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Revelation
Release Date: 12th April 2002
Distributor: Miracom
Certificate: 15
Starring: Terence Stamp, James D'Arcy, Natasha Wightman, Liam Cunningham, Heathcote Williams, Derek Jacobi, Celia Imrie
Director: Stuart Urban
Running Time: 111 mins
A relic has been fought over by the forces of light and darkness for two thousand years. Missing for centuries, the sacred artefact turns up in the back of a camper van in 2001. A powerful secret society is slaughtering innocents to get hold of it. To discover and understand the relic, the ancient arts of sacred geometry, astrology and alchemy must be combined with modern cyber skills and cryptography.

Billionaire mogul Magnus Martel (STAMP) is desperate to find and destroy the relic, reluctantly aided by his estranged son Jake (D’ARCY), a computer decoding expert, and Mira (WIGHTMAN), a student of alchemy. The hunt takes the protagonists from Britain to France, Malta and Greece. Their dangerous journey also becomes a voyage of self-discovery and personal fulfilment.
In pursuit is the Grand Master (KIER), a demonic sentinel who has stalked the ages since witnessing Christ’s crucifixion, and whose unfaltering quest is to take possession of the Loculus and reclaim its devastating knowledge. The hunt takes the protagonists from Britain to France, Malta and Greece. Their dangerous journey also becomes a voyage of self-discovery and personal fulfilment.

And when the secret of the relic is finally revealed, it heralds the crossover of science and religion in the new millennium.
'Revalation' is an occult thriller with its roots in the conpiracy theory world of shows like 'The X-Files'. Director Stuart Urban (the BBC's Our Friends in the North) has crafted a tense thriller with some great performances.

After making their last movie in 1974 with 'The Odessa File', British independent film company, Romulus Films, have returned to production with this film, a mystical adventure thriller joining the supernatural and arcane religious beliefs with the modern cyber skills of the computer age. Dubbed "The Thinking Man's Raiders of the Lost Ark", by producer Jonathan Woolf, thefilm covers such thought-provoking subjests as the Knights Templar, the occult, the mysteries of sacred geometry in European religious sites, ancient astrology, alchemy and the secret links between the dark sciences and Christian society.
Founded in 1948 by brothers John and James Woolf, Romulus Films is responsible for such landmark British films as 'The Flying Dutchman' (1950) , John Huston's 'The African Queen' (1951) and the classic 'kitchen sink' dramas 'Room at the Top' (1958) and 'The L-Shaped Room' (1962).

With thirteen Oscars to their credit, Romulus Films and the Woolf brothers discovered some of Britain's most memorable screen stars.
James Woolf died in 1966 but John continued the company's good work with the blockbuster musical 'Oliver' (1968) and the critically acclaimed thriller 'The Day of the Jackal' (1973).