Outstanding!!! Perhaps the best documentary ever shot in the history of Greek cinematography. With a humble and tender look the director takes a look at the life of people of Elefsina, a city divided between antiquity and modern times as shown through the ruins revealed each time a new building is raised, although the course towards modernization is irreversible.The film displays the dignity of local people as well as their pride of being residents of this historic site. It also displays their awareness of the historic importance of the place they live. This is shown especially as the director watches an old homeless man ,illiterate perhaps, who collected stones from ancient monuments and carried them to the the Archaeological Museum without anyone to tell him to do so. In my opinion every teacher should take his pupils or students to the cinema to watch it. Sometimes history lessons are not always given in the classroom!
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