Pharaoh

The first time I have seen the movie Pharaon directed by Kawalerovicz I was just a teenager. The movie have punched me like only a few things during my teenage years (some other movies,rock'n'roll songs,girls...). I really didn't remember why I was so fascinated with the movie but I have memory that movie have "something". Therefore it was the movie I have always wanted to see again. Some 30 years later finally I have a chance to see it again. Restored version. Still impressive after all this years. Excellent camera. True colours. Ancient Egypt as I have always imagined. Fine balanced rythm. Easy moving plot, enough mysterious to keep our attention. Everlasting story. Pure masterpiece, giving everyone different experience. Message? Like every piece of art, 1000 people will see it from 1000 different points of view. One have to keep in mind that movie have been made by polish filmmaker in the middle 60's, not necessary oponent of the polish establishment at the time, author who maybe have a certain standpoint to non-secular matters. Specially keeping in mind his previous movie Joanne mother of angels. The movie is simply nice. Must see.

This movie is about the fight between a Pharaoh (Ramses XIII) and the spiritual power. Almost all the historical details were revised by egyptologist. Show the little power of the Pharaohs in the New Empire.

This film is a lovingly rendered meditation on the dissolution of an ancient dynasty. The slow and stately pace matches centuries of the oppressive weight of ossified tradition bearing down on a dying culture, symbolized by the dead stone colossi and gargantuan architecture. There are moments of great beauty realized in its passing, such as the lovely sequence of fowling from a punt in the marshes, and the opening scene of divination on the battlefield by means of observing the movements of the sacred scarab dung beetles. Without a doubt, the most convincing depiction of those fascinating past people to date on the screen

FARAON, aka PHARAOH, is about a power struggle between Rameses XIII, heir to the throne of an impoverished Egypt, and the temple priests, who are hoarding a vast treasury of gold (tribute to their gods). The film lacks the grand spectacle of Cecil B. DeMille, which is to say that it's probably a much more accurate depiction of ancient Egypt than the Hollywood versions you're used to seeing. Lots of political intrigue, several good battle scenes, and some really wild wigs! The liner notes to the DVD say that this was the most important film in the career of director Jerzy Kawalerowicz.

a subtle, bitter, cruel, cold story about the power. admirable adaptation of one of the important Polish novels of XIX century. and support of reflection about force of decisions and the value of good intentions. short, a great fascinating work. who impress not only for acting or costumes, fights and tension but for the realistic rebuild of an Egypt who becomes more than historical lesson. its grace, its terrible force of image and dialog, the new sense of a language who is perfect cloth for the story are virtues of a film who remains, almost half century, fascinating. and useful for understand history as a strange vehicle.