In 2018, their statements in interviews were not against the director. In 2019, the director dies. After that, the actors decide to sue.
Either they had a sudden revelation in their old age or, more probably, their contract terms and the director’s connections were too strong up to 2019.
Also, there is this statement*: “your nudes won’t go public”. Hm.
If smuggling of nude etchings was already a thing during the roman ages, what is the probability of nude camera shots of film stars not taking the profitable route in the '60s? The actors were young, they were impressionable, they had dreams of stardom. Didn’t their parents and/or their agent know better?
Don’t search Brooke Shields and her mother stories.
They are seeking damages “believed to be in excess of $500 million.”
It would have been funny if they paid them in 1968 dollars and gave them 100.000 dollars tops, while the lawyers were paid with current rates 
For those who think that I am being silly, I have to note that members of the local municipality council around 2015 proposed to pay with drachmas (which have not been in circulation since 2002), a dispute they had going since 1992 because “that’s the kind of money it was worth back then”. To noone’s surprise, the dispute is still ongoing 
Someone killed the thread turtles… It was an endangered species 
Maybe I can make amends by posting this link to images of Golden Thread Turtles?
Meanwhile, somewhere on the planet:
If it is out in the public, it is probably a publicity stunt. Such treasures do exist, but ain’t noone mad enough to publish the map. God knows, people have been shot in the mountains for far less money than “millions of euros” 
True story and cautionary tale about treasure hunting
It is a well known story here where a person thought that he had a good idea where a hidden cache might have been. He confided in two friends so that they could dig and search more effectively and off they went into the mountains into the night, like a lot of other people used to do back then, after the war.
They went on a hill, dug around some very suspicious trees, found nothing and headed down to the village. By then in was morning, so they left the tools home and went to the kafene to drink a coffee.
In there, 5 people from a nearby village were sitting around with shotguns and hunting rifles drinking coffee as well.
“Lucky night out, eh lads?” they called out when they saw them.
“Hardly any luck, but how on earth do you know?”
“Oh, don’t say that. We were further up the hill pointing at you with the rifles. Had you found something, then you would have been very unlucky. You get very lucky lads.”
Needless to say they never went treasure hunting again.
To me it looks more like a wild goose chase than a publicity stunt.
More backstory:
A lot of researchers, journalists and amateur archaeologists are really interested and excited,” said Annet Waalkens, an adviser at the National Archives, which last week released more than 1,300 historical documents. Whether any would-be treasure hunter will be able to find the cases is another matter. Among the cache of second world war papers was a 7cm-thick file that recounted the fruitless efforts of the Dutch state to find the looted Nazi treasure after the war.
The nearby municipality warns that it is dangerous to dig in the area because of potential unexploded bombs, grenades and mines from an old WW II frontline nearby. Besides that, it is actually forbidden to use metal detectors in that area.
Ah, that “good old” excuse eh? … I guess some things are the same everywhere you go. 
If you have any friends that want to go after that just for the fun, I’d honestly suggest you tell them to stay home.
The treasure might not be there, but the greed and the danger are always real.
So damn cold. Where is the global warming when you need it the most.
Pic from the internet
Reminds me of the old observation that the moon is better than the sun, because it gives us light at night, when we need it.
There are a number of excellent books about real-life treasure hunters, most notably The Treasure Hunter by Robin Moore (as told to) and Howard Jennings (a professional treasure hunter). Highly recommended.
I don’t believe there is any treasure to be found there and I don’t expect anyone I know is going there.
I pity local residents who are inconvenienced by the mess and holes in their gardens left behind by a hodgepodge of wannabe treasure hunters, dowsers and crackpots.
I am with you on that.
That’s good to know! 
It can potentially be worse. This is a true story, happened in 2013, but there was the local fair in a village nearby (in Greece that usually means the celebration of the village church) and it is a village that makes a lot of local tsipouro and they are very keen on consuming it as well.
As you can imagine they were very rawdy and drunk and that covered the noise of what happened nearby during the night. When they woke up and decided to get the day rolling around midday, one local farmer that had a field on a nearby hill, found a huge gaping hole made by heavy machinery in quite an extensive area. There is actually video of the result:
A surgical strike by real pro treasure hunters, to say the least.
“We’re gonna build a wall.”
Supposedly, the wall will be used to deter smugglers (as per the ministry), but knowing Greek goverments, I’m ready to believe they have erected the cheapest sort of scrapwood panel, they plastered it with advertising about gambling sites and nightlife and they opened a couple of restaurants and cafés in the vicinity for good measure.
With all that money, they could have given a facelift to the roads and city infrastructures close to the border and have less ghost cities in the region. Even the local capitals have an eerie, desolated atmosphere of abandon. I can almost imagine the smugglers being more afraid of hearing ghosts howling from the empty storefronts than troubled by a mere wall.
Quite a lot of Greeks believe this wall should also be efficient for defending the border against a foreign army. I think this idea is way too ambitious and unlikely and quite outdated, with today’s tech and armaments. I’m not a professional, though and I might be mistaken.
The minister is not a professional either, so your guess is as good as his 
https://www.mod.mil.gr/en/minister-national-defence/
He is specialised in agriculture, economics and law. His military service was even at the airforce and we all know what that means in Greece: MEGA-VISMA (For the non-Greeks: “Visma” means socket - it is slang for someone being very well connected) doing nothing and being 1 day in camp and 29 days out
One could wonder why he is not minister of agriculture then … weeeeeeeell, for the same reason why our minister of Employment, has never ever held an actual job and been employed in his life.
That’s very old school. The new “fashion” is to put the correct stuff in, but just over-charge for them. Who is checking anyway? Due to the insanity of the voters, the same party controls municipalies, prefectures and the government, so there is no oversight
Here is an example.
This:
Will cost 400 euros EACH and we are buying 1470 of them:
Ergo we will spend 588.000 euro on them.
Enjoy the show next time you see politicians on the news talking about us having to be careful with our money and be “fiscally responsible”