Die Spur der Tempelräuber (The Stolen Warriors)

Documentaries
Resource theme: 
Traffic of works of art, antiques, ancient documents and natural specimens
Looting of archaeological objects
Resource type: 
Video / Audio - Documentaries
Author: 
Wolfgang Luck
Editor: 
Eva Witte, SWR/ARTE
Date: 
2014
Pages / Length: 
52'02"
Language of publication: 
German, French, English

A production by luckfilm (www.luckfilm.de)

Looting of Cambodian Temples during the Cambodian Civil War.

A documentary about the theft of a statue from the temple of Koh Ker in 1972, which was part of a group of sandstone figures. The entire group had been looted, commissioned by international smuggeling networks....

French title: A la poursuite des pilleurs de temples.