Princess of the Nile (series)



Princess of the Nile (Princesse du Nil) is a French animated series that draws on the mysteries of ancient Egypt and offers an mix of adventure and romance.

Production
Claude Berthier, then-president and CEO of Marina Productions, takes a vacation tour of Egypt and is struck by the images and inherent symbolism that remain of the ancient civilization that existed on the banks of the Nile. He returns to France convinced that Marina should develop an animated series to help educate children about the wonders of ancient Egypt.

Marina learns that TF1 has partnered with animation company Dupuis to develop their own Egyptian-themed series based on the popular French comic book Papyrus. Berthier orders that steps be taken to eliminate similarities between the two properties.

'We decided to go for a more realistic, less stylized approach in our animation than we saw in the Papyrus comic,' says Wendy Griffiths, Marina’s vice president of animation production and executive producer of Princess of the Nile. "We also shifted the time period back to the time of Ramses II because it was a very rich period in history."

Episodes
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