The Noose

Directed by Kostas Koutsomitis

With Socrates Alafouzos, Vladimiros Kiriakidis, Stelios Pavlou, Dimitris Karambetsis and Aias Manthopoulos

In the fall of 1948, shortly before the end of the civil war in Greece, six young leftists traveled to Athens, boarded a plane to Thessaloniki, and forced the pilot to fly them to neighboring Yugoslavia, where they would seek political asylum along with other comrades. Their plan went off without a hitch and went down in history as the first hijacking ever.