Druids: The Mystery of Celtic Priests

Original title: Die Druiden: Mächtige Priester der Kelten

• 2021
• •
• 53m

• Documentary
• History

★ 8.0 TMDB Rating · 3 votes

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are found all over middle Europe: from the northern Balkans to Ireland. Their cultural achievements were equal in almost every way to those of the Romans and Greeks: They could read and write and spoke Greek and Latin - for centuries, they were the powerful elite of their culture. Only one single Druid is known by name to history: Diviciacos - an aristocrat of the Aedui and personal friend of Julius Caesar. Diviciacos was a politician, a judge and a diplomat, but he lived at a time when the Celtic lands of Gaul were conquered by the Romans. Greek and Roman contemporaries distrusted the actions of this forbear of the famous comic book druid Getafix: They imagined him in bloody rituals in somber woods.

Director

Manfred Uhlig

Release date

Jun 5, 2021

Original language

German

Origin

Germany