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• Pharaoh (Faraon) | Blu Ray | (16/09/2024) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jerzy Kawalerowicz's dazzling epic revolves around a lethal power struggle in ancient Egypt. As the youthful Ramses XIII ascends the throne, he clashes with powerful priests who seek to undermine his ambition to become the greatest Pharaoh in history. With stunningly choreographed sequences and spectacular cinematography, Pharaoh evokes a world characterised by rigid hierarchy, mysterious ritual and often brutal conflict. This mesmerising film is anchored in ideas as well as spectacle - exposing a society distorted by fear, betrayal and hypocrisy. Faraon - Afterword: an expansive and in-depth discussion of the film by the critic, curator and scholar Michał Oleszczyk.Kawalerowicz in the Desert: a 1964 newsreel on the making of Pharaoh, filmed on location in Uzbekistan.Trailer24-page booklet with new writing by film historian and producer Michael Brooke.New and improved English subtitle translation.Easter egg

• The Story Of Sin | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Passionate Melodrama surrealist erotica and the rapturous strains of Mendelssohn collide head on in Story of Sin - the story of Ewa whose betrayal in love drives her to murder and prostitution. Based on a novel placed on the Index by the Church Borowczyk's only feature to be shot in Poland meticulously recreates a time in which his country had no official existence casting a cynical eye on a corrupt society commited to exploiting the innocent and repressing the erotic.

• Pharaoh | DVD | (17/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three years work produced this magnificent wide screen spectacle with a cast of thousands. It is the story of Ramesse and his fight to survive at the head of the imperial armies in the crumbling Egyptain empire that was being eroded by vast expenditure in gold on foreign wars temples tombs and the Pharaoh's court...