Scene from the shooting of the film “The Killers” (1956) by Andrei Tarkovsky, Maria Beikou and Aleksandr Gordon

The Greek resistance fighter and artist Maria Ferla Beikou (1925-2011) participated in the Greek Civil War in the armed section of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE). After the end of the civil war, and the defeat of the DSE, Greek fighters became political refugees in Eastern European countries. Beikou, while a political refugee in the USSR, studied directing at the Moscow Film Institute where she was a classmate of Andrei Tarkovsky. Together they made a short film called “The Killers”. Photo from the shooting (ASKI Library, photo insert of Beiko’s book “Since you asked me, I will remember”, Athens 2010)