| Description |
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert. |
| System Details |
DVD, NTSC; Region 1; Dolby Digital; widescreen format (1.66:1 aspect ratio). |
| Cast |
Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas, Patrick Magee, Brian Blessed. |
| Credits |
Photography, Alfio Contini ; music, Mikis Theodorakis. |
| Note |
Based on the play by Euripides; English version by Edith Hamilton. |
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DVD release of the 1971 motion picture. |
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Special features: Michael Cacoyannis filmography; theatrical trailer; stills gallery; director's note on insert. |
| Summary |
After the Greek victory in the Trojan War, all the Trojan warriors and princes are slain and the women and children are left to be divided among the conquerors. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will and despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers that her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. In the end, it is the enduring dignity and unfaltering strength of Hecuba, widowed queen of Troy, that makes cowards of Troy's captors. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Euripides -- Film adaptations.
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Hecuba (Legendary character) -- Drama.
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Cassandra (Legendary character) -- Drama.
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Andromache (Legendary character) -- Drama.
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Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) -- Drama.
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Trojan War -- Drama.
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Troy (Extinct city) -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Cacoyannis, Michael. Screenwriter. Producer. Director.
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Nohra, Anis. Producer.
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Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003. Actor.
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Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- Actor.
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Bujold, Geneviève. Actor.
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Papas, Irene. Actor.
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Magee, Patrick. Actor.
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Blessed, Brian. Actor.
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Euripides.
Trojan women.
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Josef Shaftel Productions.
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Kino International Corporation.
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| Standard No. |
738329037628 |
| Music No. |
K376 Kino |
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