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[Murataga]

No, I am not kidding you, I am educating you. Educating you to try to think outside of the GC propaganda box. Perhaps you will learn something.

[pitsilos]

and all this knowledge you possess, is it from taking notes while watching reruns of the three stooges?

[the_snake_and_the_crane]

No, I am not kidding you, I am educating you. Educating you to try to think outside of the GC propaganda box. Perhaps you will learn something.

Did you keep a straight face while typing this???

[Pyrpolizer]

What will you do if I proove to you that the movie "akamas" was censored by the illegal GC government in Nicosia Pantheon Art last week?

You are such a joker Murataga. The Nicosia Pantheon Art is a private Cinema man, it can play any commercial movies it likes. If a movie is a shit and is likely to sell zero tickets they will most propably not play it. This is bussiness, you know how bussiness operates.

OK suppose you were the owner of Pantheon Art Cinema. Would you play "THE QUEEN" or "AKAMAS" ?

For further information, tickets, and reservations please call

Pantheon Art Cinema (22675787, 22677389): THE QUEEN 19.45, 22.00

[free_cyprus]

this problem is alive in the north of the island to so i dont know waht the fuss is all about like i said they are all former eoka and tmt the leaders in the south and north soo why is everyone suprised with this move

[Pyrpolizer]

@Murataga

I guess by saying censored you meant "they refused to buy it as it was unprofitable", no?

I wouldn't be suprised, after all who else would distort reality to such a degree, and instead of calling the TRashNcan illegal, calls the Republic of Cyprus as such.

[Murataga]

pyrpolizer- are you prepared to put your word, honor and dignitiy behind your statement that the movie has not been ordered to be removed from play in this particular ciname via a court order, they are free to show it and that they have stopped showing it simply for concerns of profit?

[Murataga]

An unwitting defender of free speech
By Alexia Saoulli
(Thursday, April 5, 2007)

A FILM director said yesterday he was being forced to defend democracy and freedom of expression in Cyprus, following efforts to censor his work.

“There is an organised mechanism in Cyprus made up of individuals who try to terrorise people or ideas that they find dangerous,” said Panicos Chrysanthou, scriptwriter, director and producer of the controversial film Akamas.

Chrysanthou said he had reached this conclusion based on repeated efforts to block his film from being seen by the public.

The most recent incident occurred last Thursday evening when he was handed a court order demanding the copy of Akamas currently showing at Nicosia’s Pantheon Art cinema be seized.

Unknown to Chrysanthou, a former employee of his production company, Artimage, which had undertaken to make Akamas, had sued the company for around 12,000 euros of unpaid wages.

As Artimage’s managing director, Chrysanthou never appeared in court as he was allegedly unaware of the suit.

Nevertheless the court ruled in the plaintiff’s favour in Chrysanthou’s absence.

But the producer questioned why the other side had waited until now to make their move and why they had not seized other assets belonging to the company if money was the issue.

“It’s worthless,” he said, adding that the film could not be sold or aired by anyone else.

“The film doesn’t belong to the company, it belongs to the people who funded it… They waited until now because they wanted the tape. It’s obvious they [the film’s detractors] wanted to stop it from being aired and promoted.”

[Pyrpolizer]

this problem is alive in the north of the island to so i dont know waht the fuss is all about like i said they are all former eoka and tmt the leaders in the south and north soo why is everyone suprised with this move

Which move FC??
The Eokas were all fanatic relegious.Everybody knows that. They would never kill inside a church. The financer (in this case the RoC) asked that the film shows the truth-not some imaginary scene just to cause a schock. So the RoC asked that the killing scene should be in a coffee shop. What more reasonable than that?

A financer has rights and if such a scene was not described in the original script for which they signed an agreement then the producer is wrong.

[zan]

I am still trying to find the photographic evidence...........Has any one got it.