Pharaoh

Name: Pharaoh
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Released: 1966-03-11

1966 Polish film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz

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Released: March 11, 1966
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Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
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2.stopklatka.pl/film/faraonRetrieved 2016-04-19
3.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=72253.htmlRetrieved 2016-04-19
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Screenwriter: Tadeusz Konwicki
, Jerzy Kawalerowicz
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Cast: Jerzy Zelnik
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1.stopklatka.pl/film/faraonRetrieved 2016-04-19
2.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=72253.htmlRetrieved 2016-04-19
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, Barbara Brylska
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, Krystyna Mikołajewska
, Stanisław Milski
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Runtime: 180 min
Genre: drama film
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, sword-and-sandal film
Country of origin: Polish People's Republic
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Original language: Polish

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Pharaoh is a 1966 epic Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and adapted from the eponymous novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. In 1967, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. It sold more than 7 million tickets in Poland, becoming one of the highest-grossing Polish films of all time. Pharaoh is among 21 digitally restored classic Polish films chosen for Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema.

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Director of photography: Jerzy Wójcik
Filming location: United Arab Republic
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
Błędów Desert
Title: Faraon
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Nominations: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film(1967) statement is subject of: 39th Academy Awards
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International Submission to the Academy Awards(1967) subject named as: Pharaoh · significant event: 39th Academy Awards · nominee: Poland
Color: color
black-and-white
FSK film rating: FSK 16
Filmiroda rating: Category II rating certificate id: F/4912/J
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Aspect ratio (W:H): 2.35:1
Production designer: Jerzy Skrzepiński
Narrative location: Egyptian Empire
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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Different from: pharaoh
Pharaoh
Set in environment: desert
Characters: Ramesses XI
Herihor
Ramesses X
Nitocris
Based on: Pharaoh
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RARS rating: 12+
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Film editor: Wiesława Otocka
Has characteristic: film based on a novel
Depicts: army
labyrinth
solar eclipse
Giza pyramid complex

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