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The Project
Guédelon is both a construction site and an open-air museum. The roughly 200,000 visitors each year finance the project with their entrance fees. With the exception of the 47 employees, who are all paid union rates, the association has practically no further costs because the building materials are all found and processed on the premises. In the beginning, people laughed about the project, but in the meantime, Guédelon has the overwhelming support of leading French historians, art historians and architects as a long-term scientific experiment. Guédelon is more than just another a Living-History-Project, because everybody is a professional. The castle is reality! The Documentaries Reinhard Kungel Film Production has followed the construction work exclusively from the very beginning. RK-Film has already produced two different 45-minute documentaries for ARTE/ZDF and WDR. Production Standard until 2004 was Digital Betacam. Since 2005 we are shooting in HD.
 »Let's construct a Knight's Castle« gets a Honorary Mention at the 8th International Archeology Film-Art-Festival Kiel
Reinhard Kungels »Let's construct a Knight's Castle« succeeded in getting a Honorary Mention at the 8th International Archeologiy Film-Art-Festival Kiel in April. The Jury notes: Reenactment und experimentelle Archäologie sind in aller Munde – unsere Dokudramen sind meist übervoll davon. Auch unsere erste "lobende Erwähnung" kommt ohne dieses Zeitreise-Rezept nicht aus. Doch geht es diesmal um weit mehr als die Rekonstruktion einer anderen Zeit. Aus der Perspektive zweier Kinder wird auf unterhaltsame Art das Können mittelalterlicher Handwerker demonstriert. Schön verfilmt und intelligent kommentiert entsteht vor unseren Augen eine alte Burg in unserer Zeit – und das ist nicht nur lehrreich für Kinder.
Contact for Professionals As a professional in film/tv you are interested in the documentaries? Please send a mail to: rk@rk-film.de For more information about Guédelon we recommend:
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While visiting the Guédelon building site near Saint-Sauveur in Burgundy, France, one not only experiences one of the world’s most unusual construction sites, one also becomes a “time-traveler” catapulted back into the middle ages. A medieval castle is being built in the forest of Saint-Sauveur. What makes this site unique? This construction is under way using 700-year-old techniques. It’s all about craftsmanship. No bulldozers, no trucks, not even electric drills. A very impressive scenario; 47 people in historical clothing working on a gargantuan project, slated for completion in 2025. 
