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Greece-Movies

Films based on the work of Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus

Medea, a 1959 video directed by Jose Quintero, Actors: Judith Anderson, Colleen Dewhurst as the Chorus Leader; translation 'freely adapted' by Robinson Jeffers.

 

Antigone with Irene Papas

Antigone, by Sophocles: 1960 film with Irene Papas in the title role, in Greek with English subtitles.

Antigone 1974, Gerald Freedman. Broadway Theater Archive

Oedipus Rex, 1967 Pier Paolo Pasolini, with Sylvana Mangano as Jocasta and Franco Citti as Oedipus

Oedipus Rex , 1957 Abraham Polonsky, Tyrone Guthrie. Stage Recording of Oedipus Rex with actors^wearing masks like the ancient Greeks .

The Trojan Women, Michael Cacoyannis, with Katherine Hepburn as Hecuba, Genevieve Bujold as Cassandra, Vanessa Redgrave as Andromahe, and Irene Papas as Helen.

Medea, a Paolo Pasolini film with Maria Callas in the title role.

Electra, film by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas, based on Euripides.

Mythology

Films about Iliad and Troy

Helena (1924)
Helen of Troy (1956) , Stanley Baker (Achilles)
Arturo Dominici (Achilles) , La Guerra di Troia(1962)
Achilles (Channel Four Television) (1995), Derek Jacobi [voice] (Achilles)
La Belle Hélène (TV, 1996) Steve Davislim (Achilles)
Helen of Troy (TV, 2003) , Joe Montana (Achilles)
Troy (2004) , Brad Pitt (Achilles)

Films about the Odyssey

Ulysses (1954)
Ulysses (1967)
The Odyssey (1997)

Other

 

Clash of the Titans (1981)
My Fair Lady (1964)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Orphée (Orpheus) (1950)

Hercules (a very large)

Hercules (1959)
Hercules in New York (or Hercules Goes Bananas) (1970)

Hercules (1997)

The many faces of Hercules in Film (including the Governor of California as Hercules in New York) (A real image of Hercules in New York)

The Argonauts

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Jason and the Argonauts (2000)

Cleopatra

Films about the Greek Queen of Egypt Clepatra VII

Antony and Cleopatra (1908) with Florence Lawrence as Cleopatra.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, starring Helen Gardner (1912).

Cleopatra (1917):: Theda Bara (Cleopatra), Fritz Leiber (Caesar), Thurston Hall (Antony). Directed by J. Gordon Edwards. Based on Émile Moreau's play Cléopatre, Sardou's play Cléopatre, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

Cleopatra (1934): Claudette Colbert (Cleopatra), Warren William (Caesar), Henry Wilcoxon (Antony). Oscar-winning Cecil B. DeMille epic.

Caesar and Cleopatra (1946): Vivien Leigh (Cleopatra), Claude Rains (Caesar), Stewart Granger, Flora Robson — Oscar-nominated version of George Bernard Shaw's play. Leigh also played Cleopatra opposite then-husband's Laurence Olivier's Caesar in a later London stage version.

Cleopatra (1963): Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra), Rex Harrison (Caesar), Richard Burton (Antony). Oscar-winning block-buster most (in)famously remembered for the off-screen affair between Taylor and Burton. In 1964, Carry On Cleo spoofed this, with Amanda Barrie as Cleopatra, and Sid James as Mark Antony.

Antony & Cleopatra (1974): performed by London's Royal Shakespeare Company. Starred Janet Suzman (Cleopatra), Richard Johnson (Antony), and Patrick Stewart (Enobarbus).

Cleopatra (1999): Leonor Varela (Cleopatra), Timothy Dalton (Caesar), Billy Zane (Antony). Based on the book Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George

More about Cleopatra Movies

Alexander the Great

Alexander, Oliver Stone :German Version / Deutsche Version

Alexander, The Oliver Stone Movie , Images from the Film

The Alexander Movie: How are Iranians and Greeks Portrayed

Some obvious (artistic?) errors of the Stone Film

Music

Oedipus Rex - Stravisnsky, Jessye Norman, Seji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Opera Orchestra , Release 14 June 2005

Alexander, the Oliver Stone Movie

ANCIENT GREECE IN THE CINEMA. a filmography , List of films

Ancient History in the Movies

See also

Medieval History in the Movies

Cinemythology - Greek Myths and Literature in World Cinema A tribute to Greek myths in cinema

Modern Greece

Films, Directors, Actors

 

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