Champollion: A Scribe for Egypt (2000)
- Directed by
- Jean-Claude Lubtchansky
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 52 min
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows Jean-Francois Champollion as he works to decode Egyptian hieroglyphs. It retraces his research, one step at a time, showing the effort behind his discovery.
informativeeducationalearnestfocusedhistoricalpatientintellectualmethodical
What happens
Champollion: A Scribe for Egypt (French: Champollion, un scribe pour l'Égypte; German: Jean-François Champollion und die Hieroglyphen) is a 2000 documentary film adapted from French Egyptologist Michel Dewachter's nonfiction book of the same name. Directed by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky, and co-produced by Trans Europe Film, La Sept-Arte, Éditions Gallimard and Louvre Museum, with voice-over narration by French actors Françoise Fabian and Jean-Hugues Anglade, the film retraces step by step the passionate journey that led Jean-François Champollion to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. The documentary was broadcast on Arte on 18 November 2000, as part of the channel's television programme The Human Adventure, and released on DVD by Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC). In addition to German dubbing, it has been subtitled into English and Spanish. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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