![]() ![]() Curator Valentina Mordvintseva, a Crimean Russian-speaker as it happens, made a selection of the peninsula’s best works to loan in 2013 to the Allard Pierson museum in Amsterdam, liaising there with her counterpart Wim Hupperetz. We’re talking beautiful works made of gold, and some tchotchkes made of less precious material but still priceless because of their provenance, coming from the far east and illustrating how the Silk Road passed right through Crimea. So to summarise the story, archaeologists dug up all these treasures at some point and they’ve spent years in various different museums all over Crimea. ![]() #Road to nowhere ozzy youtube plus#This story’s got the lot, plus some lovely mournful cello music. This film offers a microcosm of the whole conflict: a battle over identity, nationalism, sovereignty, language, international law, the sympathies of western nations and the EU. It couldn’t be a more timely story given how the Russia-Ukraine war heated up in Crimea just this past week with a bomb going off on the Kerch bridge, suggesting Crimea – forcibly seized by the Russians in 2014 – may once again become part of Ukraine. At the heart of the story is a collection of precious antiquities, the Crimean treasures of the title, some dating back thousands of years to the time of the Scythians. D utch director Oeke Hoogendijk’s exemplary documentary unpacks an utterly fascinating legal and ethical conundrum that’s simultaneously extremely timely and weirdly timeless. ![]()
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