a year 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 a section Competitive selection Out of competition Fipatel a category Aspects of French Production Aspects of European Production Special Screenings Tribute Young Artists

Who Basil Zaharoff? The most powerful and cynical arms merchant of all times? The richest man on earth in the early 20th Century? A mysterious figure that hovered behind governments at the dawn of WWI? An armaments tycoon who knew how to manipulate the belligerents in order to sell weapons to both sides, as described by Hergé in Tintin’s adventure “The Broken Ear”? A character that tormented film directors such as Eisenstein or Orson Welles? Or simply a “Maker of Wars” that after the catastrophe of the Great War, was dubbed “The Merchant of Death”? Probably some of all that. But Basil Zaharoff, represents mainly an economical system that thinks of war as profitable, a system that linked till today the interests of dominant nations to the interests of arms industries.

Greece - 2005 - 52 mn - DV Cam - Colour and B&W

Director Angelos Abazoglou Script Angelos Abazoglou Camera Laurent Fénart, Patrick Thierry Sound Joanna Napieralska, Dinos Kittou Editing Fanny Ziozia, Emmanuelle Thibaud

Production Cyclope Productions, 9, rue Evzonon, 11521 Athènes, Grèce Tél : +30 210 7258127 Fax : +30 210 7249871 E-mail : cyclope@acci.gr Co-Production ZDF, ERT - ET1, Centre du Cinéma Grec

Sales Cyclope Productions, 9, rue Evzonon, 11521 Athènes, Grèce Tél : +30 210 7258127 Fax : +30 210 7249871 E-mail : cyclope@acci.gr