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SMYRNA

Director:

  Maria Iliou
  

Year Released:

  2012

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

4.5 out of 5

n/a out of 5

Key Performances:

  Greek Descendants
  Turkish Descendants
  Greek Historians
  Turkish Historians
  International Observers
Movie Haiku:Full Title: "Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City, 1900—1922." In this powerful doc, a bustling metropolis that had been a thriving urban center for over 2 millennia is destroyed in the break-up of the Ottoman Empire after WWI. Filmmaker Iliou labored for years to find images that could show this tragic story unfold. Brava!

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  Yes

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2014