My People

The story of the Greek Jews during the Holocaust, the Axis occupation, the resistance, the role of the Christian clergy; a hymn to love and courage as it is discovered by a young woman in her quest to uncover her Greek Jewish family’s history.

The documentary extensively focuses and highlights two significant parts of Greek history: the heroic Greek resistance movement and the role of the Greek Orthodox Church, its clergy and Greek Christian civilians across the country to defeat the Nazis and to save lives.

Q&A with Annette B. Fromm Ph.D.
Followed by an afternoon tea party and dessert catered Eviva Greek Market and Bakery.

Written & Directed: Anna Rezan
Producers: Anna Rezan, Zafeiris Haitides and Academy Award winners Mitchell Block and Kim Magnusson

About Anna Rezan:
Known from the “The Good Wife” or the pages of Vogue magazine. Anna began her career in her early teens by appearing in Greek films and television series, most notably Farewell Anatolia and starring in the 2010 comedy film ShowBitch that premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Her first international feature film role was in La Commedia di Amos Poe, a new translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy by Amos Poe starring Roberto Benigni that premiered in the 2010 Venice Film Festival.
She made her catwalk debut as a high fashion model in New York Fashion Week in 2014. In 2016, her song “Let there be Love” was released internationally by Universal Music Group. In 2018 she co-starred in “DFLD: with Mikis Theodorakis on the Road” that premiered at the Hof International Film Festival.
Rezan returned to Greece and began the creation My People just by herself along with her cinematographer Zaf Haitides. In 2022 the film that is co-produced by Academy Award winner Mitchell Block & multi-Academy Award winner Kim Magnusson premiered to rave reviews.