Fire from Olympia (2004) TV

Crew List & Locations

l-r ERT Cameraman, Yannis Xarchos, Professor Stephen Miller, Juan Carlos Ollana and
Dr Stephen Garland in the Museum at Nemea

Director/Writer: Christopher Miles

Producers: (UK) Derek Horne & Christopher Miles, (Greece) Lilica Antanasioti, (Spain) Juan Carlos Ollana

Production Manager (ERT): Sofia Fermanoglu


l-r ERT crew with Juan Carlos Ollana and Derek Horne		The director examines the hysplex starting machine in Nemea

Camera: Yannis Xarchos, Kit Selim, Alistair Cameron, Stavros Chassapis

Sound: Nikos Despotides & David Lindsay

Designer: Rick Paul

Costumes: Kalliope Kopanista

Music: Joseph James (Concerto for 3 Bouzoukis & Orchestra), Panagiotis Stefos (Pamvoiotia Athla) and James Harpham

Panagiotis Stefos during the Pamvoiotia Athla in Levadia,
which was also known as a music festival in ancient times

Pamvoiotia Athla Organiser: Gourgiotis Loukas

Assistant: Anna Tsirogianni

Runners: Dimitri Dellas and Babis Chounzoumis

The Producers would like to thank:

Judith Swaddling and the Trustees of the British Museum

The Greek National Tourism Organisation

The International Olympic Academy

The International Olympic Committee

LOCATIONS

Olympia - Stadium and Sacred way and Museum. Peloponnese, Greece

River Alpheos, Ancient Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece

Juan Carlos Ollana, with a strigil, scrapes the mud of the river Alpheos from his body as he grapples with the ancient techniques at Olympia

Robert Dover's Olimpick Games on a hill in Chipping Campden

Robert Sidonio at the start of the 100 meters Much Wenlock Olympics

Winner and runners up of the under 15 girl pentathletes at the Much Wenlock Olympics

Nemea Stadium, 'Locker room', Museum and site. Peloponnese, Greece

Corinth - Stadium and ancient starting gate. Peloponnese, Greece

Delphi - Stadium. Parnassos, Greece

Aphrodisias - Stadium, site and Museum, Geyre, Aydin, Turkey

The vast stadium at Aphrodisias in Turkey seats over 30,000

Levadia Athletic Grounds and Football pitch, Boetia, Greece

Mount Olympus, Litochoro, Olympus Kato, Greece

Much Wenlock Athletic Grounds and Museum, Shropshire, England, UK

Robert Dover's Olimpick Games, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK

Italica Stadium, Seville, Spain

Messene Stadium, Messinia, Peloponnese, Greece

Athens Stadium and Museum, Athens, Greece

British Museum, London, England, UK


The stadium in Nemea showing the hysplex starting machine bottom left, where the two hoplites began their race for the film

COMPANY & DISTRIBUTION

ERT (Greece) TV + Milesian Lion

First broadcast 2004 ERT