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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
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.