Antigone
1961 · 93 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 940 VOTES · DIR. Yorgos Tzavellas
Overview
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...
Dialogue Timeline — 1,247 lines
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00:04:01 My sister lsmene, accursed twin
00:07:19 Poor thing. What drives you to drive down to destruction
00:11:41 For Thebes is crowned with laurel
00:15:07 I want him to be left with no tomb, unburied
00:18:28 that something holy has happened here?
00:22:17 He traps and hunts the gently fashioned birds
00:26:05 our eyes, because a sudden
00:29:17 Therefore I ask you: since you did it in secret
00:32:56 It will fall by dissension, devoured by the invaders?
00:36:44 But now Ismene comes
00:41:22 rotting away, they earned their living by weaving; each winter
00:45:20 are readily forgiven, and so we often
00:48:59 gushes past all the tress, how all those that
00:52:12 who is not afraid and makes you tremble.
00:56:37 into this death chamber.
01:00:57 in his madness, with his shrieking voice, God.
01:05:00 Not until the last
01:08:29 This is the deadly meaning of the sinister symbols:
01:11:31 And that fish are being preserved: as if for winter rations.
01:15:37 I no longer want him
01:19:01 Man, how much longer will Thebes still be without its men?
01:22:41 poured down on us. Even surviving houses
01:26:37 nor the smoke of the fire, nor the shadow of the smoke, shall you see.
01:30:38 lamenting his bridal bed and the abyss below