A New Film    the late ’40s and early ’50s quite a few young
Greek leftists had to flee their  country to avoid at best
torture and long prison terms and at worst execution in  the
hands of the US appointed local puppet Greek Government.   of
them fled to Paris; in a traditionally tolerant society towards
political  refugees. Of them, three, Cornelius Castoriadis,
Yiannis Xenakis and Costas  Gavras, not only survived in an
unfamiliar social environment, but they became  internationally
famous in their chosen fields.  Castoriadis "used" his leftist
background to become kind of a French philosopher  who opposed
(!) the left through an incomprehensible "philosophical" system
of  the "fantasiako" (the "imaginary"), etc. Castoriadis thrived
in the rather silly  French cultural environment that produced
the post-modern type of funny  "philosophical" texts.  Yiannis
Xenakis as a young student in the Athens Polytechnic took part
in the  Resistance against the Nazis and then their British
successors. In December  1944