In October 2020, the biggest trial in modern Greece comes to an end. The court ruling is clear: The Parliament’s third-largest party over several years is a criminal organization. What is it like to cover such a trial for five and a half years? A conversation with the people who were there.
How to resist? What sort of action to adopt against Nazism, fascism and the extreme right? Can Democracy still eradicate them once and for all without bending its own principles? How to fight back? Is the solution to be given by the courts? A political blockade from all political parties? A media boycott? Raising social awareness? A better education in school? Or is it a more physical resistance? A trial all the more important than the one of Nurenberg is the backbone of this documentary.
What’s in the mind of the neo-nazi next-door? “My partner in life is a Jew, one of my sons is gay, another is an anarchist, and I am a left-wing feminist as well as a daughter of immigrants. If Golden Dawn comes to power our only problem will be which wagon they will put us on.” A journalist is delving for years into the organization of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. The financial collapse, the political instability and the family relations are placed into the spotlight as the documentary is trying to discover “what’s in the head of Golden Dawners, who pose as victims of the system.”
Angelique Kourounis had consistently honored the work of journalism, working for a number of years as a correspondent for many French-speaking in high prestige, but above all she left behind an invaluable legacy through two brave and shocking documentaries. The films Golden Dawn: A Personal Case (2016) and Golden Dawn: A Case of All of Us (2021), which were screened at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (with the latter winning three awards at the 23rd ΤIDF), will never stop reminding us that the belief in the value of democracy and resistance to obscurantism and intolerance is the duty and obligation of all of us at all times. Angelique Kourounis, was one of the most courageous and valuable voices of the Greek documentary.
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