We are pleased to present a 35mm print of this classic adaptation of a Nikos Kazantzakis novel, Christ Recrucified, shot on location in Crete by the American expatriate director Jules Dassin, who was hounded out of Hollywood by HUAC. "In 1921, a Greek village in Asia Minor, peacefully occupied by the Turks, is invaded by a ragged and starving band of refugees who have fought for the Greek cause and seen their own village destroyed. The priest and local officials reject them (but) the cast of the village Passion Play...defy authority and live out their roles in helping the strangers. (He Who Must Die) is concerned with faith, with the necessity for violence, with conflicting ideas of Christian duty. Saints are men who exceptionally meet exceptional demands; resistance to tyrants is obedience to God; in each generation Christ must die again upon the barricades; these are some of the issues raised by the film (which is) so obviously an allegory within an allegory." (Penelope Houston, Sight and Sound '57)