NL

2021

Finished

The Treasures of Crimea

De schatten van de Krim

Directing: Oeke Hoogendijk

Synopsis

In March 2014 an Amsterdam museum held a unique exhibition of ancient Crimean artefacts. The displayed treasure included swords hundreds of years old, gravestones and other rare finds borrowed from Crimean museums thanks to the effort of the exhibition’s curator, archaeologist Valentina Mordvintseva. But while the show was underway, Putin’s troops occupied Crimea and the museum director found himself in an absurd dilemma. To whom should he return the valuable artefacts? To museums in Russian-occupied Crimea? Or to Ukrainian institutions in Kyiv? This dramatic dispute played out in a Dutch courtroom interweaves the interests of Russia, Ukraine and passionate Crimean archaeologists with historical and geopolitical issues and questions of identity and nationalism.
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