MARCO POLOA VERY MODERN JOURNEY3x50 min - Filmed in HD - An EOS Films ProductionIn this three part series we retrace Marco Polo’s legendary journey from Venice to the far reaches of the Mongol Empire, which he started in 1271. His travels 700 years ago revealed an exotic world of riches the west had little knowledge of. But how does his journey look today?

East and West - where does the power lie? Where does the future lie? How does China fit into the world? These were the questions that a young merchant from Venice was asking when he set out to discover the unknown East. His story, related in ‘The Travels of Marco Polo’, has shaped how the West has viewed the East ever since.

Marco Polo’s journey from Venice to the far reaches of the Mongol Empire started in 1271 and became a 20 year exploration of the great, conquered lands of the East. In this three part series we retrace that physical journey today, looking at the people and places he visited some 700 years ago

The journey starts from Venice and continues through the Middle East, stopping at Acre and Jerusalem, passing through war-ravaged Baghdad and along the Silk Road. It travels into the vast deserts of present day Iran before entering China and the great Mongol Empire.

Episode 1 – Another World ‘Another World’ travels from Venice to the Holy Land, then north east through present day Iraq and through southern Iran to the home of the assassins of Alamut. A Chinese professor travels west to Venice in search of the ‘shadow’ of Marco Polo, posing philosophical questions about East and West, and exploring the implications of the Marco Polo story. And a young man from Venice travels the physical journey east, providing a visual motif of the famous journey.

Episode 2 – Lost Worlds‘Lost Worlds’ picks up the journey at the Pamir Mountains on the edge of China, from where Marco Polo followed the Silk Road, down to the forbidden Taklamakan Desert and onto the vast expanses of the Mongolian steppe. He makes his way to Xanadu, the heart of Kublai Khan’s power base. Along the way we meet the modern guides on the ancient horse-drawn postal routes and discover the City of Women in modern day Tibet.

Episode 3 – The New WorldThe final film travels through China. From Kublai Khan’s Beijing in the 1270s to the rapid development of the city in the 1990s, Beijing represents the power and economic might of the country. We meet a group of millionaires from internet trader Alibaba who appear to have the same entrepreneurial spirit as the ancient merchants encountered by Marco Polo.

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