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Antigone

FromJEAN-MARIE STRAUB/DANIÈLE HUILLET

WithASTRID OFNER, URSULA OFNER, LIBGART SCHWARZ, WERNER REHM, LARS STUDER

Year1992

Duration99min.

Sophocles' Antigone adapted for the stage by Bert Brecht after Hölderlin's translation. Staged by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub in Berlin and made into a film in the ancient Roman theatre of Segesta in Sicily. These are the layers of a text and its realisation, which are revealed in the film with the utmost urgency and uncanny presence: an explosion of chaos, beauty and destruction in the bright sunlight in front of the empty tiers of the amphitheatre. In the summer of the first American attack on Iraq. A lesson in civil disobedience. Peter Handke: ‘For me, Straub's cinema and ancient Greek drama are almost identical in form [...] pure theatre and film drama.’ (red)