In 1991, the French director duo Straub-Huyere brought Sophocles' Greek tragedy "Antigone" to the screen. The text adopted the famous translation by t[Expand All]
In 1991, the French director duo Straub-Huyere brought Sophocles' Greek tragedy "Antigone" to the screen. The text adopted the famous translation by the German romantic poet Holderling, while the version was based on Brecht's adaptation in the 1940s. The shooting location was the ruins of an ancient Roman theater in Segesta, Sicily, and the weather was bright during the shooting. The multi-layered thickness of the text behind the film endows it with an extremely strong sense of immediality: in the summer of the shooting year, the US military launched the first round of offensive against Iraq. This is a work about educating citizens about disobedience.[Collapse]
