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À la Poursuite des Pilleurs de Temples
À la Poursuite des Pilleurs de Temples

À la Poursuite des Pilleurs de Temples

4.5/10

0hr 00mins

Country:FR

2014

Documentary
Spoken Languages: Français

Overview:

In 1972, during Cambodia's civil war, a sandstone statue was torn from the age-old Koh Ker temple. Measuring 1.58m high and weighing 110 kilos, it depicts a prince and belongs to a collection that retraces the epic of the Mahabharata. The sculpture was first sold at auction in London in 1975, via a strange British art dealer based in Bangkok, and reappeared in 2011 at Sotheby's in New York with a bid of $2.5 million. A sale that was ultimately prohibited. In the meantime, experts from the École française d'Extrême-Orient, an American lawyer commissioned by Phnom Penh and UNESCO mobilized the Heritage Police across the Atlantic to denounce the theft of a cultural asset. In 2013, the work was returned to Cambodia. A captivating investigation into the international mafia of antiquities trafficking.

Budget

$0.00

Production companies

SWR

Genre

Documentary

Runtime

0hr 00mins

Rating

4.5/10

Release Date

2014-09-02

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