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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :- Intense, 25 December 2002 Author: paulmartin200 (paulmartin200@hotmail.com) from San Antonio, Texas
One of the most intense and depressing movies ever made. It rivals "The Deerhunter" in that regard. The growing feeling of hopelessness as the Greek captives embark on their last journey produced cries from the audience toward the end of film.
4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :- 1992 is based on "the number 31328", 20 May 2000 Author: koimisis (tzach@bigfoot.com) from Greece, Larissa
1922 is based on the highly acclaimed book of Ilias Venezis, "The number 31328". The book of course is much more touching and heart-breaking and maybe more complete, nevertheless I think the movie succeeds in passing the general feeling of the Minor Asia disaster with a unique way. The directing is stupendous, so real that you feel like you're standing nearby and watching... The acting and costumes great as well. A warning though: if you have too sensitive a stomach, I'd suggest you watch something else. Not because is a violent film, but because it's so real.
Koundouros' "1922" is an emblematic work on the Christian genocide in Anatolia, 3 May 2008 Author: acaratzas from Scarsdale, NY
"1922" focuses on one episode of the treatment of mostly civilian Greeks captured by the forces of Kemal Ataturk; this is an emblematic event--a characteristic phase-- of the larger process, of the expulsion and genocide of the Christians of Anatolia (present day "Turkey").The film has a painterly quality, not least because Koundouros is an artist and painter. And much like the scene in a painting, the reality this film reflects is that of the methodology used by the Kemalists to defile, humiliate and destroy-- in short to carry out the genocide of-- the Christian people of Anatolia. The murders and rapes depicted, under the scorching sun, were events not hidden, open for the world to see, yet few chose to take note of how 4-4.5 million (yes million, out of a total population of 11-12 million) Christians (Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians) in Anatolia in 1912, were reduced to less than 300,000 by 1923.The denial of this genocide begins with the victims themselves. For years the "Catastrophe", as the Greeks called it, was discussed little, and depicted less. This film was banned from being shown in Greece for many years, for reasons that still bear investigation: it no doubt included the elements of cowardice, denial and the perceived imperative not to offend the perpetrators (sic!) in the guise of the successor Kemalist regimes in Anatolia.Koundouros's "1922" is a profound and a psychologically very jarring work, and the feelings, questions and issues it generates still have not been faced, especially by the ruling elites of Greece itself (many of whom have taken to denial explicitly so as not to disrupt relations with the present Islamofascist "Turkish" regime).
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