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SMYRNA

SMYRNI MOU AGAPIMENI

By Gregory KARANTINAKIS

Historical - Completed 2021

Every people has lost a homeland/ Every people has its own “Smyrna”.

The Greek Film Festival in Berlin 2022

Opening Film

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Historical, Drama
- Countries
- GREECE
- Languages
- GREEK, TURKISH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 121 mn
- Director(s)
- Gregory KARANTINAKIS
- Writer(s)
- Mimi DENISSI, Martin SHERMAN
- Cast
- Mimi DENISSI, Leonidas KAKOURIS, Burak HAKKI, Krateros KATSOULIS, Tamilla KOULIEVA, Giannis VOGIATZIS, Katerina GERONIKOLOU, Jane LAPOTAIRE, Susan HAMPSHIRE, Rupert GRAVES, Dina MICHAILIDOU, Anastasia PANTOUSI, Özdemir ÇIFTÇIOGLU, Nedie ANTONIADES, Giannis EGGLEZOS, Efi GOUSI, Nathan THOMAS, Christos STERGIOGLOU, Thodoros KATSAFADOS, Daniel CROSSLEY, Duncan SKINNER, Daphne ALEXANDER, Michalis MITROUSIS, Natalia DRAGOUMI, Manolis GERAPETRITIS, Andreas NATSIOS, Ian ROBERTSON, Joanna KALAFATIS, Fotina PAPATHEODOROU
- Producer(s)
- Dionyssis SAMIOTIS (TANWEER PRODUCTIONS)
- Synopsis
- Filio Williams, an elderly Greek-American, rushes to Mytilene with her granddaughter Helen to support the Syrian refugees. No one knows her origin, no one knows that her Smyrna grandmother Filio Baltatzi, once found herself on the same island as a persecuted refugee. The notebook with the recipes of the namesake grandmother unfolds the turbulent history of the cosmopolitan Baltatzi family, as shaped by the tragic international developments that determined the fate of entire nations. Different generations of women of the same family are united in space and time, through the threads of history. Present and past become one.