always bound to fail.

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Summary: Shows the Naked Truth About This Tragedy
Review: This documentary lays bare the aftermath of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. No excuses are made for the Greek military junta and the mistakes they made in Cyprus. But the crude savagery of the Turks wreaked unspeakable pain and suffering on the innocent Greek Cypriots. The Turks did the same thing to millions of Armenians, and today they continue to deny their barbaric acts. Anyway, this film makes the viewer feel like he or she is right there in the streets and refugee camps of Cyprus. Most importantly, this film shows the underlying humanity of a couragious people in the face of tremendous brutality.

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Summary: Shocking
Review: This documentary shows the suffering of the Greek people, caused by turkish barbarism, while their memories were still fresh. In no way was the invasion a response to the rebellion against the corrupt Makarios, since Turkey had planned this invasion ever since the birth of the Cypriot state, after the 1955-1959 freedom struggle of EOKA. Of course the liars and communists of AKEL like to think that they know everything, but if it weren't for the heroes of EOKA B and the units of the Greek army stationed in Cyprus, while AKEL members ran to the mountains for safety, all of Cyprus would have fallen to the invader.

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Summary: A total misconseption of the facts!
Review: Well I would like to tell the producer of this film to do more research when he or someone like him would do this type of movie. Also, I would have liked to see all aspectes of the cause of the invasion of that Island. We were only shown from only one view point. That's not right, also why would a film producer show the nationists as crazed poeple?. They were trying to unit Cyprus with Greece not try to take the Island over. Unless the producer was only giving us his impression of what happened on that Island, if'sthat's the case then he was just to make a quike buck that's all. He had no intention of presenting the facts, just his idea of what took place. I don't know if this person is from Cyprus, but if he is, then he has no clue of what heppened to all those poor poeple and what really took place. For excample, why was Cyprus invaded, why did the nationist acted that way, why did Macario acted that way, what led up to the invation of cyprus. I don't want to go through all the specifics, because I don't have the space, but I will say this. The producer did follow the five basic's of reporting a story, and they are when, where, who, what and why. My last thoughts on this matter is as follows. The producer of this film a lot to learn when he makes a film about real life events, and please do us Greeks and the world a faver, either learn from your mistakes or go do other types of films like fiction.

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Summary: Bias Embodied!
Review: Where is objectivity? This is a single-sided projection of history... Always a failure!