Athens 2004: Olympic Opening Ceremony (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad)
With the Olympics returning to Greece, the opening ceremony of Athens 2004 sought to show the entire development of the Olympics over the centuries, until arriving at the modern Olympics.
Genres
Cast
Björk
Lydia Koniordou
Jacques Rogge
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
Costas Karamanlis
Maria Callas
Constantinos Stephanopoulos
Georgios Dritsakos
Thomas Bach
Tony Blair
Anne, Princess Royal
George H. W. Bush
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Barbara Bush
Claudia Bach
Natasa Pazaiti
James L. Easton
Eleni Tsaligopoulou
Ion Iliescu
Lambis Nikolaou
Jan Peter Balkenende
King Frederik X of Denmark
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
Jacques Chirac
João Havelange
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Horst Köhler
Eva Luise Köhler
Ilham Aliyev
Mehriban Aliyeva
Sofía of Spain
Jenna Bush Hager
Cherie Blair
Vitaly Smirnov
Costas Simitis
Konstantinos Mitsotakis
George Papandreou
Jean-Claude Killy
Anna Benaki-Psarouda
Julian Hunte
Romano Prodi
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Dora Bakoyannis
Georgios Voulgarakis
Christodoulos of Athens
John Howard
King Albert II of Belgium
Barbara Pierce Bush
Chris Evert
Demetrios of America
Sofía of Spain
Shimon Peres
He Zhenliang
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Wolfgang Schüssel
Patrice Leclerc
King Haakon VIII of Norway
Kjell Magne Bondevik
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Jolanta Kwaśniewska
Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos
Queen Paola of Belgium
Prince Hitatchi
Yasuo Fukuda
Mikhail Saakashvili
Abdullah II of Jordan
Rania Al Abdullah
Li Zhaoxing
Roh Moo-hyun
Tassos Papadopoulos
Otmar Hasler
Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
Eddie Fenech Adami
Lloyd Axworthy
Saad Hariri
Prince Albert II of Monaco
Victor Yanukovich
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Vladimir Putin
Viacheslav Fetisov
Leonid Tyagachyov
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Queen Silvia of Sweden
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Algirdas Brazauskas
Alex G. Spanos
Brent Scowcroft
Václav Klaus
Tarja Halonen
Paul Kagame
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Vladimir Rushailo
Adnan Terzić
Omar Bongo
Phyllis Easton
Marc Forné Molné
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Stipe Mesić
Hosni Mubarak
Theodore Angelopoulos
