Antigone
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- Runtime
- 116 mins
Having defied the ban on Creon and offered a burial to Polynice, her treacherous homeland brother, Antigone is condemned to a slow death in a stone tomb, despite the interposition of Hémon, her fiance, the son of Creon . Nevertheless, Creon ends up following the advice of his diviner Tiresias and, fearing the wrath of the gods, buries Polynices with dignity. When he is about to free Antigone, the young woman had already hanged herself. Mad with pain, Hémon commits suicide by his side.
Having defied the ban on Creon and offered a burial to Polynice, her treacherous homeland brother, Antigone is condemned to a slow death in a stone tomb, despite the interposition of Hémon, her fiance, the son of Creon . Nevertheless, Creon ends up following the advice of his diviner Tiresias and, fearing the wrath of the gods, buries Polynices with dignity. When he is about to free Antigone, the young woman had already hanged herself. Mad with pain, Hémon commits suicide by his side.
Cast
- Barbara Schulz
- Robert Hossein
- Bernard Dhéran
- Pierre Dourlens
- Julie Kapour
- Elsa Mollien
- Julien Mulot
- Bruno Henry
- Claudia Fanni
- Dominique Roncero
- David Loyola
Director
- Nicolas Briançon
Producers
- Magatte Cissokho
- Pascal Peyrou
- Loïc Haroche
- Jacques Legré
- Corinne Legrand
- Marika Gerone
- Caroline Tesquier
- Philippe Jousserand
