The Trojan Women (1971)

Directed by

Michalis Cacoyannis

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After the fall of Troy, the women of the royal family wait in a camp to be taken as slaves by the victorious Greeks. The film follows their grief and rage as they face losing their city and their freedom.

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What happens

The Trojan Women (Greek: Τρωάδες) is a 1971 American-British-Greek historical drama film directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold and Irene Papas. The film was made with the minimum of changes to Edith Hamilton's translation of Euripides' original play, save for the omission of deities, as Cacoyannis said they were "hard to film and make realistic". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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