The Making of a Torturer

Your Neighbour's Son

19811h 5m

Documentary

The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police (ESA) recruits into torturers and touches on the subject of the power of the institution to compel otherwise moral human beings to torture. The documentary examines the processes and methods of the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.

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Cast

Simon Patroklos

Michalis Petrou

Self

Your Neighbour's Son

Cast

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