Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo

At a glance

Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo, is a 2011 French movie, directed by Wael Shawky. with a runtime of 45 minutes.

Overview

In this installment of Cabaret Crusades, which covers the 46 years from the end of the First Crusade, in 1099, to the beginning of the Second Crusade, in 1147, a cast of more than a hundred 200-year-old string marionettes from the Lupi collection in Turin enact Shawky’s highly original approach to staging and filming history; the puppets represent actual historical figures, and the project was filmed entirely in a church in Aubagne according to a cinematic shot breakdown.

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