Theban Plays: Antigone (1986)

9.0/10 • 111 min • Drama

Overview

In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.

Cast

Juliet Stevenson

Gwen Taylor

Patrick Barr

Paul Daneman

Robert Eddison

Ewan Hooper

Peter Jeffrey

Robert Lang

Chorus

John Woodnutt

John Shrapnel

Tony Selby

Mike Gwilym

John Gielgud

Bernard Hill

Rosalie Crutchley

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