Champollion: A Scribe for Egypt (French: Champollion, un scribe pour l'Égypte; German: Jean-François Champollion und die Hieroglyphen) is a 2000 documentary film adapted from French Egyptologist 's nonfiction book of the same name. Directed by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky, and co-produced by Trans Europe Film, La Sept-Arte, Éditions Gallimard and Louvre Museum, with voice-over narration by French actors Françoise Fabian and Jean-Hugues Anglade, the film retraces step by step the passionate journey that led Jean-François Champollion to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.