Roza of Smyrna

I loved this story! I have seen it twice, and it's a jewel! The acting is superb, the photography is wonderful, the music is outstanding, and the plot and suspense kept me on my seat. History unfolds in this captivating movie as does the mystery of a woman's stained wedding dress from the time of 1922 Smyrna.

Dimitris is busy preparing for an exhibition in Athens with his girlfriend, Rita. During a trip to Izmar, he finds a wedding dress, stained with blood, and a letter inside addressed to the wedding dress owner, Roza. The dress is antique, during the time of the 1922 event of the Fire in Smyrna. He buys it and plans to use it at the exhibition. Like a detective story, he slowly unearths the truth behind the wedding dress, showing us glimpses of the history behind it and the people and customs of those times. In his search for Roza, he also meets Marianna, a sweet beautiful artist. Their love story is a highlight of the movie. The end is quite revealing and somewhat sad, but I still enjoyed everything about this story!

If you are a lover of exotic romance stories and mysteries, this is a movie for you! I also liked the message it gave - it not only captures a time period in history, but moves beyond it and suggests a better approach to humanity - to love one another, no matter the country you're born in or your religion, and no matter the past.

In general a moderate film. It has historical and humanitarian interest, and it is a beautiful story. Unfortunately, the dialog was very very very bad. It was meretricious, unnatural and did not add almost anything to the movie. I struggled in the first half of the movie, but thank God it got better, at least in terms of dialog. It was full of proverbs and sayings. I guess it is worth seeing if you are a middle aged lady that likes the usual drama.

PS: I was enchanted by the Turkish nurse at the end of the movie

People may hear a lot historical stories and have a point of view from a certain angle. But hearing the same stories from the other side may change that point of view. As the main idea of the movie, when you start to understand the 'others', you will start looking from a wider angle and having a big mind. Fanaticism does not help anything but only losing friends and lovers. A Greek person can be a good person as a Turkish person can. It is that simple. Life does not worth fighting.

Eventually, what this movie leaves behind is an unfinished love story which was not allowed by the parents of a young couple who believes a Greek can not marry to a Turkish.

I liked it.

It has very strong script/story, the direction is nice, photography is good & nice music too.

Yes, it lacks (a bit) in the dialogues, but not so much as some wrote. Generally, is very good film. It has a lot emotion, drama, its keeping you to the last minute - especially with the nice idea to having the old woman (Roza) keeping a secret in her entire life (and you want to unlock her secret, you want to find it out).

I recommending it.

The Rosa of Smyrni was one of the most well filmed movies out there. It shows clearly the tragedy of the turkey invasion is Smyrni and how the life of so many people changed forever. Also it shows one century later Greeks and Turks can find common things and stop this hostility between them. The plot was interesting. Besides some parts was boring but the end was fascinating. Moreover the cast was significant and of course the grandmother Rosa was magical.