The Rescue of a Monument (1987)

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• 1987
• Documentary
• Costas Vrettakos

In the face of an irreversible disaster of inestimable cultural value, this is a chronicle of the restoration carried out in the sacred rock of Acropolis, and the desperate race against time of the archaeological team to avert the calcification of Parthenon's marbles. Spanning more than a decade of arduous and painstaking work, from 1973 to 1986, Costas Vrettakos' documentary vividly illustrates the fears, the anxieties, the responsibility, and the hopes of both the technicians and the scientific team, as well as the slow progress of the delicate and equally fascinating project.