The Loves of Pharaoh

The Loves of Pharaoh German Das Weib des Pharao , aka The Wife of the Pharaoh is a 1922 German historical epic film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It starred Emil Jannings.

The restoration was done by Thomas Bakels of Munichbased Alpha Omega GmbH, the company that did the digital 2001 and 2010 restorations on Fritz Langs 1927 Metropolis. Bakels spent five years on the digital restoration the Munich Film Museum did the reconstruction. The complete version of The Loves of Pharaoh had been lost, so restoration had to be done from parts of the film that had been found in various countries. The largest part came from a 35mm tinted nitrate print the German Federal Archives had acquired from a film archive in Russia in the 1970s. The Russian footage lasted only 55 minutes and was missing all the scenes dealing with love and emotion. This version revolved around the massive combat sequences. The restoration extended the Russian version with footage from an Italian nitrate print of Pharaoh that the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, had acquired in 1998. The Italian print had been fragmented but contained the missing love scenes. To this was added other footage, and the title cards, which had turned up during the Munich Film Museums restoration work on another movie. According to the introduction of the restoration, about 600 metres 2,000ft of the original 2,976 metres 9,764ft of film is still missing.Pharaoh Amenes Emil Jannings receives glad tidings King Samlak of Ethiopia proposes an alliance, to be cemented by the marriage of Amenes to Samlaks daughter, Makeda. Sothis, Ameness master builder, reports there has been an accident at the construction site of the treasury and begs for more time for his workers sake, but Amenes is unmoved. ........

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