Roza of Smyrna
– An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural ..
An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural life in Smyrna before World War I. In a trip to Izmir his girlfriend Rita, he finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained with blood and an old photograph that send him on a journey to bridge the past with the present.
22 Dec 2016
Greek, English, Turkish
Kordellas George
Christina Lazaridi (screenplay), Christina Lazaridi, Yannis Yannellis Theodosiadis (based on a book by)
Tasos Nousias, Leda Protopsalti, Evgenia Dimitropoulou, Yilmaz Gruda
The enigmatic old woman Rosa from Izmir and the powerful Ismael live for decades with the weight of a well-kept secret. An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition in a renowned museum in Athens on Culture of Nationalities who cohabited in Izmir before the genocide. In a trip to Izmir with the curator of the museum and his girlfriend Rita, he accidentally finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained with blood. An old photograph, a wedding dress soiled with blood and a letter, become the reason to retract their story from the past.
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