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Cast

Lynden Edwards

Lynden Edwards

Michael Ventris

Sam Baron

Sam Baron

Young Michael Ventris

Jack Davenport

Jack Davenport

Narrator

Judy Cowne

Judy Cowne

Dorothea Ventris

Robert Nisbet

Robert Nisbet

Arthur Evans

Sophie Garner

Sophie Garner

Lois Ventris

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Robin Dashwood

Robin Dashwood

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A Very English Genius

20020.0 / 1060 min
Documentary

Overview

The work and unexplained death of Michael Ventris, the English architect, classicist, and philologist who deciphered the ancient Mycenaean Greek script Linear B, are portrayed.