Antigone

Name: Antigone
Genre: Drama
Released: 1974-12-21
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Jean Topart, Alain Cuny, Marie-Hélène Breillat

TV Movie
1972
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

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Drama

With fierce originality, this powerful adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honor, treachery and fateful consequences. Acclaimed actress Genevieve Bujold skillfully combin... Read allWith fierce originality, this powerful adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honor, treachery and fateful consequences. Acclaimed actress Genevieve Bujold skillfully combines elements of zealotry and idealism in her affecting portrait of Antigone. Jean Anouilh's... Read allWith fierce originality, this powerful adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honor, treachery and fateful consequences. Acclaimed actress Genevieve Bujold skillfully combines elements of zealotry and idealism in her affecting portrait of Antigone. Jean Anouilh's retelling of "Antigone" stages the inescapably wrenching central confrontation between An... Read all

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7.7/10

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Top-notch Antigone via Jean Anouilh

I saw this television production when it first aired on PBS in 1973, and soon after was able to get a dvd version offered by Broadway Theatre Archive. First of all, ignore most of the information in the entry for this production; somehow the credits (actors, writers, language) belong in some other film or play's entry. Geneviève Bujold is a spitfire Antigone, and Fritz Weaver plays a by-the-book executive politician Creon. Stacy Keach leads the Chorus. The play, of course, needs no praise from me, but Anouilh has long been a favorite of mine; I'll watch anything he has ever written with his ability to bring acid wit to universal moral issues. Definitely worth your time. It was once offered on the Kultur website, but seems to have disappeared. May be available on a Region 2 but perhaps also from a streaming service.