• Wednesday, February 21, 2024 • •
According to Culture Minister Grieg, the film is of “extremely poor quality.”
Greece's culture minister has slammed Netflix's documentary drama “Alexander the Great” as “a very bad narrative full of historical inaccuracies,” reports say. Mandarin.
Lina Mendoni's comments came in relation to the movie God's Creation, because
In the series, a romantic relationship was depicted between producer Sandor Nagy and his best friend Hephaestion.
An opinion article in the Greek newspaper Eleftheros Typoss called the series a “distortion of the truth” and blamed Oliver Stone's 2004 film Alexander for “launching a propaganda campaign about Alexander's homosexuality.”
Dimitris Natsiou, head of the Orthodox Christian Nikkei party, called the series “unfortunate, unacceptable and ahistorical” and said it “aims to convey the idea that homosexuality was acceptable in ancient times, which has no basis at all.”
Regarding the depiction of Alexander and Hephaestion's relationship, Mendoni said:
It is not mentioned in the sources that this friendship exceeds the limits of friendship defined by Aristotle.
When Nazio asked if the government would take action against Netflix, Mendoni said such a move would be unconstitutional. The Greek Constitution has protected freedom of art since the beginning of the nineteenth century.
“The Ministry of Culture does not exercise censorship, does not take criminal proceedings or measures leading to prohibition, and does not manipulate, limit or control the dissemination of information and ideas in a preventive or repressive manner.”
Mendoni said.
Opening image: Dilara Erem Sancar
Source: mandiner.hu
