Crew List & Locations
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l-r Marina Gratsos in Greece, Alistair Cameron with the director the first day of shooting the Venus de Milo in Paris, and Felix von Moreau in Egypt |
CREW (Credits as on film)
Director/Producer: Christopher Miles
Associate Producers: Marina Gratsos, Felix von Moreau
Writer: Christopher Miles with with contributions from:-
Aeschines, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Valerius Catullus, Diogenes, Herodotus, D.H.Lawrence,
Naso P. Ovidius, Plato, Aurelius Propertius, Sappho, Socrates, Suetonius, Xenophon
Additional Material: Amy Briamonte, Marina Gratsos
with the voices of Vanessa Miles, Michael Osborne and Peter Warnock
Co-producers: Bayerischer Rundfunk & ERT
A&E Executive Producer: Michael E. Katz
Supervising Producer: Amy Briamonte
Production Manager: Ulla Streib (UK)
Production Coordinator: George Culucundis (Greece)
Director of Photography: Alistair Cameron
Assistant camera: Jack Holmes
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l-r George Culucundis in bg - Alistair Cameron with Jack Holmes - Thomas Fegan takes a break from researching |
Sound Recordist: David Lindsay
Editors: Paul Trevor Bale and Alex Morgan
Music: James Harpham
'Song to Apollo' - music James Harpham & Mario Frangoulis - words Christopher Miles
Art Director: Suzy Miles
Costume Designer: Kalliopi Kopanitsa
l-r Kalliope Kopanista - James Harpham and flute girl Sophie Miles
Researcher and Assistant: Thomas Fegan
Main title and maps: Hugo Moss
Rostrum camera: Ken Morse
On-line editor: Clive Pearson
Location Managers: Gina Petropoulou (Greece), Eve Sylvester (Italy), Susan Adler
In Pompeii, after sketching the painted walls of an "andron", Suzy Miles constructs an ancient Greek dining-room in Calstone House Studios with Mark Ellis for filming Plato's 'Symposium
Productions Assistants: Yannis Panayiotakis (Greece), Giovanni Castellano (Italy)
Make-up & hair: Wendy Croft, Maria Xenariou, Dimitra Dalla
Yannis Panayiotakis as well as assisting, played the mischievous god Pan, but as he was wearing a real goat skin he began to smell dreadfully even after one day's work!
l-r Yannis Panayiotakis as Pan - Karl Gibbs, Simon Roberts, CM and Yannis as assistant
Wardrobe: Maria Assisaki, Emma Skala
(Not credited on main film)
2nd Camera assist UK: Peter Gregory
2nd Sound Recordist UK: Andy Cottom
2nd Boom operator: UK: Ian McClaggan
Carpenter UK: Mark Ellis
Gaffers UK: Mark Gibbon and Geoff Quick
German Version
Commissioning Editor for Bayerischer Rundfunk: Walter Flemmer
Production Supervisor (Germany): Marion Jerrendorf
Dubbing Supervisor (German Version): Guy Kubli
Narrator (German Version): Beate Himmerlstoss
Narrator (German version): Joachim Höppner
Narrator (German Version): Karl-Rudolf Menke
Film Editing (German Version): Barbara Grünwald
Dubbing voices (German Version): Klaus Guth, Hartmut Reck, Fitz v. Hardenberg,
Philip Moog, Matthias Klie, Ole Pfennig, Martin Halm, Martina Dunker, Claudia Kleiber,
Michele Tichawsky, Solveig Duda, Berno v. Cramms, Andreas Lier, Thomas Otto, Jan Koester, Jakob Riedl
Acknowledgements and thanks:-
Guido Cassinone and Arcadia Films Ltd
John Julius Norwich, Juliette de la Genière, Nathalie de Chaisemartin, Mark Watts and the Trireme Trust, Laurence Pollinger Ltd and the Estate of Frieda Lawrence for ‘Etruscan Places’, Dominic Montserrat for ‘Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Penguin Group for the ‘Love Songs of Sappho’ translated by Paul Roche and Alpha Arts
EGYPT
The Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt, UK and the Cairo Museum
FRANCE
Museums of Aquitaine, Antiquités Nationales St Germain en Laye and the Louvre
GERMANY
Museums of Staatliche Antikensammlung & Glyptothek Munich, Bayerische Aegyptische Sammlung
Munich and Helikon Film GmbH
GREECE
Yannis Tzedakis, Director of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Athens
The Film Group and Kosmocar Volkswagen, Greece
Museums of Athens, Corinth, Delos, Delphi, Heraklion, Sparta and the girls and boys of the gymnasium in Olympia
ITALY
Ministry of Culture, Rome
Museums of Tarquinia, Villa Guilia, Conservatori and Capitoline, Ara Pacis - Rome
Naples, Pompeii,Paestum and the Villa Adriana Tivoli
La Solfatara of Pozzuoli, Naples and the Grand Hotel Vesuvio, Naples
SWITZERLAND
Basel Antikenmuseum
TURKEY
Museum and site of Aphrodisias
UK
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and The British Museum
USA
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida and the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
MILESIAN FILM PRODUCTIONS
in association with
PRIMETIME and A&E NETWORK
© Milesian Film productions Ltd MCMXCVll
After an enjoyable wrap-party in Athens on 25th May, some of the crew left for London while a very reduced unit left for the Peloponnese in the trusty old Land Rover
Locations
Red = flights taken
Blue= Land Rover & Citroen road journey - S=start to F=finish
On the 29th April 1996 a crew of 6 and all equipment left London at 10am in an old Land Rover and Citroen for Paris. We began shooting the Venus de Milo the following morning in the Louvre at 8.45 am.
FRANCE
Louvre Museum, Paris
Museums of Aquitaine, Antiquités Nationales St Germain en Laye
Lascaux Caves, Montignac, Dordogne
SWITZERLAND
Basel Antikenmuseum
On the 2nd May we were joined by co-producer Felix von Moreau, and left the hospitality of his family home near Tölz at 7am the following morning for Munich
GERMANY
Museum of Staatliche Antikensammlung & Glyptothek, Munich,
Bayerische Aegyptische Sammlung Museum, Munich
ITALY
Museums of Tarquinia, Villa Guilia, Conservatori and Capitoline, Ara Pacis - Rome
The Roman Forum and the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine
The Obelisk to Antinous in the Borghese Gardens and the Villa Adriana Tivoli
Circular canal in Hadrian's Villa's vast garden near Tivoli, where the emperor mourned his dead lover Antinous, a statue of whom was found at Delphi during excavations in 1893.
La Solfatara of Pozzuoli, Baia Baths and Temple + Cuma and acropolis Naples
Sybile's cave and passageway and Museum Archaelogico, Naples
La Casa dei Vetti, Il Lupanare, (the brothels) the Amphitheatre and streets in Pompeii
Temple, Museum and Diver's Tomb in Paestum
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View of Pompeii from the top of the Gate of Vesuvius showing much of the excavated city
GREECE
Temple of Apollo, Peirene Fountain and Gymnasium and the Agora, Athens
National Museum, Athens
Hadrian's Gate, Athens
Museums of Athens, Corinth, Delos, Delphi, Heraklion, Sparta and Olympia
The reduced unit leaves Olympia for Arcadia
Arcadia's waterfalls and woods
Nestor's Palace & Pylos Museum - the Queen's Bath
Down to a crew of 3 on the last day, we left on 1st June to resume shooting in the UK and Egypt, but not before a final swim on the shores of Pylos in the southern Peloponnese.
UK
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
The British Museum, London
Psistaria Kebab Taverna, Wilton Road, London SW1 for the all female 'symposium'
Calstone House Studios, Calstone Wellington for the all male 'Plato's Symposium'
EGYPT
National Museum, Cairo
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut , Thebes
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir al-Bahri in the Theban Hills, Egypt
Temple of Hathor, Dendarah
Temples of Luxor and Karnak
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