Alexander the Great (miniseries)

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| genre = Documentary

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Martin Carazo Mendez{{cite web |url=https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/alexander-der-grosse---auf-dem-weg-zur-macht-100.html |title=Alexander der Große - Auf dem Weg zur Macht |author= |date=24 July 2016 |website=zdf.de |language=de |access-date=6 April 2020}}

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| runtime = 44 minutes

| company = Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion GmbH

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| first_aired = {{Start date|2014|10|25|df=y}}

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Alexander the Great ({{langx|de|Terra X: Alexander der Große}}; {{langx|fr|Alexandre le Grand : de l'histoire au mythe}}) is a 2014 documentary miniseries about Alexander the Great, a co-production of ZDF, Arte and ORF for ZDF's brand Terra X. The series premiered on 25 October 2014 on Arte as a 90-minute film, and later broadcast on ZDF as a two-part series.{{cite news |last=Keller |first=Harald |date=25 October 2014 |title=Ein Leben als Kriegsherr |trans-title=A Life as a Warlord |url=https://www.fr.de/kultur/tv-kino/leben-kriegsherr-11175308.html |language=de |work=Frankfurter Rundschau |location=Frankfurt |access-date=6 April 2020}} It has been dubbed into English and Spanish.

Synopsis

Over the centuries, the myth of Alexander the Great, an illustrious conqueror of antiquity, has been enriched. History retains from him the image of a fine strategist and an ambitious monarch who managed, in little more than a decade, to constitute an immense empire going from Greece to India. But what man was he really? Based on reconstructions, the documentary attempts to unravel the legend of historical reality, looking back on Alexander's journey, from his birth in 356 ʙᴄ to his presumably illness-related death in 323 ʙᴄ.{{cite web |url=https://www.programme-tv.net/programme/culture-infos/r426093-alexandre-le-grand/7577506-de-lhistoire-au-mythe/ |title=Alexandre le Grand : De l'histoire au mythe |author= |date=2014 |website=programme-tv.net |publisher=Prisma Media |language=fr |access-date=7 April 2020}}

Cast

David Schütter as Alexander the Great
Vladi Georgiev as child Alexander
{{ill|Sascha Tschorn|de}} as Hephaestion
Teodora Duhovnikova as Olympias
Andrei Slabakov as Philip II of Macedon
{{ill|Stoyan Aleksiev|bg|Стоян Алексиев}} as Aristotle
{{ill|Vladislav Violinov|lt=|bg|Владислав Виолинов}} as Philotas
Alexander Demandt as himself
Hans-Joachim Gehrke as himself
{{ill|Tanja Scheer|de}} as herself

Episodes

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| EpisodeNumber = 1

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title = The Path to Power

| Aux1 = {{lang|de|Auf dem Weg zur Macht}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|10|26|df=yes}}{{cite web |url=https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7840/2860184 |title=Der erste europäische Weltherrscher: ZDF-"Terra X"-Zweiteiler über Alexander den Großen |author= |date=21 October 2014 |website=presseportal.de |language=de |access-date=7 April 2020}}

| ShortSummary = Alexander's childhood and how he becomes king of Macedon.

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| EpisodeNumber = 2

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title = Until the End of the World

| Aux1 = {{lang|de|Bis ans Ende der Welt}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|11|2|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Alexander defeats Darius III and begins the conquest of Asia.

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Production

The shooting started on 21 February 2014 and ended on 17 June of the same year. Filming locations took place in Greece, Iran, and a studio in Bulgaria.{{cite web |url=https://www.crew-united.com/en/Terra-X-Alexander-der-Grosse__190423.html#!&tabctl_15249142_activeTab=2789375848 |title=Terra X - Alexander der Große |author= |date=2014 |website=crew-united.com |access-date=7 April 2020}}