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Animated short film · Classical Greece · The Greco-Persian Wars

Heroes of Bronze: The Memory

Released · 2023

Classical Greece

Martin Klekner’s independent CGI short explores the human memory of war within the world of the Greco-Persian conflicts.

The stone Lion of Chaeronea monument
Lion of Chaeronea. Contextual photograph; not a documentary still. George E. Koronaios · Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped and resized.

The production story

The Memory is the short film at the beginning of Martin Klekner’s Heroes of Bronze project. It uses a digitally created ancient world to tell a personal story against the background of Greek warfare.

The creator’s update of 25 February 2023 discusses the film as already released, with hundreds of thousands of views. It therefore belongs in the 2023 archive, rather than being dated by a later 2024 article. The exact original release day is not asserted here.

Known filming locations

This is a CGI production. Its ancient settings are digitally constructed and should not be listed as physical filming locations.

Developments

  1. 25 February 2023

    The creator reports the short’s completed release and audience response. Source ↗

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