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Synopsis: In 1941, Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece. On a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Director(s): John Madden
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
R
Year:
2001
131 min
$25,261,240
Website
849 Views


But today your freedom

is in danger.

The Italian Army

sweeps through Albania...

...and her troops get ready to

cross the frontiers of Greece.

Exo Mussolini!

Exo Mussolini!

If you care

about your country...

...then you must fight

to defend her.

Join the war in Albania.

Fight for your mothers,

your sweethearts...

...your wives, your children.

Fight for the freedom...

...for all Greek people to live their

lives with dignity and respect!

When I come back

from the war...

...we will get married.

And I will build a house

for Pelagia...

...on the land

that belonged to my father.

I know we are different.

I don't know about the world.

Where have I been?

What could I know?

I don't know how to say

what I feel inside.

I don't know how to tell you

what is in here.

But I think... I know... Pelagia...

...I love you.

Tomorrow I leave for the war.

Pelagia, come

and dance with me.

I'll write.

I promise.

And promise that

you will write to me.

"My darling, you have not written

since that day I saw you off."

"And I am so terrified that I am not

getting any letters from you..."

"...because you have been

wounded or taken prisoner."

"And I have nightmares

that you are dead."

"Summer has turned to winter..."

"...and I am writing

my hundredth letter to you."

"The wounded who have returned

bring news of terrible conditions."

"Freezing cold, no food."

"But they bring

no news from you."

"Every day I wait

for the mail from Argostoli..."

"...and every day

there is nothing."

"And I feel as if I am going

mad with worry and fear."

"I try not to lose hope..."

"...but I long to feel something,

even if it is only pain."

We won!

We won!

It's over!

We've beaten them in Albania.

Look!

8,000 of us against 14,000 Italians,

and we forced them to withdraw.

What?

Hitler will never let

his lapdog be humiliated.

He will come to Mussolini's aid.

"I have written

this letter a dozen times..."

"...and a dozen times

I have thrown it away."

"I don't know how

to describe my feelings."

"It's as if I've been waiting

a hundred years to hear from you."

"Waiting a hundred years

for you to return."

Pelagia.

This is hopeless.

It's all wrong!

Following the great defeat

of the Italians in Albania...

...Hitler's bombers have

counterattacked...

...and the German Army has driven a path

through to the Greek capital, Athens.

A large number of Greek ships were destroyed

in the bombing of the nearby Port of Piraeus.

On April 27, the Athenian Military

Commissioner General Calvacos...

...officially handed over the keys of the

ancient city to his German counterpart....

...Lieutenant Colonel

Von Zephyr...

...and preparations are underway

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Shawn Slovo

Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood in South Africa under apartheid. She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.In the late 1970s she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films Raging Bull and The King of Comedy. She also made the screenplay for Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight. Slovo currently lives in London and often works for Working Title Films. Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer. more…

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