SMYRNA: THE DESTRUCTION OF A COSMOPOLITAN CITY, 1900-1922

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SMYRNA: THE DESTRUCTION OF A COSMOPOLITAN CITY, 1900-1922

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"SMYRNA"
The documentary film, "Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City, 1900-1922" opened this past January in Athens at the Benaki Museum -- one of the most prominent institutions in Greece. "Smyrna" played every day for more than two months, with 3-4 screenings per day, to great acclaim from the critics and the general public. Long lines stretched in front of the Museum. The screenings were so successful that the Museum, for the first time in its history, remained open during evenings. The critics spoke about an exceptional and profoundly moving documentary.
Film Director Maria Iliou and historical consultant Alexander Kitroeff, bring to life the rich story of the city that was tragically lost in 1922.
Rare film footage and photographs of the historic Anatolian city (today's Izmir) sourced from European and US institutions and private collections are pieced together.
First, second and third generation 'Smyrniotes' of Greek, Armenian and Turkish ancestry recount family stories, while American and European historians present the big picture.
It is a documentary that brings a new perspective to Smyrna, namely the notion of a cultural-wealthy city that lives on in some ways in the large cosmopolitan cities of today.
"Smyrna" will start playing in the commercial cinemas in Greece the 13th of September 2012.
ATHENS:
-Cinema Elli
-Greek Film Archive Film Museum (Lais Cinema)
-Benaki Museum (Piraios Street)
THESSALONIKI
-Olympion Cinema
-Museum of Cinema
-Macedonian Musem of Contemporary Art
The film was produced by PROTEUS.
PROTEUS is an organization dedicated to the mission of preserving visual and audio archival materials related to Hellenic history around the world in cooperation with other cultural and educational institutions, producing films, exhibitions and publications that make these "lost memories" available to the public.

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@konstantinosapostolatos3875 10 жыл бұрын

You are right in many ways Ali Uzay. The history of the Balkans is extremely complex and all ethnicities have rightful claims as to what they consider their land, their history and cultural heritage. But we must all condemn any form of ethnic cleansing and mindless acts of revenge on unarmed civilian populations. There is no question that what happened in Smyrna in August/September 1922 can never be justified.

@BohemianConspiracy 8 жыл бұрын

+Konstantinos Apostolatos It is usual job for the turks... a nation with a foot in a puddle of blood... I totally support the Kurds, they are a courageous & persevering community

@BohemianConspiracy 4 жыл бұрын

@@prasannasridharan3730 Well i 've made this comment 4 years ago... I know/knew for some time that many Kurds supported the Turks in the massacre, they took Armenian lands too, however the planification was made by Turks, many Kurds made the dirty job against some privilege or lands because the Turks had not always the balls to do it, so sometimes they paid other to have blood in their hands while they were looking elesewhere whisteling, rather hypocrite to say the least However i know that many Kurds (and even somtimes Turks) tried to hide/help successfully or not Armenian people or families Not everything is pure black and pure white... i'm conscious of those shades that we should have when we talk about those nightmarish events, nightmares with open eyes... A quite important minority of Kurds (treator ?) support the Turkish power, i know personally one of them named Imam , a friend of my family, but we rarely talk about politics, the subject is too delicate, he is somebody that we can count on when we need help, so we cannot juge people solely on political opinions I know even some Kurds joined Isis as well (some Turks too of course), each western countries has its own sick citizens who joined this failed cause, the situation is more tangled that most people think here in occidental countries

@SassyAprilCats 11 жыл бұрын

BLESS the director & writer, producers, and sponsors of this film for telling a little-known story. My Mother's family was from Smyrna and narrowly escaped the fire by pure luck. They emigrated to America in early 1922. There is also an excellent book on the subject by Marjorie Housepian-Dobkin titled "Smyrna 1922: the Destruction of a City."

@AndyKaknes 3 жыл бұрын

One of the films narrators, Giles Milton, published a book in 2008 titled: Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about this subject.

@spaceshuttletopluton 4 ай бұрын

Die Osmanische Baukunst ist einer der seltenen, wunderschönen, architektonischen Wunderwerke. Mimar Sinan glänzt mit seinen unvergleichlichen Kunstwerken in zahlreichen türkischen Städten. Zum Glück ist ein typisches Beispiel in "Birgi" erhalten geblieben ❤️👍 was die Griechen nicht zerstören konnten 😊!

@djangolee1 10 ай бұрын

In all of Turkey there is not a single town and village that they founded themselves...

@adishservedcold833 5 ай бұрын

😢

@227beau 11 жыл бұрын

So when is the dvd available ? No mention of this, and the Benaki museum which hosts the exhibition does not reply to emails.

@salslade9285 4 жыл бұрын

I've been wondering that too!

@kitabwalli 11 жыл бұрын

Actually, Christians do have a headstart - you need to learn your own history. Denial is neither healthy nor useful.

@kazilen 11 жыл бұрын

If u live in the NYC metro area it'll be showing again April 5-18 In the quad cinema in the west village34 West 13th Street, New York, New York 10011

@hichemzerari3511 3 жыл бұрын

I am not Turk. I am arab of Algeria and i have a question: you didnt ask yourself why turks who accepted greek and armenian presence for six centuries of coexistence would suddenly evacuate them? What was the reasons? And why turks who already won their city back would burn it?!. If you are neutral and reasonable you should know that greeks incited by british and french had massacred turks in greece bulgaria romania and balkans. Armenians incited by russia killed turks. Greeks invaded turkey and arbored greek flag in izmir smyrna. What do you expect turks to do? Offer the greeks soldiers some roses or maybe their wifes?. Another fact: the armenians who knew that they would be expelled from the city burned their houses to avoid turks take benefit of te houses and so the fire spread to greek and turkish sections due to wind. Remember that before navarin battle 1827 more than half of greece population was muslim. Muslims were slaughtered brutally and mosques burned or made churches. The west approved the extermination of muslim saying greece took back their land. Ok same logic: turks took back their city from greek army. But with one diffrence : turks didnt kill armenians and greeks like the christians did to muslims. Turks simply evacuated them because they betrayed turkish nation and substituted turkish flag by greek flag. And please dont lie. Christians burned their houses preferring not to leave them for the turk. Turk army didnt need to burn their prestigious and admirable city because they already won as the greek fron collapsed. When turk soldiers entered izmir they found their city devastated by the christian-set fire.

@peterkocoris7873 2 жыл бұрын

your response here is not correct. the Greek genocide of the Greeks and the Armenians started a decade before Smyrna was torched. Tell the whole story. Don't be an apologist for The Genocide(s) by the Turks be you Arab, Christian or Jew. Do you pretend to be as rational when it comes to issues of Israel's right to exist as a nation state in what was Palestine (a Roman misnomer)?

@o6ina 2 жыл бұрын

@@peterkocoris7873 He posts this same comment on every video about Smyrna on the platform. Part of the Erdogan's campaign to belittle and justify the Turkish atrocities against their ethnic neighbours in the invaded lands. There are numerous well paid Western academics pilling papers and articles about Turkish generousity and infidels' ungratefulness. Turkish students wholeheartedly believe slaves and victims of devshirme where only benificial of these practices, and expect to enter EU with this mindset.

@trak83eros60 2 жыл бұрын

@@peterkocoris7873 greek genocide?? infact there was a TURKİSH MUSLİM GENOCİDE İN BALKANS AND ANATOLİA.

@eroseros47 Жыл бұрын

typical greek propaganda. 2 million turks and muslims killed by greeks. Greeks genocided in crete balkans and anatolia. they still try to cover their crimes

@helioslegigantosaure6939 Жыл бұрын

French was first

@nezircaglar2381 5 жыл бұрын

thessaloniki was a cosmopolitan city too.. where did the jews and muslims of thessaloniki go after balkan wars?

@pyrrhocorax 5 жыл бұрын

Many of the Muslims of Thessaloniki abandoned it and moved to what today is Turkey. The ones that didn't leave were forced to move to Turkey with the Treaty of Lausanne and the population exchange. The Jews of Thessaloniki prospered after the Balkan Wars and were treated well by the Greek state. The majority of the Jewish population of Thessaloniki died by the Nazis when Greece was occupied in WW2. The ones that survived, started to immigrate to the State of Israel. That's what happened to the Jews and Muslims of Thessaloniki.

@aliuzaypeker3481 2 жыл бұрын

@@pyrrhocorax OK! OK! We now understand that Greeks are angels! 🙃

@user-ft1tn2rx9t Жыл бұрын

In Allah hands ahahahah. Why did you invade byzantine empire? There would be a time when people would rebel against to take their lands back. They gave a lot to Turkey according to what it really deserves. I would make it Malta.

@hsynjawoez6818 5 жыл бұрын

madem halk boyle gıyınıyordu neden kılık kıyafet devrımı yapılmıs baya modernmıs hatta sımdıkınden modern .we did ın turkey a fashıon revalutıon ın 2 september 1925 ıam realy cruıos ıs there any country ın the world that made also a fashıon revalutıon

@bakrdemir8656 Жыл бұрын

bak kardesim sen tam bir gerizekalisin osmanli da gayrimuslimler boyle modern batili giyniyordu TURK kadinlari kara carsaf giyiyordu ATATURK turk kadininin hem sosyal hayat hem medeni olarak one cikardi git ogren

@merteris4537 9 ай бұрын

onların çoğu levanten zaten. türklerin çoğu kırsaldaydı o dönem

@aliuzaypeker3481 10 жыл бұрын

You need to understand why Muslims fought for independence shortly before Sept. 1922 in order to understand why cosmopolitan Smyrna became a city of one religion like Thessaloniki. Christians alike fought for independence and turned Greece a Christian land. In similar Muslims fought for independence and turned Turkey an Islamic land. If you regard one bad the other good, this means that you are chauvinistic. Be conscientious and make the world a peaceful planet.

@Ermotimos1 10 жыл бұрын

My brother u are right. But the way it happened was a massive genocide that started years before, Personally i totaly disagree with the separation that happened from both sides. And of course for me we should have never been separated.

@Ermotimos1 9 жыл бұрын

Me too..

@BohemianConspiracy 8 жыл бұрын

+Υδροχόος Live together ? They should first start to do it properly in Chypre... WHat the fuck the turks are doin' in this island ? Many turks were also guilty of massacre in Smyrna... a local tradition obviously

@thesoundinyourhead1782 2 жыл бұрын

You try to twist the reality as you always do. The genocide and destruction of Smyrna happened before 1922 when treaty of luasanne was signed. Nothing happened to the Muslims who were living in Greece, it was you who genocided the Greeks living in what today is turkey.

@aliuzaypeker3481 2 жыл бұрын

@@thesoundinyourhead1782 You slaughtered not only Turks but also Jews: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tripolitsa

@meldurali 10 жыл бұрын

What were the Greek army doing in Afyon? Unfortunately Greeks started invading Turkey and the consequences were bad for all....

@azmhyr 6 жыл бұрын

Rocker01ndomablE They were doing a poor job, I'd say. The allies didn't abandon them for nothing.

@emrekaratas7937 5 жыл бұрын

@Rocker01ndomablE Then pay the price foolish

@StratosIceman 4 жыл бұрын

@@emrekaratas7937 If not anything turkey desrves to be destroyed.

@eroseros47 Жыл бұрын

greeks genocided turks at that time.

@user-ft1tn2rx9t Жыл бұрын

@@eroseros47 Nobody cared about that in western civilized world. It was Greece taken back its lands.

@ahmtt3 6 жыл бұрын

YASA MUSTAFA KEMAL PASA YASAAA ADİN YAZİLACAK MUCEHVER TASAAÂAA

@TopSaint 2 жыл бұрын

Είμαι ο Νά-,ο ναύτης του Αιγαίου κρεβάτι έχω τα βαθιά νερά, 🌊 και για την έν-,την ένδοξη πατρίδα είμαι όλος φλόγα και καρδιά. ❤ Με την ανδρεί-,ανδρεία του Μιαούλη και με του Βό-,του Βότση την ψυχή. 💪

@bakrdemir8656 Жыл бұрын

ATAM ATATURK olmasa simdi turkler orta asyada siginti olurdu

@tanya85ist 10 жыл бұрын

So many of these ignorant converstaions seem to repeat themselves: People calling other religions intolerat and violent is not intolerant at all? I personally disliked the film as it was ahistorical and lacked any understanding of the grander narrative before 1900, and which of course goes beyond 1922. Izmir remained a cosmopolitan city for decades. 5-6 September took place under the Republic...

@pennysmirlis5989 6 жыл бұрын

Izmir= Σμύρνη. Νationalist turks may not be cosmopolitan.They can not be fair . They came from Mongolia and they deny their heritage. Glad I am not them!

@helioslegigantosaure6939 Жыл бұрын

Not like before

@user-ft1tn2rx9t Жыл бұрын

@@pennysmirlis5989 They know where they came from...they are not all west Asians, they mixed their race with genisaries. The genisaries had christian blood and never liked any Sultan. I really believe their secret intention was to destroy the ottoman empire.