Les Hommes oubliés de la Vallée des Rois
The Forgotten Men of the Valley of the Kings
In Upper-Egypt, at Deir-el-Medineh, near Louxor, the traces of a village are hidden in the hollow of a gorge, unseen from the road leading to the gates of the Valley of the King. These ruins represent the rarest kind of vestiges of an egyptian community at the time of the Pharaohs. Direct testimony of the ordinary life of Egyptians in the New Empire period. These unknown figures called "the Servants of the Square of Truth", were the quarrymen, the plasterers, the draughtsmen, the sculptors and the painters of the Tomb of Pharaoh over a period of some five centuries. Forming a privileged corporation, they constituted a community whose members had virtually hereditary functions. All the underground monuments of the Valley of the King were their handiwork, an extraordinary achievement that no visitor was intended ever to see…
France - 2002 - 52 mn - Betacam SP - Colour
Director
Jérôme Prieur
Script
Jérôme Prieur
Camera
Sabine Lancelin
Sound
Myriam René
Editing
Françoise Besnier
Music
Georges Kazazian
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Production
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel,
4 avenue de l'Europe,
94366 Bry-sur-Marne Cedex, France
Tél : +33 1 4983 2000
Fax : +33 1 4983 3182
Co-Production
France 3, France 5, Musée du Louvre, Réunion des Musées Nationaux
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Sales
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel,
Michèle Gautard,
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94366 Bry-sur-Marne Cedex, France
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Fax : +33 1 4983 3182
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