Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City

What was Smyrna like in the early 20th century? How did the Greeks live alongside the other communities? Why was this cosmopolitan port of the Mediterranean so unique that even today, one hundred years after its destruction, it remains connected in our memory with the joy of life for the good years and with the mourning of the catastrophe that befell it suddenly in September 1922? Using unknown photographic archives and film footage, director Maria Iliou, historical consultant Alexander Kitroeff and their collaborators unravel a fascinating story.