''Golden Dawn Girls'' ( no, Hatets vugge, lit=Hate's Cradle) is a political documentary film on the background of the

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organization Golden Dawn, directed by the Norwegian Håvard Bustnes.

Plot

The documentary delves into the far-right organization, something unprecedented to date, narrating the events that have taken place since the creation of the Greek ultra-right party through the gaze of the women who have surrounded the visible faces from the party that, even being in the background due to the deeply

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role of the party, their strong character made the whole party know them. After the arrests of the male leaders, their voice took power within the organization, also influenced by the role of martyrs, shouting "blood, honor, Golden Dawn". To explain different points of view, the documentary follows three different generations with a very different past, such Dafni, who became a member of some left-wing parties: "When I was young, I had totally different political ideas. I was a member of

PASOK The Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( el, Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, Panellínio Sosialistikó Kínima, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (; , ) is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012, it ...

many years. With all the ideals that inspire young people:

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freedom Freedom is understood as either having the ability to act or change without constraint or to possess the power and resources to fulfill one's purposes unhindered. Freedom is often associated with liberty and autonomy in the sense of "giving on ...

and those beautiful ideas that you eventually discover to be a lie." The other two protagonists are Jenny, known for her

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, and Urania, daughter of the organization's leader, and who has the strongest voice in

and violence, not in vain, she was arrested for beating up a Pakistani in 2012.

Main characters

* Dafni, mother of Panayiotis Iliopoulos, was a submarine engineer, hospital director and a socialist militant. * Jenny, known as "wife of hate", spouse of deputy , imprisoned in 2013. * Urania, daughter of the organization's leader,

Nikolaos Michaloliakos Nikolaos G. Michaloliakos ( el, Νικόλαος Γ. Μιχαλολιάκος, ; born 11 December 1957) is a Greek politician and convicted criminal. He is the founder and leader of the far-right party Golden Dawn. In October 2020, he and 67 oth ...

, who was also imprisoned.

Reception

The documentary, directed by Norwegian Håvard Bustnes, was co-produced by

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and

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. Filming began in 2013, when the Norwegian director went to Greece with the aim of reporting the imprisonment of 13 Golden Dawn deputies. The

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was during the

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(IDFA). At the beginning of 2018, it began to be released in

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and

, and since April it reached theaters in

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in its original version with subtitles.

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, journalist and editor of El Diario, highlighted "how they construct a discourse in which their men are heroes of the country", while

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magazine highlighted the "disturbing and tremendously convincing study by Norwegian director Håvard Bustnes on the rapid rise of neo-Nazism in contemporary Greece."

References

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* {{Authority control Norwegian documentary films Documentary films about crime Documentary films about Greece 2017 documentary films Neo-Nazism in Greece 2017 films Danish documentary films Finnish documentary films Films about neo-Nazism

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