Next year, Lambayeque expects to receive tourists from Spain, France, and Italy. "Mainly from Central Europe countries, in addition to Asia and the United States, of course," he said.

The documentary has been already distributed through the National Geographic magazine Spain edition, which sold nearly 250,000 copies. This means there is a good percentage of people who already know something about it," he stated.

The documentary includes real images taken during the excavation works carried out at Huaca Rajada, in the district of  Zaña (Lambayeque).

The Lord of Sipan, a film about an ancient Moche ruler from northern Peru, premiered on May 10 on Peruvian state-run TV Peru (Channel 7).

The documentary was co-produced by Spanish filmmakers Jose Manuel Novoa, Pedro Almodóvar and his brother Agustín as well as film director and archaeologist Walter Alva, who discovered the Royal Tombs of Sipan at the Huaca Rajada complex in 1987.

The documentary mixes archival footage with the reconstruction of historical settings including commentaries from experts such as Walter Alva.

Peruvian actors in this film include Reynaldo Arenas playing the Lord of Sipan, Monica Sanchez as the priestess, Augusto Varillas and more than 200 local people who participated as extras.

The Lord of Sipán (El Señor de Sipán) is a mummy found in Sipán by Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva in 1987. The tomb is in Sipán's Huaca Rajada, an area in Chiclayo.

It is a Moche culture site in Peru. Some archaeologists hold it to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries in this region of the world in the last 30 years, because the main tomb was found intact and untouched by thieves.

Sipán is located in the northern part of Peru, close to the coast, in the middle of the Lambayeque Valley, 35 km east of Chiclayo, Peru. Four tombs have been found in Sipán's Huaca Rajada, a mausoleum built by the Moche culture that ruled the northern coast of Peru from around 1 AD to 700 AD.

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