John Geffroy

A gripping, well-acted drama, based on real historic events. It brings to life stories current in my family: my uncle was involved in the Shelburn network, smuggling allied fliers out of Brittany. These heroes worked quietly for years, with the constant threat of discovery, imprisonment, torture and execution looming over them. PBS should publish the whole mini-series.

A tremendously moving film, spiritually, morally. Really a classic story about how people can be ennobled by the roles they play---whether in a pageant like the Passion play in the film, or in life itself. In the film, a group of misfits--for example, a timid, stammering misfit thought of as a town fool, and a widow both desired and scorned--are transformed by their roles in the play, and emerge as patriots in a (probably) doomed resistance movement against the Ottoman oppressors. When I saw it so many years ago, I thought it was the best film I had ever seen (I was 20 yrs. old at the time). I wonder what I would think of it now--if the occasion to see it again ever presents itself (it hasn't been available for two generations).