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Product Description ------------------- Travel with accled filmmaker Marlin Darrah, as he visits Europe's most beloved cities and regions. entirely in high definition, 33 Great cities of Europe captures the cultures, histories, and architectures of the world's most traveled continent. Tour the memorable sites - 1. London, England 2. Paris, France 3. Lorie Valley, France 4. French Riviera, France 5. Carcassonne, France 6. Barcelona, Spain 7. Catalan Region, Spain 8. Seville, Spain 9. Granada, Spain 10. Lisbon, Portugal 11. ima, Portugal 12. Antwerp & Brussels, Belgium 13. Kiel Canal, Germany 14. Copenhagen, Denmark 15. Amsterdam, the Netherlands 16. Salzburg, Austria 17. Prague, Czech Republic 18. Bergen and the Fjords, Norway 19. Rome, Italy 20. Nes, Italy 21. The Amalfi Coast, Italy 22. Capri, Italy 23. Venice, Italy 24. Florence, Italy 25. Lucca, Italy 26. Pisa, Italy 27. Athens, Greece 28. Greek Isles 29. Dubrovnik, Croatia 30. Ston & Korcula, Croatia 31. Istanbul, Turkey 32. St. Petersburg, Russia 33. Moscow, Russia. About the Actor --------------- Marlin Darrah is the executive director of International Film & Video (IFV), an award-winning production company based in the U.S. Over the course of Darrah s adventurous thirty-year career, more than fifty travel-adventure companies, educational organizations, and universities have contracted his producing, directing and shooting talents. Assignments and productions have taken him to more than 130 countries around the world. Darrah is particularly skilled at documenting unusual and intriguing cultural and geographical subjects. Darrah has been described as one of North America s most experienced and recognized producers of international video programs and stock footage. His company, IFV maintains a unique stock library, featuring 2000+ hours of pristine and original worldwide footage. in both high definition and standard definition formats, all footage is available to television industry producers and educational organizations for either limited-use or royalty-free licensing purposes. PRODUCTION SUMMARY: Marathon, Darrah's first 16mm film, examined the drama of the Olympic Trials Marathon and won critical accl in the sports world. The film attracted the attention of Runner's World magazine in San Francisco. For three years, Marlin produced several films for the magazine, one of which, Moments of the Runner, was a finalist in the American Film Festival in NY. For that film, Darrah footage throughout the U.S., as well as in Moscow, and at the site of the first Olympic Games in Greece. In addition to his work with Runner's World, Darrah also produced NIKE's first film. In the early 1980s, Darrah traveled to many regions of India to shoot 16mm footage for two documentary programs. He traveled to India more than a dozen times from 1982 2002. Also during the 1980s, Darrah was contracted by a Seattle company, Society Expeditions, to film such countries and locations as Morocco, Senegal, the , New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore, Burma, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, and the icy continent, Antarctica. He produced several travel-adventure films describing those parts of the world. From 1982-2006, Darrah and directed documentaries and travel programs in more than 130 countries worldwide, for more than 50 international companies. His clients have included National Geographic, PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and The History Channel. He has worked with such companies as Nature Expeditions International, Exploration Cruise Lines, Royal Viking Line, Holland America, International Expeditions TRAVCOA, Cultural Folk Tours International, TraveLearn, Eco-Expeditions, World Explorer Cruises, Varig Brazilian Airlines, Garuda Airlines, Federal Express, Lost World Adventures and the Univ. of Virginia s Semester at Sea program. In 2005 Darrah directed and a documentary television mini-series in Egypt for probable broadcast on the History Channel. For 2007-08, Darrah has been co-producing and will direct and shoot a docudrama set in Saudi Arabia. Darrah also recently completed a 7-part, 7-hour DVD series, World s Most Exotic Places. Profiled are Central & South America, New Guinea, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. EDI/Marathon, Inc. has distributed 20,000+ copies of the series throughout N. America to libraries and through direct VHS/DVD sales to the public. Darrah recently co-wrote, directed, and co-produced in SE Asia his first dramatic feature-length movie, Monsoon Wife. The movie was completed in September 2004 and has been a finalist or winner at more than a dozen international film festivals. The movie is about love, betrayal, and redemption in exotic and almost lawless Cambodia. Monsoon Wife is the first ever American-produced feature film to be entirely in Cambodia.