ESCLAVE ET PHARAON (Young King Tut)

Director: Simon Brook

Scriptwriter: Gérard Brach

France, Germany, Canada, UK

Producer: Natacha Devillers

Supported by the MEDIA program, CNC, Procirep, Angoa

Akhenaten, the monotheist pharaoh, is a victim of the fanatics who worship the Ancestral Gods. His second brother, Tutankhaten (Tut’s first name), aged nine, grows up by his side in the palace. Egypt falls into chaos. To save the Empire, the chief of war launches an attack against the Hittites barbarians. It is a disaster.

Tutankhaten goes to war along with the rest of the regiment. He is tracked down in the desert and attacked by the Hittites. A young slave saves the young Prince's life by trading places with him. The two youngsters become friends. The priests who worship Amun raise an army of mercernaries to come and save the Empire. Tutankhaten becomes king in the place of his brothers and is renamed Tutankhamun. But the true keepers of power wonder if the slave, the friend of the Pharaoh, will keep secret the cowardice of the new Monarch…