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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: HEAD OFFICE

1982-0253

Vidéo

1976-04-13

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

director/producer, Leo Rampen; researcher/writer, Deborah Cowley

Cy Strage narrates a documentary program on the Easter celebrations of one of the world's oldest Christian sects, the Coptic Christians living in Egypt. The program depicts the ceremonies held during Holy Week, when the Copts relive the events of Christ's passion; the spraying of holy water over a Palm Sunday throng;the baking of Easter Bread, and the ritual burial and resurrection of an icon representing Christ. Coptic culture is also examined: the hectic activity of the Old Christian Quarter in Cairo; the unchanging life of a Coptic farming village on the Southern Nile, and the remote desert monastery of Al Suria. Also shown are scenes of a coptic marriage and the spring festival of Sham El Messim (Sniffing the Breeze") shared by Moslem and Christian communities alike.

CAIRO ~COPTIC CHURCH~EASTER~EGYPT~MONASTERIES, COPTIC~PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURE~RELIGIONS~WEDDINGS

English

Libre

GAD 0FD547

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