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THE 11TH DAY: CRETE, 1941
ALEX G. SPANOS Presents An ARCHANGEL FILMS Production THE 11TH DAY: CRETE 1941 Contact: Eric Bowen, Production Coordinator www.crete1941.com October 12, 2005 The men, women, and children who took on Hitler’s most elite soldiers... and won. SACRAMENTO , CA - It's a film that Chase Brandon, a 30 year veteran operative of the CIA, has proclaimed "one of the greatest untold stories of World War II." Columnist John Kass of the Chicago Tribune and Newsday rallied his readers to the Chicago premiere of this "stirring documentary," telling them, "if you're interested in what fuels an insurgency--and the news is full of that today--you'll want to see this film." U.S. Congressman Michael Bilirakis has hailed it as "an extraordinary film," so moved by the story that he invited director-producer Christos Epperson and writer-producer Michael Epperson to present a special preview to fellow members of Congress in Washington D.C. last year. It has since been acquired for exhibition by America's national World War II museum, The National D-Day Museum, and is currently on a worldwide tour in theaters across America, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The 11th Day chronicles the story of the men, women, and children of the Cretan civilian resistance movement and their relentless battle against Nazi occupation forces from 1941-1945-a battle which inspired Churchill to proclaim, "Until now, we knew that Greeks were fighting like heroes; from now on we shall say that the heroes fight like Greeks." Their stories are told first hand, and on-location, through exclusive interviews with the resistance fighters themselves. Some were just child recruits at the time, boys and girls; others were seasoned veterans, and still others were the Allied soldiers and British intelligence operatives who fought alongside them. Together, they would inflict upon Germany its first major defeat of the war, decimating half of Hitler's 8,000 elite airborne assault troops in the first 48 hours. Cretan civilians fought alongside their comrades from England, Australia, and New Zealand throughout 10 fateful days in May 1941. Once the Germans took over the island, the Cretan people rallied to their first acts of resistance the following day: They risked and gave their lives to help the Allied soldiers escape. Washington, DC Premiere ORDER BY PHONE AT (800) 791-2858 OR VISIT WWW.CRETE1941.COM
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