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Theban Plays: Antigone (1986) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1986 · 111 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Don Taylor
- Starring
- John Gielgud, Juliet Stevenson, John Shrapnel, Rosalie Crutchley, Bernard Hill, Peter Jeffrey
During the final clash for Thebes' rule, Oedipus’s two sons kill one another. Creon then decrees that anyone who attempts to bury Polynices will be put to death. Defiant, Antigone insists that her brother receive proper burial rites despite the penalty.
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