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Pompeii

Director(s): Jean Baronnet

In AD 79, almost 2,000 years ago, the city of Pompeii was buried beneath the ashes of Vesuvius. For the last three hundred years, archaeologists, historians, painters, and filmmakers have tried to reconstitute the daily life of the people of Pompeii. Jean Baronnet's imaginative montage helps bring the ancient city back to life. Switching between AD 79, the Age of the Enlightenment (when the site was discovered), and the present day, the film prompts a reflection on life and death... for Pompeii is not a typical archaeological site: it represents life in the clutches of a violence that confronts us with the fragile, ephemeral condition of human beings.

Genre

Documentary

Copyright

1997

Length

56 minutes

Producer(s)

Guy Séligmann, Sodaperaga

Co-producer(s)

Canal Plus, La Sept Arte, Musée du Louvre

Selections / Awards

Audience Award at the Icronos International Archaeological Film Festival, Bordeaux, 1998; International Archaeological Film Festival of Rovereto, Italy, 1999