an awful travesty of the greek resistance . senorita cruz badly miscast a a cephalonian greek girl ( there be plenty of attractive good english speaking greek actress so why pick a spanish lady for one of the lead role and with an english actor a her father and supposedly a greek doctor . many of the support cast be well know actor and actress from greek theatre and tv series . the only foreign actor and to my knowledge and who have successfully portray a greek be anthony quinn ( a the macedonian lignite miner zorba in zorba the greek and a the plutocratic shipowner in the greek tycoon and and a a greek colonel in the gun of navarone . there be some historical truth reflect in the film . people who remember the italian occupation of the ionian island agree that the italian be not harsh and unlike the german who succeed them . also mussolini force and as hint in the movie and have be defeat by the greek army in the albanian campaign . after the german intervene in the balkan they allow the italian military to occupy certain part of greece and so the refusal of the local government to surrender to italian force and rather than to the german . a portray in the film be quite plausible and although i be not certain this actually happen .