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The Oath of Cyriac is a documentary drama directed by Olivier Bourgeois, released in 2021.

Plot
In the heart of the Syrian conflict, a small group of archaeologists, museum curators, and maintenance workers are fighting to preserve the monumental collections of antiquities at the National Museum of Aleppo.

For several months, these women and men go to the museum every morning under a hail of bombs, facing sniper fire, sleeping on the museum floor for several days to try to accomplish their mission. Without electricity, water, or resources, they empty the display cases, pack the antiquities with pieces of clothing, dismantle the false ceilings to protect them in improvised boxes, build concrete walls to hide ancient statues from looters.

But in 2015, the museum became a front line and the risk of seeing these treasures disappear intensifies. The challenge now becomes to evacuate 50,000 artifacts from a besieged city.

In this story that sounds like a race against time, it quickly becomes clear that with the loss of the museum's collections, a whole part of human history will also disappear

Production

 * Original title: The Oath of Cyriac
 * Directed by: Olivier Bourgeois
 * Written by: Olivier Bourgeois et Yasmine Mahmoud
 * Music by: Laurent Wolf
 * Running time: 73 minutes
 * Release date: 2021

Cast

 * Dr Maamoun Abdulkarim: General director of Syrian Antiques and Museums
 * Desbina Baslan: Museum curator
 * Muhammad Bashir Shabani: Aleppo museum director

Reception
The Oath of Cyriac, received very favorable reviews, especially from festivals specializing in archaeology. It was selected or awarded in more than 20 international festivals.

Accolades

 * First prize at the 2023 Archaeological Film Festival
 * Archaeological Film Prize 2022 of the Varese Festival
 * Best Cultural Heritage Film Award at the Arkhaios Festival 2022
 * Honorable Mention from the Cardiff International Film Festival
 * Selection of the 2023 Zaragoza Film Festival
 * Selection of the 2022 Cyprus Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Film Festival
 * Selection of the 2022 Naples Archaeological Film Festival