The Holy Mountain. Nature and Environment
Co-ordinating Director: Angelos Papastefanou
Adaptation of text: Panos Stathoyiannis
Translator and Narrator: John Leatham
Photography Direction: Thanasis Tavridids
Photography Direction: Thanasis Tavridids
Music: Sokratis Katsis
Production Sponsor: Cultural Capital of Europe Thessaloniki 1997
Filmed by the Mount Athos Photographic Archive, 1998
A fascinating journey to the "Garden of the Virgin". The traveller experienses the ancient rhythms of the nature and environment of Mount Athos beginning on its rocky sea-shore and finishing on the peak itself.
While the pattern of monastic life remains almost as it ever has been for a thousand years, the seasons succeed one another, each imparting a distinct colour and character to the landscape of the Holy Mountain, revealing the harmony that exists between the monks and the environment, between the natural and the supernatural.
