Antigone

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)