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A marble mountain of myth and empire, dug from a Turkish hillside and rebuilt in Berlin. This film traces the seven moves of the Pergamon Altar—the object many link to John of Patmos’s line about where “Satan’s throne” is. From its 2nd‑century BC blaze above Pergamon to its burial in a Byzantine wall, near‑death in a lime kiln, shipment by the Ottomans to a hungry new Germany, and its eerie echo in Albert Speer’s Nuremberg grandstand, the altar keeps reappearing at the center of power. Bombs fell; the Red Army crated it east to Leningrad; East Germany raised it again in 1959. Today it sits in pieces, unseen, while the Pergamon Museum promises a June 2027 unveiling. Along the way, the script challenges a popular assumption: John named a city, not a building. A throne can travel; a dwelling is an address. What if the marble moved west—but the tenant never did? Dates, not theories, carry this story. Debt, ambition, and one stubborn engineer saved the stone; five regimes fell around it. Stand at Pergama’s empty footprint and ask: is the seventh move already underway? Watch, decide, and stay awake.
