The Last Day Of Pompeii Tv 2003
The last day of Pompeii (original title: is a television movie directed by British Peter Nicholson in 2003. This docudrama chronicles the destruction of Pompeii during the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79.
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Synopsis
The documentary tells the story of the last days of the Roman city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of several families of residents of the city, and focuses on the impact of each stage of the eruption on the daily lives of people of Pompeii.
Specifications
- Title: The Last Day of Pompeii
- Original Title: Pompeii: The Last Day
- Director: Peter Nicholson
- Written by: Edward Cantor-Dumas
- Image: Nick Dance
- Installation: Liana Del Giudice
- Art Direction: Stephen Campbell
- Sets: Amanda Bernstein
- Costumes: Lee Croucher, Isolde Sommerfeldt
- Makeup: Jutta Russell
- Music: Ty Unwin
- Producer: Ailsa Orr
- Associate producer: Mark Johnston
- Executive Producer: Michael J. Mosley
- Producer: BBC
- First broadcast: 20 October 2003 on BBC One
- Released in France: 22 February 2004
- Duration: 90 minutes
Distribution
- Frank Murray Abraham, narrator's voice (VO)
- Tim Pigott-Smith: Pliny the Elder
- Jonathan Firth: Stephanus
- Jim Carter: Polybius
Analysis
The main characters are fictional documentary, but were invented from archaeological finds and other sources of information on the inhabitants of the city at the time of the eruption. Historical figures such as Pliny the Elder and his nephew Pliny the Younger are also staged.
The eruption of Vesuvius was reconstituted in synthetic images using the ancient testimony of Pliny the Younger (who gave the first description of eruptions called Plinian eruptions ), supplemented by the contribution of Volcanology contemporary.
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