Films with: Papas, Irene

Antigone

The Greek tragedy of Sophocles in which King Creon orders Antigone's death for burying her slain brother against the King's desire.

DVD 9573

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli Christ stopped at Eboli /

Levi, an intellectual exiled by the Fascist government during World War II to a mountain village in southern Italy, discovers the resilience and dignity of people who live close to the land.

DVD 4173

Elektra

Desolation and despair reign supreme in the kingdom of Mycenae. The great Agamemnon has been brutally murdered; his son Orestes has fled and his daughter Electra has been imprisoned within the walls of the castle. All hope seems lost until the sacred oracle speaks and replaces Electra's broken spirit with an unquenchable desire for justice and bloody vengeance.

DVD 9572

Guns of Navarone

A specialized commando team is assembled to destroy the German Army's mighty guns of Navarone, because they control a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea.

DVD 409

Iphigeneia

Commander Agamemnon stands ready to launch his infamous thousand ships to retrieve the beautiful Helen of Troy. As the wind refuses to blow, a priest condemns him for sacrilege, and the powerful general is pressured to sacrific his daughter to save the states. Threatened and tormented, Agamemnon is faced with sending his child like a lamb to the slaugher and betraying his wife.

DVD 9375

Message al-Risālah /

The dramatic story of Mohammed, the prophet who founded Islam.

DVD 9064

Omar Mukhtar: Lion of the desert Asad al-ṣaḥrāʾ /

Between two world wars, a struggle for freedom took place in the African desert. This movie is the historically accurate story about the Libyan resistance leader, Omar Mukhtar, who led the Libyan resistance against the Italian oppressors from 1911-1931.

DVD 4397

Trojan women

Cinematic rendition of Euripides' definitive anti-war drama.

DVD 3109

Yerma

Yerma is the lonely housewife of a Spanish farmer. She longs to have a child, but believes she is unable to conceive. Upon learning from an elderly psychic woman that the problem may have more to do with her husband, Yerma rebels against her lonely life and her place in society.

DVD 3130

Z

A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.

DVD 1705

Z

A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.

DVD 7069