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The Golden Coach

Filmed in English at Rome’s Cinecitta studios, the film stars Anna Magnani as Camilla, a commedia dell’arte performer who, with her ragtag troupe, arrives in Peru to open a new theater. Already pursued...

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The Philosophers and… I (a. Parmenides-Empedocles-Zeno, b. Aristotle)

The second and the fourth part of a series with this general title, which is about 10 Ancient Greek philosophers. The series, which includes dramatised scenes, tries to approach the subject by...

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Parthenon

The film is about Parthenon’s history, from the time it was built to the turn of last century when it was severely damaged. The film was made in the occasion of the Cultural Olympiad and it made part...

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Varasova: The Mount Athos of Western Greece

This documentary is about the holy mountain of Varasova which, during the Byzantine period, had been named the Mount Athos of Western Greece. Great temples and monasteries had been founded at the foot...

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Butrint– The Rise and Fall of a Mediterranean City

Butrint, in southern Albania, is a Unesco World Heritage Site. It was originally excavated by an Italian mission under Luigi Ugolini in the 1930’s and the Albanian Institute of Archaeology. Since 1993...

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The Nemesis of the Obelisk

In the Semitic languages, the obelisk is called betyle; bet-el means the “dwelling of the god”. It is a meeting point between earth and sky, between the darkness of underground forces and the power of...

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Puglia, Acropolis, Ulysses and the swallow

On the southeastern tip of Italy, in the region of Puglia at Salento, one finds nine Greek-speaking villages; their capital is Kalimera. The Greek-speaking inhabitants of Salento have a double...

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The roman villa at Hechingen

A wine cellar with amphorae, the remains of the heating of the old baths by the sun, the small, partly reconstructed temples of the divine trinity of Zeus, Juno and Minerva; Villa Rustica is an...

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Sundials– the silent voice of time

This documentary is dedicated to the history of gnomonics, a branch of science dealing with sundials. The oldest sundial dates from 1300 BC; it has been discovered in Palestine. According to Herodotus,...

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Days of Pottery

The “Days of Pottery” took place from 8-13 May 2005 in the village of Garazo, at Milopotamos, Crete. This is a meeting where potters from all over Greece, are producing pottery for everyday use by...

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Falconry in Starigard

Archaeological studies show that, more than a thousand years ago, princes living in the Starigard castle (Wagrin region, on the south-western coasts of the North Sea) went hunting using birds of prey....

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Some called them Levantines

They came to Izmir from Europe the 17th century. They were Italian, French, British, Dutch, Maltese. They settled and they made business. They built railways and theatres, and they imported new...

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Knossos, the labyrinth of myth

Who was the first to discover Knossos? Was the enigmatic structure excavated by the English archaeologist Arthur Evans really a palace? Who sat on the famous “Throne of Minos”? How the myth of the...

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COA, the river of a thousand engravings

Along the banks of the peaceful Coa river in Portugal lies an archaeological treasure: thousands of open-air prehistoric engravings. Their discovery in the 1990’s created quite a stir, comparable only...

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Mantua, towards the origins of the Diocese

2004 marks the 1.200th anniversary of Diocese of Mantua. This event has provided the stimulus to seek out the origins of the Diocese and to establish its cultural identity. Step by step, leafing...

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The Launeddas, the music of Sardinia

The launeddas is a triple clarinet, played with the technique of circular breathing and made out of exclusively natural materials like: cane, beeswax and thread. it is found only in Sardinia where it...

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Memory of Spain: from Altamira to metal tools

“Memory of Spain” is a documentary series that presents the entire course of Spanish history, from the earliest times to the present day. “From Altamira to Metal Tools” is the second program in this...

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The living legend of Aratta

In the Jiroft district, in southeastern Iran, a change in the course of the Halil Roud River recently revealed traces of a 5.000 year-old civilization on the Iranian Plateau totally unsuspected until...

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The Wisigoths and their treasures. From Busento to the kingdom of Toledo

Banished from their settlements near the Black Sea, the Wisigoths, a Teutonic tribe, departed at the end of the 4th century A.D. searching for a new home first to Italy. In 410 A.D. their king, Alaric,...

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Adam’s grandsons

6.000 years on from the disappearance of the Cucuteni Culture (that lived for 1000 years in an area in the east of today’s Romania), everything that is left from them are the charred remains of their...

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The Longobards

The history of the Germanic tribe which came from Scandinavia to Italy and tried to create a state based on the roman tradition.

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Qudad, re-inventing a tradition

Qudad is an ancient lime waterproofing plaster that has been used for several millennia in the Arabian Peninsula. In Yemen, where it most likely originated, it is found on religious and secular...

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Metalla Oiassonis

This documentary introduces viewers to the complex world of ancient mining as it was practiced in the old Roman city of Oiasso, present-day Irun. There, on the western foothills of the Pyrenees and...

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The Piazza Armerina mosaic

We visit six rooms of the Roman Villa of Casale at Piazza Armerina in Sicily (now a Unesco World Heritage Site). Its point of departure is the eponymous composition for piano and string orchestra by...

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A journey into the greek myths

The geography of Greece enjoys a unique cultural privilege: Mountains, rivers and places that may seem indifferent to us now, are the setting of some myth, of one of the most ancient stories of the...

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A journey around the five Schools

There are five french Schools outside France. These low-profile institutions nevertheless have a distinguished track record and are the upholders of a continuous, century-long tradition of historical...

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Yvan’s masterpiece

Yvan, a young stonecutter at the Center for Alexandrian Studies, must create a masterwork in order to prove his capacities and become a Companion of the Tour of France. He has decided to create an...

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The Kizilburun shipwreck

During the summer of 2005, an international team of 20 INA staff members and graduate students from the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University initiated the excavation of a Roman...

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Apollonia

“Magna urbs et gravis”: big and imposing town. That’s the way Cicero described Apollonia. This is the story of the remains of an ancient town that flourished in the 6th century BC and died away in the...

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Poisoned!

Poisoning is humanity’s oldest science. But only in the last century scientific techniques have advanced enough for us to understand the effects of deadly toxins. And only recently computer graphics...

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Network

Police investigation and legal disputes. Tomb robbers, archaeologists, private investigators, state police, the Interpol, auction houses, private collections, museums, international organizations,...

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One thousand years before my century

The gathering of large crowds paying their respects to the icon AXION ESTI, provides the opportunity for a young girl, an adolescent of the year 2000, who wishes to learn about events that took place...

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The Miller of Nemea

What’s a legend? In a way it’s something that didn’t actually happened, but it’s happening through eternity. These are the legends that the American archaeologist Stephan Miller, professor emeritus of...

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In the land of the black Pharaohs

Charles Bonnet, 71 years old, is one of Europe’s leading archaeologists. Geneva-born Bonnet, originally a wine grower, has been combing through the sands of northern Sudan for 4o years. His work has...

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On the trail of the Nabateans: from Petra to Hegra

In the Hedjaz plain of Saudi Arabia, in the midst of a lunar landscape, an astonishing sight is to be found: huge tombs carved in rocky peaks, very similar to those found at the famous site of Petra,...

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Quid Esperanza

Travelling between Spain, Portugal and Sicily, rocked by the music of Juan De La Cruz’s in his “Mystic Night”, this three parts documentary strives to bring to light the occult part of mystery embedded...

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Dimitrios Pallas: a Seafarer on the “Thalassa” of the Churches

A biographical portrait of the great archaeologist-byzantinologist, through testimonies of his own, his partners, his students and friends. A travelogue that begins from his homeland, Salamis, back in...

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A legend in the Taurus Mountains

This is the tale of King Azatiwada’s castle, discovered in 1946 at Karatepe-Aslanta. There, a number of texts were found, written in an ancient Hittite hieroglyph script, that for a long time remained...

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King Solomon’s Tablet of Stone

In July 2001, a remarkable stone tablet appeared in Israel. Known as the Jehoash insciption, it was an archaeological marvel which appeared to answer one of the great questions of the ancient world. It...

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Dig Deeper

A letter in the mailbox; an invitation to submit a film to the International Meeting of Archaeological Film AGON. Archaeological Film? A young woman begins her research in wintry Berlin. Following the...

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Under the name of Lukac

Spain 1936. During the civil war, the struggle for democracy is supported internationaly and volunteers from all over the world are forming the International Brigades, hoping the fascism won’t win. The...

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To miss Electra Atreus-Mycenae

In an exploration of the soul, the heroes of the Atreus House ressurect as archetypes, and speak out through the poems of a modern tragic poet, Stavros Vavouris. His poems turn into roles, monologues,...

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Kalymnos

“Kalymnos” depicts the life and hardships of the inhabitants of this island of the Dodecanese, in the Mediterranean. The film describes the islanders’ struggle to earn a living by diving for sponges in...

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Macedonian Wedding

The first film of Takis Kanellopoulos, which charmed the audience of the first Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1960. A genuine masterpiece which, in 20 min. reaches the depths of the hellenic soul and...

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Schliemann

This fascinating TV documentary describes the thrilling story of Heinrich Schliemann, whose unswerving belief in the accuracy of the Homeric epics brought to light the ruins of Troy and the...

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Alexander the Great and the Antikythera Mechanism

Two of the most recent international co-productions of ERT will travel to Belgrade to represent Greece at the 14th International Archaeological Film Festival, in collaboration with the Hellenic...

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Archaeological Film Evening

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in collaboration with Fairfield University and AGON Archaeological Film Festival, are hosting an evening of archaeological films, recently shown at...

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Archaeological Film Evening

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in collaboration with Fairfield University and AGON Archaeological Film Festival, are hosting an evening of archaeological films, recently shown at...

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14th International Meeting of Archaeological Film of Belgrade

The National Museum of Belgrade organises the 14th International Meeting of Archaeological Film, in collaboration with foreign Cultural Foundations and Embassies in Serbia. The Meeting will take place...

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About Us

The International Meeting of Archaeological Film of the Mediterranean Area… and Beyond, takes place every two years and it is organised by the non profit civil company AGON, supported by the Lambrakis...

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