Year: 1980
Runtime: 210 mins
Language: Greek
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, seizes a group of British tourists and holds them for ransom. He demands that Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens grant amnesty to his band of freedom fighters, using the hostages as leverage.
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