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Jul 5, 2022 · The Smyrna people, sure of their safety, continue their lives despite the defeat of the Greeks. The Chetes enter the city and fiercely persecute the Christians. Who will manage to save themselves from the Baltatzi family?
Dec 9, 2023 · Grigoris Karantinakis’s 2021 costume drama, originally released in Greece as Smyrna My Beloved, seems to be aware of uncomfortable historical parallels. It begins in 2015, Titanic -like, with a nonagenarian survivor rescuing something from the deep.
Apr 28, 2023 · Smyrna My Beloved. Credit: Fathom Events. The story. Released one century after the disaster of Smyrna, the critically acclaimed and moving drama about an elderly Greek-American woman brings the event to life.
Jul 14, 2022 · Born in London to a Greek mother and raised in Greece, actor Nathan Thomas plays the character of Eddie Whittall in the movie Smyrna My Beloved (2021), a movie about one of the most horrific tragedies that occurred in recent Greek history – the 1922 burning and destruction of Smyrna (modern-day Izmir).
Filio Baltatzi, an elderly Greek-American woman, goes to the island of Lesvos to help the refugees. She has a secret: almost a century earlier, her family lived on the island when they themselves were refugees, fleeing Smyrna after the destruction of the city.
Dec 23, 2021 · Smyrna celebrates the cosmopolitan character of the city as a thriving hub of Greeks, Turks, Jews, Armenians and Levantines living together harmoniously, and pays tribute to the 100 years since its destruction. The film traces the story of Filio, an American lady visiting Lesbos with her granddaughter.
Apr 14, 2022 · The Hellenic Film Society USA (HFS) is proud to present the New York premiere of Smyrna, My Beloved about the destruction of the cosmopolitan city of Smyrna and its vibrant and prosperous Greek community at the hands of the Turkish Army in 1922.
