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Your Neighbor's Son: The Making of a Torturer is a documentary or docudrama directed by Jørgen Flindt Pedersen and Erik Stephensen in two versions, 1981 and 1983. The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police (ESA) recruits into torturers during the military junta known as the Regime of the Colonels that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. The film touches on the power of the institution to compel otherwise moral human beings to torture.