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British film based on real events, The Dig, 2021, directed by Simon Stone. Quite wealthy widow Edith Pritti (Carey Mulligan) hires a self-taught archaeologist who is also an astronomer and generally much more interested and knew, Basil Brown (Rafe Fiennes) to conduct excavations on her land. She herself at an amateur level is interested in archaeology and asks to excavate one of the mounds, which, as her intuition tells her, hides something interesting. Brown initially disagrees with her and begins to dig up another mound, but after he is buried there with earth, his opinion will change, he will agree with Edith, begin to excavate the mound indicated by her and really find an ancient burial there in the form of an Anglo-Saxon funerary boat. At first, local archaeologists from the Ipswich Museum in every possible way prevented these excavations, tried to return Brown to the excavations they conducted themselves. But as soon as something potentially valuable arrives, archaeologist Phillips from Cambridge will arrive there, who, by a joint decision of several bodies, including the British Museum, will be assigned to lead the excavations, museums, of course, will claim the treasures found. This burial at Sutton Hoo is among the most significant archaeological finds in the UK. But Edith, being seriously ill, monitors the excavations and wants Basil’s merits to be noted, so that they do not attribute everything to themselves. All this in the film takes place in 1939, although the first excavations Brown conducted there before, but this is not shown to us, here the plot is limited only to these excavations, in Britain everyone is preparing for the war, which in the end Britain is entering, all these events are in the background. Edith herself gives all the treasures to the British Museum as a gift, although he could buy them from her. During the war, they were hidden in the London Underground, exhibited only nine years after Edith's death, first without mentioning Brown's name and only relatively recently the injustice was eliminated and now his name is mentioned next to Edith Pritti's name in the museum exhibition. Such a typically British calm film, sometimes there are dramatic events, and some love lines, there are other characters, but other storylines do not get much development. The actors are good - Cary Mulligan and Rafe Fiennes need no introduction, they are both good. The film was made without any special delights that would be inappropriate here. For those who love this kind of movie, I would recommend it.