Movie: Lying Upon a Rock

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    A documentary about Lazaretto, the desert islet near the city of Corfu that functioned for centuries as a quarantine station as well as a place of execution for political prisoners during the Greek Civil War.

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    2020-02-13

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    10

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    ελληνικά

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