The Mystery of the Rascar Capac Mummy

Dec 14, 2019

0h 52m

★ 8.3

Overview

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has left its mark on many generations of readers. To draw it, the Belgian cartoonist was probably inspired by a mummy exhibited in the first pre-Columbian exhibition organized by the Brussels Cinquantenaire Museum in 1923. Two intrepid archaeologists embark on a fascinating journey to reconstruct the story of the mysterious mummy.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

Un Film à la Patte

Panoramique Terre Productions

ARTE GEIE

RTBF

Moulinsart

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Héléna Noguerra

Self - Writer

Dominique Maricq

Self - Archaeologist

Serge Lemaitre

Self - Archaeologist

Caroline Tilleux

Self - Egyptologist

Luc Delvaux

Self - Archaeologist

André Delpuech

Self - Radiologist

Étienne Danse

Self - Scanner Technician

Jean-Philippe Hastir

Self - Anthropologist

Elva Clara Torres Pino

Self - Archaeoentomologist

Jean-Bernard Huchet

Self - Carbon-14 Technician

Mathieu Boudin

Self - Toxicologist

Jean-Claude Alvarez

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