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Antigone / BBC TV co-production in association with Bioscope Inc. ; producer, Louis Marks ; directed by Don Taylor.
LIBRA VHS PA4414 .A72 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Sophocles. BBC TV Sophocles (London, England)
- Sophocles. 2002 (Bioscope Inc.) Works.
- Theban plays ; v.3
- Theban plays ; v.3.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sophocles--Film adaptations.
- Sophocles.
- Greek drama (Tragedy).
- Antigone (Mythological character)--Drama.
- Antigone.
- Antigone (Mythological character).
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (111 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, distributor, [2002]
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- Presents the third of the three Theban plays by Sophocles in a contemporary translation that remains true to the text, setting the plays in the past yet not the distant past and dispensing with the masks. This final segment of the trilogy centers around the conflict between moral and political law, as the tale of Oedipus and his family comes to a tragic end.
- Participant:
- Juliet Stevenson (Antigone), John Shrapnel (Creon), John Gielgud, Gwen Taylor.
- Credits:
- Camera supervisor, John Dailley ; editor, Dave Hambelton ; music, Derek Bourgeois ; classical adviser, Geoffrey Lewis ; a new translation by Don Taylor.
- Notes:
- Antigona by Sophocles.
- Originally released in 1984.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 52488120
- Publisher Number:
- 20601861
- FFH1320 Films for the Humanities
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