Exodos 1826

Such a brilliant film for its very low budget! Exodos 1826 is a emotional film that shows how brave the men back then were, not only they marched to help their compatriots with risk of being spotted and killed on their way from the Turkish/albanian troops, but also they knew that the Battle of Mesolongi was very difficult and of doubtful outcome!

Worthy sons of their Hellenic name and origin!

Bravo, we need more films like those

Four years of research, study and work ... two different cities (Giannitsa and Thessaloniki) and a lot of love for Greek history needed to shoot the new film about the revolution of 1821. After 46 years from "Papaflessas" while we are approaching 200 years since the palligennesia our nation.

The film "Exodus 1826" describes the story of 120 men from Samarina, Grevena and the surrounding villages, who rushed to help in the Mesolongi Exit in April 1826.

It is an independent production. The direction and the script are by Vasilis Tsikaras

It all started about 4 years ago when the director, Vasilis Tsikiras, reading about the revolution of 1821, was particularly moved by the story of ... the children of Samarina, and he wanted to understand the verse of the folk song "Children of Samarina".

Α tasteless, badly made movie, without direction, script and performances. A total..."disaster" or just another failed pseudo historical movie that wished to be "epic"...A waste of time and resources, even if those were obviously restricted and insufficient. Probably, the worst movie of this category made in recent years, it can be paralleled with the equally ridiculous "Fetih 1453" of 2012.

The good : B. Tsikaras makes a movie with no budget and resources but he organizes a team of many people successfully and I respect that. Also the direction of photography is amazing, D. stampolis delivered a visually interesting story. The bad : everything else. The script, acting, directing, action.

The Greek Independence War against the Ottoman Turkish Empire, is an AMAZING & IMPORTANT historical event that VERY FEW films hove covered - one or two Hollywood films and a couple dozen "Kitsch" Greek movies...

This is the 1st film of this group/production.

Their 2nd is "Siege" (2019). I wrote a large review for that 2nd film, go ahead and read it - its EXACTLY the same like this here, a GOOD effort with an average result.