71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Milan has become a deserted and spectral city; the streets and squares are sown with corpses. The military, equipped for war, are present everywhere, and people walk unperturbed without repairing lifeless bodies. The authorities have ordered that the bodies of dissidents and rebels be exposed in the streets to serve as an example and that another rebellion will not occur again. Antigone is a young woman from the bourgeois family who has lost her brother during the riots. And it revolts, indignantly, against the prohibition of burying the dead. However, nobody wants to help her, nor her relatives, nor her boyfriend Hemón, son of one of the most influential politicians in the country: they all abide by the orders emanating from power. But Antigone meets Tiresias, a young foreigner who speaks a language she doesn't understand, but is willing to help her.

Director
Liliana Cavani (Italy)
Screenplay
Liliana Cavani, Italo Moscati, Fabrizio Onofri
Plot
Sófocles (obra)
Photography
Giulio Albonico
Edition
Nino Baragli
Music
Ennio Morricone
Cast
Pierre Clémenti, Britt Ekland, Tomas Milian, Francesco Leonetti, Delia Boccardo
Running Time
95 m.
Country
Italy
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