Antigone (Antigone)

You can't force destiny

Release Date:	2003-05-05
Runtime:	116 min
Status:	Released
Genres:	Drama
Production:	CNC, Ueki & Associés, COPAT (Coopérative de Production Audiovisuelle Théâtrale)

Overview

Having defied the ban on Creon and offered a burial to Polynice, her treacherous homeland brother, Antigone is condemned to a slow death in a stone tomb, despite the interposition of Hémon, her fiance, the son of Creon . Nevertheless, Creon ends up following the advice of his diviner Tiresias and, fearing the wrath of the gods, buries Polynices with dignity. When he is about to free Antigone, the young woman had already hanged herself. Mad with pain, Hémon commits suicide by his side.