Costa-Gavras

Greece's new Acropolis Museum said Tuesday it would restore references to early Christians vandalizing the ancient Parthenon temple, which were deleted from a film shown to visitors for fear of angering the country's powerful Orthodox Church. The decision last month to delete the short segment angered the film's creator, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Constantin Costa-Gavras, and was criticized in the Greek press as an act of censorship. The controversy came just over a month after the opening of the new museum, where Greece hopes one day to display the Elgin — or Parthenon — sculptures if the British Museum ever accedes to a Greek demand ... Read Full Story

A scene from an animated film shown to visitors at the new Acropolis Museum that depicts Christian priests destroying parts of the Parthenon has been deleted following protests by the Greek Orthodox Church. The creator of the segment, Greek-born French filmmaker Constantin Costa-Gavras, has demanded that his name be taken off the film credits in protest. "The priests used to destroy ancient temples. Now they want to remove scenes from a film," Costa-Gavras told Greece's Mega TV channel. "This is the kind (of censorship) that used to happen in the former Soviet Union." Costa-Gavras, known mainly for French-language films with political themes, such as ... Read Full Story

Greece's new Acropolis Museum on Tuesday said it will undo controversial editing of a video showing the Parthenon temple vandalised by early Christians in a row that has sparked complaints of Church-backed censorship. The video will be restored after its maker, renowned French-Greek filmaker Costa-Gavras, said he meant to attach no blame to Christian priests for the destruction, museum director Dimitris Pantermalis said. "Following this self-evident clarification which the museum accepts ... the information film will resume display," Pantermalis said in a statement. The museum had excised a 12-second segment from the video showing robed figures hacking away sculptures from the iconic Parthenon when ... Read Full Story

A rights group has accused Greece's new Acropolis Museum of censoring a video that shows early Christians vandalising antiquities after complaints attributed to the country's Orthodox Church. The Greek section of the Helsinki Monitor (GHM) on human rights on Monday said it had filed an injunction application against the museum, demanding that the video by prominent French filmmaker Costa-Gavras be restored in full. GHM said the museum had excised a 12-second segment from a Gavras animation video showing robed figures hacking away sculptures from the iconic Athens Parthenon, a reference to the ancient temple's transformation into a basilica when Christianity supplanted paganism in Greece ... Read Full Story

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