THE TREASURES OF CRIMEA

By Oeke HOOGENDIJK

RESERVOIR DOCS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2021

How an ancient collection from long lost civilizations became a focal point of one of the world’s major political controversies today.

Festivals
& Awards

IDFA 2021
One World Film Festival 2022
CPH:DOX 2022
Millenium Docs Against Gravity 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Art - Culture, Thriller
    • Countries
    • NETHERLANDS
    • Languages
    • DUTCH, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, UKRANIAN
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Oeke HOOGENDIJK
    • Producer(s)
    • Frank VAN DEN ENGEL (Zeppers Film)
    • Synopsis
    • The travelling exhibition Crimea – Gold and Treasures of the Black Sea is being held hostage in the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam. Since the annexation of Crimea by Putin, the art collection became stateless.
      The treasures became a tool in a power struggle between Russia and Ukraine, both claiming the collection as their own. The Netherlands unwillingly became a referee. To which party should the exhibition be returned?