[2] Lubitsch is thought to have made The Loves of Pharaoh to show Hollywood that he could make an epic.

Bakels spent five years on the digital restoration; the Munich Film Museum did the reconstruction.

The complete version of The Loves of Pharaoh had been lost, so restoration had to be done from parts of the film that had been found in various countries.

The Russian footage lasted only 55 minutes and was missing all the scenes dealing with love and emotion.

The restoration extended the Russian version with footage from an Italian nitrate print of Pharaoh that the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, had acquired in 1998.

To this was added other footage, and the title cards, which had turned up during the Munich Film Museum's restoration work on another movie.

When Ramphis tries to kiss Theonis, she playfully runs away toward the treasury, unaware that the penalty to approach the place is death.

Theonis rejects him, but seeing Ramphis about to be crushed underneath a gigantic stone slab, she gives in.

Amenes commutes Ramphis's sentence to a life working in the quarries; the prisoner is told that Theonis has been executed.

Theonis, apprised of the situation, decides to give herself up, but instead, Ramphis rallies the soldiers and prepares an ambush, having the army hide in and around the treasury, and lets Samlak break down the gates and enter the city.

When the couple leave the palace, the mob turns on them, stoning them to death, despite Amenes's attempt to stop it.