Orleans' 1000-Year-Old-Cold-Case (52')
ORLEANS’ 1000-YEAR-OLD COLD CASE (52')
INFORMATION
FR / December 2024 / 52’ / HD / French, English
Ma Drogue A Moi / France Televisions
Worldwide rights available
TAGS
Femicide, exclusivity
SYNOPSIS
Orléans, in October 2019, three skeletons were discovered during work carried out in the city centre. Two of them were sitting in a pit, while the third was kneeling. All three had their hands tied behind their backs. Laure Ziegler, an anthropologist and archaeologist at the city's archaeological centre, was immediately put in charge of the excavations. She was soon able to make the bones speak for themselves: they were those of three women who had died in the Middle Ages and were probably buried alive. But who are they? Why and by whom were they killed? Why were their skeletons found so far from the town's cemetery, which is so ancient and rich in medieval burials? For Laure Ziegler, it's the start of an extraordinary archaeological investigation, a nine-century-old cold case and sole cases that bear witness to the execution of women in the Middle Ages.