This action documentary film will unveil the 11 puzzles of this treasure hunt that lasted over thirty years.
More than thirty years after the start of the enigma of the golden owl, the mystery ends. While the object hidden on April 24, 1993 was found last October, all the secrets of this treasure hunt are preparing to be revealed in a film entitled The discovery of the golden owlbroadcast this Friday evening and Saturday at the cinema (find here the card that lists the 400 sessions available). All the details of the history of this quest will be revealed in this action and adventure documentary, from its creation to discover the owl and its location.
The treasure hunt had been launched in 1993 by the French Régis Hauser, alias Max Valentin, when the latter buried the countermark of a gold in gold worth around 150,000 euros in an unknown place in France, by publishing a book of eleven puzzles illustrated by the painter Michel Becker. Since then, a community of owners and owls has federated around the search for this treasure, before it was digested last fall.
The film features the discoverers of the Treasury, two people living abroad. One owner for over 20 years, the other more recent. Michel Becker, the co-organizer of the game, should also appear on the screen. “The film unties each of the knots and pulls the thread. But it is also a tribute to the owners “said director Alexandre Largeron, on BFMTV. The word is indeed given to eight owners who have devoted years of their life to this quest. “The great gold, for them, is not a simple board game, it goes far beyond. Like Indiana Jones, it is a taste for adventure and a kind of horizon ”he greeted.
“We had to do a faultless course”
This Friday evening, in dark rooms, the owners of the whole world will therefore have the key to the mystery and will discover the solutions of the 11 puzzles, promised Michel Becker at the microphone of Franceinfo this Friday. These puzzles were “Skilful texts with well -chosen words. It was Max Valentin’s work my co-author. Each text of each enigma was associated with a painting that I have painted and in which there is a certain number of elements in correlation with the enigma ”he explained.
-To find the solution, “We had to do a faultless course”he recognized before announcing, with a touch of fun, that when the owners and owners discover the undersea of the enigma, “They will understand that the hunt was ultimately quite simple”. “It is a real novel that was written over 30 years, there have been a lot of adventures but the hunt itself which had been designed at the start was quite simple to perceive”he continued.
The film will also reveal the location of the golden owl. Could it be in the village of Dabo (Moselle), the town of Saint-Just-D’Avray (Rhône) or in Bourges (Cher), as many owners suspect? Michel Becker refuses to give more details. Because it is a secret “Very well kept. Even the families of the winners are not aware of ”assured the co-organizer of the game on BFMTV.
New treasure hunt
Faced with the craze around this treasure hunt, the organizers decided to extend the pleasure of the owners by launching a new quest. “A community has federated around this hunt. I received messages in which they explained to me that what they were more interested in the quest than in the treasure itself. No one wants it to stop ”says Michel Becker. Thus, at the end of the film, a new enigma will be revealed at the end of the documentary.
“The new golden owl will fly away exactly where the first was buried, from April 24”, He said in a video posted on YouTube last fall, 32 years, night for night, after the burial of the first treasure. “The experience of the first owl will serve for the second”which should start at the end of the summer, he said on Franceinfo, while reassuring that the research time will be much shorter: “We hope for a duration between 3 and 6 years. We worked for. “
The value of this new owl will also be much more important. “From 250 to 300,000 euros”warned Michel Becker, proudly explaining that the house of goldsmith Christofle was at the origin of his conception. And this time, to find the loot, the owners will have to explore the land beyond French borders since hunting is open internationally.
