Category Archives: films

1975 – a Flight over Athos, the movie

Posted on January 11, 2018 by

In post 1937 I already showed you the pictures I took during our Cessna flight on May 6th 2017. During that flight I had two cameras in both my hands: one for taking pictures and in the other hand I … Continue reading →

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1905 – new Bulgarian documentary film about Athos: “The Garden of Theotokos”?

Posted on April 22, 2017 by

Last week I received an email from Silvia Stoyanova, producer of PavloFFilms. This is what she wrote to me to promote their new film about Athos: “Our film is made for a wider audience as from the start we decided that we … Continue reading →

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1901 – documentary ‘Athos Im Jenseits dieser Welt’: now on YouTube and TV (15-04)

Posted on March 24, 2017 by

The documentary ‘Athos Im Jenseits dieser Welt‘ is now to be seen on YouTube as a ‘screener’. As soon as the DVD was available on Amazon.com I bought it and showed it to my fellow pilgrims, who will be visiting Athos … Continue reading →

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1858 – Athos film in French from 1963

Posted on October 30, 2016 by

This film is black and white, 13′.35 minutes long, with a long interview with a French speaking monk Pavlos Lavriotis – 1885 – 1980 (photo above) and images of the last remaining six inhabitants of skiti Andreou, see pictures below.A monk from Mongolia, … Continue reading →

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1839 – Hermit cells

Posted on August 26, 2016 by
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1834 – Athos film from Dutch pilgrims april 2016

Posted on July 19, 2016 by

My fellow Athos pilgrim Peter Ariese, who visited Athos in 2011 for the first time together with our group, came back to the Holy Mountain April this year, this time joined by his brother and Albert Hollander, who made this … Continue reading →

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1821 – more stills from the documentary “A thousand years on Mount Athos”

Posted on May 26, 2016 by

The documentary I showed you in the last blog (1820) has some interesting scenes from unknown places on Athos. But first I will show you a few stills from Panteleimonos, starting with a picture from an (very) old monk, who … Continue reading →

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