The Surrender of Tournavos

This is one of four films devoted to the Greek-Turkish war in 1897. The surrender itself took place in April. These reconstructed newsreels are undoubtedly a completely unique approach by a French director to the meaning of the term documentary. Based on available news reports, he attempts to provide a visual representation of events for a number of well-known occurrences without actually needing to provide additional factual information about them and relying solely on the audience's interest. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)