Antigone
1992 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany
Based on a translate to german by Friedrich Hölderlin of texts by Sofokles and Bertold Brecht. Antigone, daughter to Oedipus, opposes tyrant of Thebes, Creon's edict that her brother Polynice's body remain unburied, because he had betrayed the city. She secretly buries the body but is arrested and condemned to be shut away in a cave. Haemon, Creon's son and Antigone's fiancŽé, objects to his father's decision and curses him. The gods ultimately turn against Creon, who is informed that Haemon committed suicide at the feet of the hanged Antigone.
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Astrid Ofner · Ursula Ofner · Albert Hetterle · Stephan Wolf-Schönburg · Lars Studer · Werner Rehm
Screenplay Friedrich Hölderlin · Sofocles · Bertolt Brecht
Cinematography William Lubtchansky
Original title Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948. Suhrkamp Verlag
7.4
171 votes (FilmAffinity)
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