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(Ur det f\u00f6rflutnas dunkel) A documentary series in three parts.
\nLena Einhorn Film and Sveriges Television; 3\u00d758 min.<\/h5>\n

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In three broad, almost parallel bands \u2013 which stretch from inner Asia to the Atlantic, from the Arctic Ocean to the Middle Eastern deserts \u2013 languages are spoken which can be traced to three of the great ancient tongues in the world. Tongues which carry with them myths, religions and, not least, the answer to unsolved mysteries of the origins of the peoples.<\/p>\n

The series aired on Swedish Television in January 2001, and in June 2001.<\/p>\n

The series From the Shadows of the Past<\/em> consists of three programs:<\/p>\n

Part 1: Between Sanskrit and Swastika<\/h3>\n
(Mellan sanskrit och hakkorset)
\nWriters, Directors, Producers: Bengt Berg and Lena Einhorn
\nPhotographers: Bo Nellhag, Dan Myhrman
\nEditor: Benny Karlsson<\/h5>\n

The young enthusiastic William Jones had made a sensational discovery! Although by profession a judge, he had always been fascinated by languages. And like many other 18th century British administrators sent to India, he had become intrigued by the mysterious culture he encountered in this faraway land.<\/p>\n

It was during one of his trips visiting the temple cities along the Ganges River that Jones came to his remarkable realization: The holy language of the Brahmins, called Sanskrit, was strikingly similar to Latin and Greek \u2013 the culture languages of the Europeans!<\/p>\n

William Jones was at a loss: How could he explain the similarities between these languages, separated by continents? Never could he have imagined the consequences of his discovery\u2026..The ensuing riddle \u2013 \u201cThe Indo-European Riddle\u201d \u2013 was to engage European scientists for more than a century. And not only scientists. The soon emerging \u201canswer\u201d to the riddle \u2013 the so called \u201cArian Myth\u201d, an idea that a people of world conquerors once had swept over the continents, from their Northern European ancestral home \u2013 was to form the basis for the self-image of 19th century Europe. And much later it would reach its catastrophic climax \u2013 in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

This is a film about archaeology and language, but perhaps most of all about the power of myth over our senses..<\/p>\n

Part 2: Once on the Nile<\/h3>\n

(L\u00e4mna ditt land, din sl\u00e4kt och ditt hem)
\nWriters, Directors, Producers: Lena Einhorn and Bengt Berg
\nPhotographer: Dan Myhrman
\nEditor: Ola K\u00e5kneryd<\/h5>\n

Why did the Israelites arrive in Egypt as advisors to Pharao \u2013 and leave the same land as slaves? Who was their leader, Moses? And where did he acquire his ideas \u2013 the ideas about one single, omnipotent and invisible God?<\/p>\n

The remarkable thing is: according to the Bible, the Israelites, later to be called the Jews, were to have arrived in Egypt as one family, consisting of 70 men, their wives and their children. Four hundred years later, they were, still according to the Bible, to have fled this land as a big people, consisting of 600,000 men and their families. And still, nowhere in the vast Egyptian written sources is this information to be found! The Bible seems to be the only source describing the presence of this people in Egypt. Or? Are there parallels in Egyptian history which can be interpreted to correspond to the Biblical descriptions of the Israelites \u2013 the strangers, the initiators of the great religious shift?<\/p>\n

Part 3: An Asian People by the Baltic?<\/h3>\n

(Ett asiatiskt folk vid \u00d6stersj\u00f6n?)
\nWriters, Directors, Producers: Lena Einhorn and Bengt Berg
\nPhotographer: Dan Myhrman
\nEditor: Benny Karlsson<\/h5>\n

\u201cOnly one thing concerns me deeply, and this is the only thing I live for\u2026. I have decided to prove to the Finnish people that we are not a people isolated from the world and its history.\u201d These words were written in 1844 by Matthias Alexander Castr\u00e9n, a linguist, and one of the most prominent figures of Finnish national romanticism.<\/p>\n

Linguistically, Finland lies almost incomprehensibly isolated. If one excludes geographivally proximate Estonia and Lapland, the Finns are completely surrounded by Indo-European languages. And their linguistic neighbours are thousands of miles away. On the Siberian tundra. And on the Hungarian pusta. How was it that these peoples settled so far from each other? And how have their languages survived in such complete isolation? Because, as we see, they were separated from each other a very long time ago. Most of their common words are ancient: arrow, bow, fish-hook, etc.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, it is also among these so called Finno-Ugrian peoples that Shamanism \u2013 the ancient religious practices among the hunter-gatherers \u2013 have survived into our days in Eurasia. If we choose to follow this religious thread, and leave linguistics, we can peer far back into the ancient history of humankind. The Laplandic Shaman\u2019s drum, and that of the South American Medicine Man often display identical symbols. And the rites, as they were practiced until a couple of centuries ago, were remarkably similar. When, and where, did these peoples once meet?<\/p>\n

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Awards<\/h3>\n

Le Prix Aventure et D\u00e9couverte in Paris, October 2002<\/h5>\n
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