It is 7:45 p.m. this Friday, May 2 when, towards the end of the film, more than half of the room begins to scream by applauding: the owl was well in Dabo, this small village of Moselle surrounded by black and disturbing forests. Buried under these lathe plowed for thirty years by generations of owners … which therefore missed the volatile. Who surely came close to him with a shovel, worked on it, solo, family, couple, day and night for three decades. Worse: the beast was even a few meters from the final spot identified by most players from the first months of hunting in 1993: the Saint-Martin terminal, located less than 3 kilometers from the village.
In the MK2 quai de Loire room in Paris, the atmosphere is electric. Because it is not just a documentary that is projected on the screen. For many, it is the commitment of a whole life that ends this evening, with the revelation of the solutions of one of the oldest treasure hunts in the world: the golden owl. Buried on the night of April 23 to 24, 1993 by the late Max Valentin, a few weeks before the publication of a work bringing together the eleven puzzles in front
