A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him.
Direction
Straub-Huillet's brutal refusal of comfort or compromise.
Acting
Ofner's voice carries 24 centuries of accumulated rage.
Writing
Sophocles' text, uncut, landing like a lawsuit against power.
Director
Jean-Marie Straub
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Straub-Huillet filmed in Sicily's ancient Greek theatres, using the actual landscape where democracy and tragedy were born.
They insisted actors speak Brecht's German translation while standing on Italian soil—layers of distance that force you to think, not feel.
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