Original subtitles

The Wife of the Pharaoh

Only about half of the 2976 meters of the original film

survived, and in poor condition. In the present version the gaps

in the plot will be explained in black text on a white background.

The text of the other intertitles follows the original script.

First Act

King Samlak of Ethiopia to King Amenes

who sits on Amon Ra's throne.

Life gives him salvation and strength.

I am visiting your residence, to humbly offer you an alliance,

for the protection of the inner and outer peace of our Empires.

For our bond to become even stronger,

I wish to offer you my daughter Makeda.

An accident at the construction site of the Treasury...

Don't jeopardize the valuable lives of the workers

and give me time for the construction.

I only wish to know when the Treasury will be finished!

The misfortune of the Treasury is real.

Your men will perish miserably...!

Because the King is having build a Treasury,

our men must die...?

To the Pharaoh!

Pharaoh, give us back our men!

Think of the children!

Are you ready to offer the Gods a morning sacrifice?

Lord of the Heavens, Father of the Gods,

the King is facing you, to thank you in this morning hour.

King Samlak of Ethiopia gets his daughter decorated

before her entrance into Egypts capital.

She thinks too highly of herself

to assist me with my decoration.

Theonis, the slave, attracts the fury of Makedas, her mistress.

Before punishment she got saved by an Egyptian:

Ramphis, son of Sothis, Amenes' architect.

He kidnaps her on his raft that transports wood and

valuables for the Pharaoh's new Treasury.

Second Act

Samlak, King of Ethiopia, and his daughter Makeda

are arriving at the Pharaoh. Amenes is less impressed by

Makeda than by the treasures Samlak had brought with him.

In the house of the Treasurer,

Ramphis and Theonis are playing a board game.

That's my treasury.

Don't we want to go down there

to see the Treasury from nearby?

No one is allowed to come close to the Treasury

at the risk of capital punishment.

I cannot break my own order.

You have good reasons to be cautious.

People are stealing in your country.

At the ports of your Capital a female slave was stolen.

...have it announced throughout the country

that I vouched for bringing along

the stolen slave.

Come on, we want to finalize the alliance.

Coming close to the Treasury is a capital offense.

- Tomorrow! - Tomorrow!

What were you looking for in my Treasury?

You're lying!

You will both die!

Kill me, but keep him alive. I alone am guilty!

As soon as the sun rises a lawful judgement will be enforced.

I am ready to pay for his life.

I wait until sunrise... then he will die.

Now you know my will.

The Pharaoh hat Ramphis thrown into the alligator pool.

Ramphis is screaming. Theonis hears it from her cell.

She can see through the window

how Ramphes is in danger.

Bring me to the King - but let him alive.

Thanks to the goodness of the Pharaoh you've been

pardoned to lifelong forced labor in the stone pit.

You are the first genuine person...

I will do anything to win your heart.

But I pardoned him?

...pardoning with lifelong forced labor in the stone pit!

Those are your important state affairs.

Didn't you guarantee to

bring me back the stolen slave?

Infuriated because Amenes refuses to hand over the slave

to Theonis, the Ethiopians are departing.

Fourth Act

...and all of this because of a foreign girl!

Are you aware that you're bringing your country

into a war?

...and all of this because of a slave!

No, because of a Queen.

Bless her!

The Queen will be shown to the people.

Don't you want to come to go see her?

Long live the Queen!

War! The Ethiopians are crossing the country scorching and killing.

Before going off to war against the Ethiopians,

Amenes asks Theonis for a vow of fidelity.

She refuses when she hears that Ramphis and the

prisoners escaped from the stone pit.

The Pharaoh, who has to give up hope for her love,

has her being fixed into the walls of the Treasury,

and Sothis, who knows the secret gate, will be blinded.

Father!

What's the value of a person's eyes,

when a King is worrying about his wife?

The wife, who's responsible for your blindness, must die.

Fifth Act

The King doesn't want to be disordered.

If you want to see Theonis alive,

do not humiliate her, she is my wife.

Forgive me that I want to save you.

I stand before you so pure, as I am leaving you.

Where is the King?

We don't have any accurate news yet.

King Amenes is dead.

If you deliberately extradite the Queen, King Samlak

will pardon you. Otherwise the city will be destroyed,

and the population will be exterminated.

The Queen should decide herself.

In your hands is the fate of the people. Make a choice.

Bring me to King Samlak.

Only a coward will hand over the Queen to the Barbarians.

Sixth Act

The judgement of the dead on King Amenes.

The dead Kings body has been stolen by the enemy!

These are his remnants.

We judge the dead according to our customs.

He was strict but fair!

Anyone accusing the dead of an evil deed,

please stand up.

Anyone who has something to say in favor of the dead,

please come forward.

No exception, Queen Theonis, for your sake...

Amenes, you are guilty, no grievance about you.

Your name will be obliterated forever.

Let's leave this place, now that I'm free.

You aren't free. You have the duty to heal the wounds

of your people. They are suffering because of you.

The power is in your hands now to choose

for your people a righteous King

Please save the people from another Tyran

and choose the most worthy King.

Who do you think is most worthy?

He is your King!

You are the hope of the people.

It is your holy duty...

The Egyptians are celebrating the new King.

Don't you know me, your King Amenes?

This fool imagines he is King Amenes!

Where is Theonis?

Are you lamenting me?

Who is your King?

I claim my wife!

The King too is subjected to the commandments of the Gods.

Give me Theonis!

He betrayed you for the woman's sake.

Our man have been slaughtered

for the sake of this woman.

Stone them!

Spare them!

Amenes begs the people to spare Theonis, to no avail.

He also begs them to kill him as well.

Instead, he again is crowned Pharaoh.

With the crown on his head, he falls dead from the throne.