Antigone

Story

Synopsis

With fierce originality, this powerful adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honor, treachery and fateful consequences. Acclaimed actress Genevieve Bujold skillfully combines elements of zealotry and idealism in her affecting portrait of Antigone. Jean Anouilh's retelling of "Antigone" stages the inescapably wrenching central confrontation between Antigone and Creon by presenting Bujold and Fritz Weaver seated at a long, executive-suite table--a hallmark of Anouilh's play.

Director

Stellio Lorenzi

Writers

Sophocles

Language

French

Country

France

Release date

21 December 1974

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Jean Topart

  Créon

• 

  Alain Cuny

  Le Coryphée

• 

  Marie-Hélène Breillat

  Antigone

• 

  Sacha Pitoëff

  Tiresias

• Claude Leblond

  le messager

• Régine Teyssot

  Ismène

• Bernard Malaterre

  Hemon

• 

  Paul Bonifas

  le choeur

• Madeleine Vimes

  Eurydice

• André Bonnafis

  Polynice

• Nicolas Jovanic

  Eteole

• Jean Galtat

  Le maître d'armes