PORTFOLIO
GILGAMESCH
The Phantom Of Uruk
A daredevil like Gilgamesh would be a superstar today, gaining lots of followers and viewing figures. Thousands of years ago, he was the hero of the first best-selling book in world history, the Epic of Gilgamesh. But otherwise there is no record of the extravagant and spendthrift king of Uruk, who is purified after the death of his friend Enkidu and goes down in Mesopotamian history as a wise and good ruler. But then archaeologists find a strange building in a silted riverbed... Is there evidence of a true core in the oldest epic of mankind?
The film searches for historical traces of the legendary ruler and, together with researchers, discovers that there is more evidence than previously thought.
1 Episode
ZDF TerraX / Arte (2007)
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43MIN.



