Like most Greek films this one does not have a sufficient budget for such a theme. As a result the epic intentions are scaled down to the level of a TV production. A significant portion of the film is set in the USA but the director lacked the budget to shoot scenes there.
Sotiria Leonardou does a great job but unfortunately the film falls apart after the one hour mark where she sings "kaigomai." This is truly a great moment but unfortunately there is nothing else in the film to match this great sequence.
There are scenes that are shot in an amateur way and you can't tell what's going on.
DVD quality is awful. Seems to have been taken from a crappy videotape source. Nowadays lots of old Greek movies are remastered for TV and the quality is very good but this has yet to happen with the REMBETIKO.