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Antigone
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Straub and Huillet bring Bertolt Brecht’s Antigone to an ancient theater in Sicily, with the complete play performed on film.
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- In person
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- Metrograph, 7 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002, Manhattan, New York City
About this event
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet film Bertolt Brecht’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone in the ruins of a Greek theater at Segesta, Sicily. Antigone’s defiance of King Creon unfolds through the complete performance of Brecht’s text.
Metrograph presents the German-language film on 35mm as part of Classical Cinema. Running time: 100 minutes. Tickets through Metrograph.
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German-language Straub–Huillet adaptation of Brecht’s Antigone.