Greek & Armenian Genocide Movies and Documentaries
Movies, Series and Documentaries about #Greek and #Armenian #Genocide in Smyrna, #Constantinople, Asia Minor, Pontos, Armenia, Cyprus by #Turkish state.
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- DirectorGrigoris KarantinakisStarsMimi DenissiLeonidas KakourisBurak HakkiMembers of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.
- DirectorAram ShahbazyanIn the upheaval of the Armenian genocide, five European missionary women bring salvation and consolation to thousands of Armenian orphans.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsAntigoni AmanitouZaharias RohasNikos KapiosThe consequences of the Destruction of Smyrna and the Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey, as seen through the eyes of three characters who were dragged to the arid plains of Anatolia only to succumb to hunger, thirst, and the winner's knife.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsClaudia CardinaleOmar SharifNathalie RousselThe saga of an Armenian family that immigrated to France after the break-up of the oppressive Ottoman Empire.
- DirectorMaria IlioúStarsEleni BasteaAlexandros KitroevGiles MiltonAn examination of the destruction of cosmopolitan city Smyrna in 1922.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsDamian LewisVictoria HaralabidouAndréa FerréolSet in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsTahar RahimSimon AbkarianMakram KhouryIn 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
- DirectorGeorge KordellasStarsTasos NousiasLida ProtopsaltiEvgenia DimitropoulouDuring the volatile 1987 Aegean crisis, a collector sets out to the memory-laden coast of Asia Minor and unearths a haunting mystery dating back to the Great Fire of Smyrna. Can a blood sacrifice appease decades of pain and suffering?
- DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsOscar IsaacCharlotte Le BonChristian BaleSet during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
- DirectorJoe BerlingerStarsShohreh AghdashlooTaner AkçamHagop AsadourianFilmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening.
- DirectorTryfonas ZisisStarsOlga Karapanagiotidou TsaousidouAnna KyriakidouOlga Tsartsabalidou GiapoutzisThis is the story of a Woman refugee from the Pontian Genocide. She describes what she have suffered trying to survive from killings and torture.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsPaz VegaMoritz BleibtreuAlessandro PreziosiA stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I and a forbidden passion that may be the family's only hope.
- DirectorYorgos Demir
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsCharles AznavourBrent CarverEric BogosianInterrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
- DirectorLeonidas Perdetzis
- DirectorPeter LambrinatosStarsBill KurtisThe documentary chronicles the genocide of the Greeks, and other indigenous Christians, at the hands of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks. Nearly a million Greeks were killed, while millions more were uprooted from their ancestral homelands in Asia Minor "Turkey", Pontos, and Eastern Thrace as part of the Turks' campaign of ethnic cleansing of its Christian populations. The Genocide also annihilated the Armenian and Assyrian Christians. This tragic event, the first Genocide of the 20th century, has been kept silent for 100 years. The voices of those martyred will no longer be silent. This documentary has been in the making for the last 8 years. It has been a laborious journey and a major project of the Asia Minor and Pontos Research Center.
- DirectorHenrik MalyanStarsSos SargsyanSofik SarkisyanFrunzik MkrtchyanThis story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the Armenian Genocide in 1915, is an eternal story of resurrection.
- DirectorTomris GiritliogluStarsMurat YildirimBeren SaatOkan Yalabik"When a nationalistic wealthy landowner's idealist son falls for a non-muslim prostitute, he finds himself in a conflict between his feelings and politics under the shadow of the " Events of September 6th-7th in 1955.
- DirectorTassos BoulmetisStarsGeorges CorrafaceIeroklis MichaelidisRenia LouizidouA Greek boy grows up to become a talented cook after political turmoil forces his family to leave Turkey.
- DirectorDieter Sauter
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsMichael CacoyannisRauf DenktasGlafkos KleridesAn indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.
- DirectorLaurence JourdanThis is the story of the first genocide of the 20th century; when the Young Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire systematically exterminated 1.5 million Armenians during World War One.
- DirectorCarla GarapedianStarsTaner AkçamHrant DinkJohn DolmayanInternationally known director Carla Garapedian follows the rock band System of a Down as they tour Europe and the US pointing out the horrors of modern genocide that began in Armenia in 1915 up though Darfur today.
- DirectorCostas FerrisStarsSotiria LeonardouNikos KalogeropoulosMichalis ManiatisThe story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
- DirectorChrysovalantis StamelosStarsMaria EkmektsioglouMubeccel ErhanGlykeriaIn 2010, Chrysovalantis Stamelos moved to Turkey. His family and friends thought he was crazy. His response - "maybe I was." But he could not shake the stories he had heard growing up of old Smyrna and Asia Minor. "Hello Anatolia" (Crescent Street Films) tells the story of a young Greek American film- maker who embarks on the journey of his life to Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey to trace the foot- steps of his great grandparents in their native land. In his effort to strengthen his own connection to his cultural heritage, he becomes a bridge builder of two cultures - and two peoples - who share a lot more than they have that divides them.
- StarsIoannis PapazisisAnastasia PantousiArgyris PandazarasA shocking love story. A har thousands of Greeks.
- StarsYorgos KaramihosFilareti KomninouDimitra MatsoukaThis is a Greek series which got aired on Alpha channel, and is about a guy called Manolis Axiotis who lives on the coast of Mikrasia in the beginning of the 20th century. In general the whole plot revolves around the Greek/Turkish war, or else the Asia Minor Catastrophe between 1918-22. The book which inspired this series is called "Bloody Grounds" (gr: Matomena Homata), and was written by Dido Sotiriou.
- StarsMaria TzobanakiAngelos AntonopoulosYoulika SkafidaThe series describes the life just before the Greek occupation in Anatolia, and the life up to the destruction of Smirna. At the second season is being described the displacement in Greece. The story is centered around the family of Greek banker of Salihli, Sarris Anastasiadis.
- StarsMaria KavoyianniDespina MirouThanos ChronisKatina a smart Smirnia, lives in slums. Atarti introduces her to magic. Erotic filters prove to be infallible. She marries four men, one better than the other. Her spells were found in a dusty trunk, 100 years later at her home in Egina.
- DirectorJohn LubbockStarsYusuf AkbulutIsmail BesikçiSelahattin DemirtasA film about the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the work of historian Ara Sarafian to create reconciliation among Armenians, Kurds, and Turks, despite the official denialism of the Turkish state.