- Actors: Sotiria Leonardou, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis, Themis Bazaka, Nikos Dimitratos
- Directors: Costas Ferris
- Writers: Sotiria Leonardou, Costas Ferris
- Producers: Costas Ferris, George Zervoulakos
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language Greek
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: NR (Not Rated) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Facets
- DVD Release Date: 26 Jan 2010
- Run Time: 110 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000TGKW5I
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 75,704 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Rembetiko tells the tragic story of urban greek blues (Rembetiko music) singer Marika Ninou born in Smyrna, who was one of the few million Greeks forced to leave their homes in Asia Minor.
This very powerful and dramatic film (which is certainly not a pop-corn movie) is a great chronicle about the 1917 - 1956 era in Greece, and particularly focuses on the oppressed subculture lifestyle in a dark world where reality was filled with poverty and violence.
Marika was a singers in a Rembetiko group that performed in the then dope smoking music tavernas of Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki. The music itself which is influenced by Balkan and Middle east music, (unfortunately) disappeared along with the closure of such music bars and as far as I know, there are no existing original recordings. The music was all remade in the 80s. Note that if you are interested in such music and you are ever in Athens, there are several Rembetiko music tavernas in the area of Plaka which you should not miss (of course there is no dope smoking!).
I do not own the DVD because it's unfortunately currently only available on Region 1 (USA), but I certainly hope it will be released in an format for us living in Europe.
Saying this, I don't know if there are subtitles accompanying the music (for those who don't understand Greek), but if there aren't, then half the meaning of the movie is certainly lost, because the movie speaks through visuals and singing (the actual characters do not speak much).
This very powerful and dramatic film (which is certainly not a pop-corn movie) is a great chronicle about the 1917 - 1956 era in Greece, and particularly focuses on the oppressed subculture lifestyle in a dark world where reality was filled with poverty and violence.
Marika was a singers in a Rembetiko group that performed in the then dope smoking music tavernas of Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki. The music itself which is influenced by Balkan and Middle east music, (unfortunately) disappeared along with the closure of such music bars and as far as I know, there are no existing original recordings. The music was all remade in the 80s. Note that if you are interested in such music and you are ever in Athens, there are several Rembetiko music tavernas in the area of Plaka which you should not miss (of course there is no dope smoking!).
I do not own the DVD because it's unfortunately currently only available on Region 1 (USA), but I certainly hope it will be released in an format for us living in Europe.
Saying this, I don't know if there are subtitles accompanying the music (for those who don't understand Greek), but if there aren't, then half the meaning of the movie is certainly lost, because the movie speaks through visuals and singing (the actual characters do not speak much).
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a long film but it really succeeds in telling of the origin of rembetiko. The environments in which rembetiko arose are faithfully reproduced. The music too is authentic, i.e., truly as rembetiko used to sound before it became appreciated by others.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An underrated movie. Although the production could had done better, I believe it is one of the greatest Greek movies ever...
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