Alexander the Great

Year: 1980

Runtime: 210 mins

Language: Greek

Director: Theo Angelopoulos

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Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, seizes a group of British tourists and holds them for ransom. He demands that Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens grant amnesty to his band of freedom fighters, using the hostages as leverage.

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