00:02Out of the mists of time, out of the eternal sands, out of the living rock, out of the soul
00:09and sinew of thousands upon thousands of men,
00:13it rises from the desert's floor as the mightiest monument ever erected to the glory of one man, to inspire
00:21all men for all time.
00:50Egypt, fifty centuries ago, when her culture and civilization flourished in a setting of unequaled pomp and grandeur,
00:59when her proud legions had conquered all the world and plundered its treasure to feed the insatiable ambition of the
01:06greatest of all pharaohs, Khufu the Magnificent,
01:09a man of superhuman strength and courage, yet consumed by a fear so strange that he tried to conceal it
01:17beneath a massive man-made mountain of stone.
01:21On the sands of the desert, you will raise a pyramid, a structure greater than any other in the world.
01:28This pyramid shall be my resting place for the second life.
01:32From every corner of the land came teeming multitudes of workers, and then slaves and generations of slaves,
01:40to wrest the rock from the unyielding earth, while armies of wretched humanity suffered and died
01:46to haul their colossal burden across the desert to the River Nile,
01:50for the final journey to the mighty ramps that flanked the pyramid.
01:54But while three million stones were being welded together by time and toil,
01:59in the golden halls of the palace, another ageless story was being lived,
02:04by people whose lust and greed, love and hate,
02:08are forever embedded in every rock of the great pyramid.
02:12Vashtar, the captive who held the key to the mystery of the ages.
02:17Senta, who traded a pharaoh's ransom for the love of a slave girl.
02:22Nelifer, the faithless hostage whose beauty masked her sinful treachery.
02:27Hamar, who plotted time's strangest vengeance.
02:31And Khufu, the man who thought that he could conquer eternity.
02:42Don't ever do that again.
02:49What are you trying to tell me?
02:51The Queen Nyle must die.
02:54No, no, Nelifer.
02:56Look at me, Trenner.
02:57I'm afraid to. Afraid of what I see in your face.
03:00Look at me and choose.
03:01Either I am yours, and you help me,
03:05or I go on without you.
03:09Which is it to be?
03:14Why do you come and see me when the pharaoh is gone?
03:16Answer me!
03:18Oh, by the God, you shall answer to pharaoh when he returns.
03:20He shall answer to me now.
03:22I know it.
03:24Traitor.
03:25Coward.
03:26Sire.
03:27Afraid to strike with your own hand.
03:31Let me speak, sire.
03:32Now you shall die by mine.
03:43Now you shall die by mine.
03:47Now you shall die by mine.
04:02Let me speak, sire.
04:03La, la, la, la
04:04Let me speak, sire.
04:17Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020
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