Gilgamesh  Synopsis.

For brief historical background of Gilgamesh click Gilgamesh Note.

Gilgamesh is an original screenplay inspired by a 5000  year-old Mesopotamian epic etched on mud bricks. 

If you are looking for a script with the typical structure, characters, dialogs  and single theme of the spectacular action-packed film, of the 'triumph of good over evil', this script is not for you.

Gilgamesh is a poetic legend, meant more for adults than kids, about several themes: the joy of friendship, platonic love between man and man, the ecstasy of sex and love; the grief of loss and death; sensual/erotic love between man and woman; an odyssey in search of the meaning of Life; and man’s first quest for Immortality.

Moreover, in a fascinating story within a story, it’s the first account of The Flood, more than 1000 years before strikingly similar Flood in both the Bible and later in the Quran. (Which Flood discovery by British archeologist George Smith in late 1800 prompted him to hop around naked in exhilaration at the British Museum!)

Long ago, in a time of magic, there lived in Mesopotamia a very handsome, young king named Gilgamesh who ruled over Uruk- a magnificent city surrounded with Wide Walls by the river Euphrates. His father’s dying words to young Gilgamesh were:..

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