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Antigone
(Antigoni)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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SophocIes' immortaI tragedy Antigone receives a definitive cinematic interpretation in this 1961 fiIm. lrene Papas (Z, The Trojan Women, The Guns Of Navarone) heads a cast of over 500 actors of the Greek stage and screen, joined by soldiers and horsemen of the Greek Royal Guard. Performing in the original Greek, Papas and, in particuIar, Manos Katrakis as the tyrannical Theban King Creon, embody Sophocles' timeIess themes with earthy conviction and irresistible passion.
ln the aftermath of a bloody civiI war that fataIly pitted both her brothers against each other, Antigone (Papas), daughter of Oedipus, picks through the carnage outside the gates of Thebes in search of her faIlen sibIings' bodies. Vowing to bury both men, Antigone defies a direct edict from Thebes ' King Creon that Antigone's rebeI brother remain unsanctioned for having led the insurrection. Antigone's defiance of Creon and devotion to her shattered family divides the city of Thebes, threatens her sister's betrothal to Creon's son and invokes the wrath of a king willing to defy the gods themseIves to satisfy his selfish vengeance. But by condemning Antigone, Creon unwittingly doomed himself to a sentence far crueler than any punishment he couId infIict on his enemies.
WhiIe remaining faithful to the original text, director Georges TzaveIIas interprets Antigone as an intimate bIack and white epic that recalIs Orsen WeIles' Macbeth and Laurence OIiver's fiImed Hamlet. As relevant now as it was in the fourth century BC, Antigone's riche tapestry, Iove and fate comes vividIy to Iife in this superior fiIm adaption. |
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