Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer

2009 · IMDB 6.5 · 68 VOTES · DIR. Paul Elston, Mark Lewis

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Overview

Cleopatra - the most famous woman in history. We know her as a great queen, a beautiful lover and a political schemer. For 2,000 years almost all evidence of her has disappeared - until now. In one of the world's most exciting finds, archaeologists believe they have discovered the skeleton of her sister, murdered by Cleopatra and Mark Antony. From Egypt to Turkey, Neil Oliver investigates the story of a ruthless queen who would kill her own siblings for power. This is the portrait of a killer.

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00:00:12 Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt - the most famous woman in history.
00:03:19 and they resealed the sarcophagus.
00:05:11 in the other niche.
00:07:27 in a tomb 500 miles from Egypt, where she was born?
00:10:18 The family argument rapidly got out of hand.
00:12:48 From the first analysis, I think, or I'm sure, that it was a female.
00:14:48 But is the skeleton from the right period?
00:17:25 Others have written long before I that her hair was mussed with so
00:19:53 was nearly nothing, I think.
00:21:53 and that's something that's quite common in children.
00:23:56 it's a beautiful feature.
00:26:31 Seizing the opportunity, Caesar led his bodyguard to the mouth of the harbour.
00:29:41 because the original archaeologists took it back to Vienna.
00:31:42 Nobody knew about this drawing up to this summer.
00:34:53 the message was clear.
00:37:30 At their head was Arsinoe.
00:40:10 Instead, he banished her
00:43:35 because the Artemesion had its own administration
00:46:09 But Cleopatra played hard to get.
00:48:20 her younger sister Arsinoe.
00:51:13 from the temple of Artemis and there, in this holy place, the young Arsinoe
00:53:20 And this is where it should be. May we touch it?
00:55:14 11 years after Arsinoe's death, Antony and Cleopatra made a bid
00:57:34 or an amorous seductress.

Cast & Characters

Neil Oliver Self - Presenter Prudence Jones Self - Historian Stanley Burstein Self - Author of 'The Reign of Cleopatra' Hilke Thür Self - Archaeologist, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Fabian Kanz Self - Forensic Anthropologist, Medizinische Universität Wien Caroline Wilkinson Self - Anthropologist, University of Dundee Georg Plattner Self - Conservator-restorer, Natural History Museum, Vienna Robert Kalasek Self - Technische Universität Wien Sabine Ladstätter Self - Archaeologist, excavation site director of Ephesos Christopher Rynn Self - Anthropologist

Dialogue Record

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Production Record

DirectorPaul Elston, Mark Lewis
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes68