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
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