Maria Iliou documents the ethnic cleansing and violent expulsion of Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. In the first compulsory "exchange of populations" in the modern world, 1.2 million Greek Orthodox and 400,000 Muslims were forcibly relocated from Turkey to Greece and Greece to Turkey respectively.
Release Date | September 12, 2013 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | Από τις Δύο Πλευρές του Αιγαίου: Διωγμός και Ανταλλαγή Πληθυσμών, Τουρκία-Ελλάδα 1922-1924 | |
Runtime | 1h 27min | |
Budget | — | |
Revenue | — | |
Language | English, Greek, Turkish | |
Original Language | Greek | |
Production Countries | Greece, United States of America | |
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