The Colonels have gone - and Greek cinema is emerging again. Gavin Millar talks to Melina Mercouri in Athens where she is finishing her first film since her return from exile.
He also talks to Theodor Angelopoulos, the director of The Travelling Players, the epic to be shown on BBC2 next Saturday and which many believe to be the greatest film ever to come out of Greece.
Arena: Cinema pays a visit to the set of The Greek Tycoon in Pireus, the harbour of Athens, to see what Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset make of playing a multimillionaire shipping magnate and the widow of an assassinated US President...