Antigone/Rites of Passion

Oct 31, 1990

1h 25m

★ 0.0

Overview

This first feature by Amy Greenfield brings to the screen the story of the daughter of Oedipus in an emotionally relentless, visually stunning New Music Film Opera which challenges the conventions of narrative cinema to create a genre of its own. The 2500-year-old drama of the woman who defied the state to bury her brother is transformed through stark, ceaseless movement, haunting sounds and music (including themes from Glen Branca, David Van Tieghem, Elliot Sharp and Diamanda Galas) and words of outcry against our own world's injustice.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Eclipse Productions

Antigone/Rites of Passion Trailers

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Cast

Haemon & Polynices (voice)

Alan Howard

Oedipus

Bertram Ross

Ismene

Janet Eilber

Antigone

Amy Greenfield

Polynices

Henry Montes

Eteocles

Silvio Facchin

Guard

Boris McGiver

Guard

Eric Villani

Guard

Robert Lochren

Guard

Rick Gioia

Guard

Kenneth Maudlin

Ismene (voice)

Maeve Kinkead

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