‘The Last Note’ screening brings Nazi executions for 200 Greeks back into focus

A special screening of The Last Note will bring 1 of the astir harrowing moments of Nazi concern successful Greece backmost into focus, arsenic Greek Australian Conversations presents the movie astatine the Brunswick Picture House connected Sunday 31 May.

Directed by Pantelis Vougaris, the movie dramatises the execution of 200 Greek absorption fighters successful Kaisariani connected May 1, 1944, carried retired by German forces successful retaliation for a partisan ambush.

The screening takes spot aft the renewed attraction connected precocious rediscovered wartime photographs depicting the executions. The images papers the last moments of the condemned men arsenic they were marched toward the firing squad—reportedly singing partisan songs successful an enactment of defiant solidarity. The photos person been declared a protected nationalist monument by the Greek Government and held by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

The photographs were uncovered by 96-year-old Vangelis Sakkatos, who recalled witnessing the executions arsenic a child.

“Their heroism was the stuff of myth,” Sakkatos told The Guardianl earlier this year.

“The years whitethorn person passed, but I haven’t forgotten.”

Following the screening of The Last Note a treatment will beryllium held with erstwhile ABC Radio National journalist, Phil Kafcaloudes.

One of the harrowing photographs shows absorption fighters lining up earlier their execution by Nazi occupying forces successful Greece during World War II. Photo: Hellenic Ministry of Culture

Kafcaloudes, has written and published a publication and play Someone Else’s War, based connected his grandma Olga Stambolis—a Greek Resistance combatant and wartime spy—has agelong explored the silences surrounding migrant wartime memory.

“I realised my grandma was this different woman,” helium said, aft discovering her diary — the instauration for the novel. “Mrs Stan, arsenic she called herself, died successful 1960, aged 58,” helium said successful 2025

He said that soundlessness was communal among Greek migrants of that generation. “So galore Greeks connected our street would not sermon the war,” helium said.

Stambolis aboriginal worked for U.S. diplomat John Emil Peurifoy during the post-liberation and Civil War period, a clip when erstwhile absorption members often recovered themselves connected opposing sides of a fractured governmental landscape.

“She spied for the Allies against the Nazis, but things got very confused during the Civil War,” Kafcaloudes said.

The screening of The Last Note will take place, Sunday 31 May 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:50 PM (UTC+10) astatine the Brunswick Picture House, Brunswick VIC and is presented by Greek Australian Conversations.