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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Antigoni Amanitou | ... | Loukia | |
Zaharias Rohas | ... | Ilias | |
Nikos Kapios | |||
Vasilis Kolovos | |||
Olga Tournaki | |||
Betty Valassi | |||
Eleonora Stathopoulou | ... | Antigoni | |
Vasilis Laggos | |||
Yorgos Charalabidis | |||
Vasos Andronidis | |||
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Grigoris Dounis | ||
Vasilis Tsaglos | |||
Mihalis Giannatos | |||
Katerina Gogou | |||
Olia Lazaridou |
Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor. The teacher will be murdered by a Turk, the wife of the merchant will lose her senses, and only the young boy will manage to survive. Written by Greek Film Archive
If anyone knows about Smyrna they know the scale of the genocide and the complexity behind it all. This film is very pseudo-artistic not capturing the essence of the time and sadly its very awkward to watch almsot comical. Turks and French fighting in silence? Close ups of a beautiful woman...nothing really said about anything, just a pretentious film reflecting more the directors' personal taste than a true representation of the events - shame of the title, it gives you nothing. Read Giles Milton Paradise Lost to learn what really happened and hopefully someone make Smyrna the TV series it deserves to be and the heroism of the people involved.