A LIFE IN HISTORY

Dr. Aris Poulianos, anthropologist, was born on the Northeastern Aegean island of Icaria. Now in his mid-80s, Dr. Poulianos was a fighter from an early age and caused controversy among Greek scientists by introducing his theory of an alternative model of human evolution. But what is even more controversial and interesting is his life and times. A rebel in the Greek Civil War fighting with the People’s Democratic Army, a refugee in Palestine, a biology student in the US, and an anthropologist at Moscow University, Dr. Poulianos is no ordinary man. A researcher who spent 40 years of his life dedicated to the study of the Archanthropus of Petralona and the ancestors of the archaic homo sapiens in Greece, he was always a man who stood up for his rights and ideas. The film chronicles his life, adventures and personal moments.