‘Queen Cleopatra’ accused of historical inaccuracies, Egypt to produce its own documentary

Since the announcement of the release of ‘Queen Cleopatra’, a Netflix original documentary series, the streaming giant has been embroiled in controversy due to its portrayal of the ancient Egyptian ruler, which has caused several well-known Egyptian historians to point out that the platform was badly dramatizing the former ruler.

The biggest controversy arose when the official trailer for this film was released. Netflix Docuseriesdue to the ancient queen’s dark skin color in the depiction on this platform, while Egyptian historians have pointed out that “Queen Cleopatra” was actually light-skinned, making this production historically inaccurate.

now a The Egyptian government-owned television channel has been embroiled in the controversy surrounding it ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Netflixsince it has announced that it will be producing its own documentary series in response to the platform, so the controversy surrounding this May-released production is far from over.

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It’s worth mentioning that no further information has been provided at this time about the style this will have. new documentary about ‘Queen Cleopatra’ made in egyptor when this production dealing with the life of the ruler of the ancient world will be released, what is a fact is that the Netflix version is one of the productions that has generated the most controversy.

For her part, Tina Gharavi, director of ‘Queen Cleopatra’, has already expressed his opinion on this controversy and decided to defend the streaming giant, since he commented that the actress chosen to dramatize the ancient ruler is more like ancient Africans, so he doesn’t understand why the fury of the Egyptian people.

It’s not the first controversy Netflix has with its documentaries

This is worth mentioning in the past Netflix has been accused of being inaccurate in its documentary storiesfor which other controversies have already been addressed, it must be remembered that a great controversy has been generated in the Middle East with the ‘History 101’ series, this as far as this production has shown about the origin of peoples in the aforementioned region of the world.

Even series that are not documentaries have filled Netflix with controversy on the same situation, such as ‘The Crown’, a title that is inspired by true events of the British royal family, and it is precisely the royalty of England who express their indignation about what the platform presents in its dramatization to the subscribers.