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Thu 11 Nov 2009Tale of two brothers recalls the bitterness of Greece's civil war
LETTER FROM GREECE:A veteran film-maker is attempting ‘to reconcile the bloodiest pages’ of modern Greek history, writes RICHARD PINE
AT THE opening of The Mundy Scheme, Brian Friel’s now neglected 1969 play, the audience is asked: “What happens to an emerging country when it has emerged?” Too often, the sad answer is civil war, as, for example, Ireland and Finland found in the years immediately following independence.
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