Editing Mikis Theodorakis (section)

== During the dictatorship ==
[[File:Griekse componinst Mikis Theodorakis in Nederland, Theodorakis in televisiestudi, Bestanddeelnr 925-3321.jpg|thumb|left|upright|alt=Photo of Mikis Theodorakis|Mikis Theodorakis in 1972]]
On 21 April 1967 the [[Regime of the Colonels]] [[History of Modern Greece#Postwar Greece|took power in a putsch]]. Theodorakis was a symbol of resistance to the military regime. He went into hiding, issued the first call for resistance against the dictatorship on 23 April. and founded the {{ill|Pan-Hellenic Anti-Dictatorship Front|el|Πανελλήνιο Αντιδικτατορικό Μέτωπο}} (PAM).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Trousas|first=Fondas|title=Ο Μίκης Θεοδωράκης τις ημέρες του Πολυτεχνείου: το παράδοξο της απαγόρευσης των τραγουδιών, αλλά όχι του βιβλίου του|url=https://www.lifo.gr/arxeio/o-mikis-theodorakis-tis-imeres-toy-polytehneioy-paradoxo-tis-apagoreysis-ton-tragoydion-alla|date=16 November 2018|website=[[Lifo (magazine)|Lifo]]|language=el}}</ref> On 1 June, the Colonels published "Army decree No 13", which banned playing, and even listening to his music. Theodorakis was arrested on 21 August,<ref>Mikis Theodorakis: Journal of Resistance, p. 71 sq</ref> and jailed for five months. He was released at the end of January 1968, and then deported in August to [[Zatouna]] with his wife, Myrto, and their two children, Margarita and {{ill|Yorgos Theodorakis|lt=George|de|George Theodorakis}}.<ref>Mikis Theodorakis, op. cit., p. 169 sq</ref> Later he was interned in the [[concentration camp]] of [[Oropos]].<ref>Mikis Theodorakis, op. cit., p. 263 sq</ref>

An international solidarity movement, headed by such personalities as [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Arthur Miller]], and [[Harry Belafonte]] demanded to get Theodorakis freed. On request of the French politician [[Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber]], Theodorakis was allowed to go into exile to Paris on 13 April 1970. Theodorakis' flight left secretly from an [[Aristotle Onassis|Onassis]]-owned private airport outside Athens. He arrived at [[Le Bourget Airport]] where he met [[Costa Gavras]], [[Melina Mercouri]] and [[Jules Dassin]]. Theodorakis was immediately hospitalized with [[tuberculosis]].<ref>Mikis Theodorakis, op. cit, p. 280sq</ref> His wife and children joined him a week later in France, having travelled from Greece via Italy on a boat.<ref>The story of this rescue in French, cf. Guy Wagner: Mikis Theodorakis. Une vie pour la Grèce, p. 387 sq.; in German, cf. Guy Wagner: Mikis Theodorakis. Ein Leben für Griechenland, p. 420 sq</ref>

He would compose, alongside [[Herbert Pagani|Pagani]], the anthem of the [[Socialist Party (France)|French Socialist Party]], in 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ina.fr|first=Institut National de l'Audiovisuel-|title=1977 : Mikis Theodorakis présente l'hymne du PS, "Changer la vie" – Archives vidéo et radio Ina.fr|url=http://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1977-mikis-theodorakis-presente-l-hymne-du-ps-changer-la-vie/|access-date=4 September 2021|website=Ina.fr|language=fr-FR|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903211548/https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1977-mikis-theodorakis-presente-l-hymne-du-ps-changer-la-vie/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gaffney|first=J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NRzuCwAAQBAJ&q=Mikis+Theodorakis+changer+la+vie&pg=PA225|title=Political Leadership in France: From Charles de Gaulle to Nicolas Sarkozy|date=9 April 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27478-5|language=en}}</ref>{{Clear}}