MONDAY  19/05/2025
16:00 (UTC) [K12]
Letter from Pontos -Tribute: Remembrance Day for the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus   (R)   
Documentary / History


Year of production: (2019)




A documentary tribute to the Pontian Genocide. The members of the Anastasiadis family leave their home in the Pontic village of Aintogtou, in 1919, as do all the villagers of the Kavza region, in the province of Amasya. Under the suffocating pressure of the Turkish military corps, they take the long and torturous road of exile. At the time of their uprooting, Giannis Anastasiadis' father had already died a horrible death in the forced labor battalions, but his family did not know it at the time. The mother and her children, Giannis, Isaac, Victoria, and Kerekia, along with other close and distant relatives, would wander for months, hunted to the South, a human herd wandering the land. The girls soon die of typhus in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, the youngest son, Isaac, becomes a shepherd in a Kurdish family, while Giannis is transferred to an orphanage in Lebanon. The Anastasiadis family are scattered like grains of dust. Later, in the mid-1920s, Giannis reunites with his mother through the Hellenic Red Cross, and they initially settle at Sidirokastro, Serres. He will spend almost his entire life trying to locate his younger brother in Turkey and will never stop writing letters to him. Until, 60 years later, a Turkish Wāli delivers one of Giannis’ letters to Isaac. Will the two brothers be able to meet again?


Direction-Screenplay: Thomas Sideris
Research: Leonidas Kasapis, Thomas Sideris
Cinematography: Aristotle Metaxas
Sound: Kostas Adam, Nikos Paliatsoudis
Music: Cengiz Onural
Editing: Nicoleta Sideris, Thomas Sideris, Thodoris Metaxas
Costume Design: Kostas Martin
Wardrobe: DIPEDE Serres
Production: ERT - 2019
Cast: George Karydas (Isaac Anastasiadis), Pavlos Kosmoglou (Yannis Anastasiadis), Anna Theodoridou (Kerekia Anastasiadi), Angeliki Michalieri (refugee woman), and the young Stefanos Kasapis

Available on ERTFLIX.


 
     




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