Euripides: Iphigenia (1977 film) - Ifigeneia sacrificed

The end of the film. It was shot on location at Aulis.

Tatiana Papamoschou ... Ifigeneia
Irene Papas ... Klytaimnistra
Kostas Kazakos ... Agamemnonas

in Greek, with English subtitles

Produced and directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis (Michael Cacoyannis)




Original Music by Mikis Theodorakis




Cinematography by Giorgos Arvanitis

Iphigeneia at Aulis - Ifigeneia - Clytemnestra

"For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?"

----Kahlil Gibran


Bernard Knox writes:

Euripidean tragedy is the writing on the Athenian wall. It numbers and weighs; it understands and pities. It does not condemn, for the situtation is beyond judgment; it does not propose reform, for it is beyond action. Euripides attempts to understand to sympathize; but he offers no comfort, no solution, no explination, only sympathy. And this quality is perhaps what made Aristotle say that in spite of his defects we was the most tragic of poets.

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[themeanman00]

efgaristo ShakespeareAndMore!

euripides must be good, after 2400yrs we're watching it on Utube.

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[Iphigenia86]

This is gorgeous.

This is one of my favourite videos on YouTube. So THANK you! :)

Euripides wrote this play some years after he wrote the Iphigenia in Tauris which is set afterwards (in dramatic time) in which she is reunited with her brother Orestes (the little boy you see here).

This movie does show it but at the end of the play Iphigenia is meant to be saved: the goddess Artimis replaces her with a deer. Like the deer killed at the start of this film! Go figure ;)

[EastJazzman]

I feel sorry for Agamemnon, forced to sacrifice his daughter for his brothers wife.

[MoviesYourWay]

@rustydog1236 Welcome to the Greek Tragedy/Mythology...

[FeniaBee]

Thank you so much for this video.And many thanks to one of the greatest directors ever existed Michael Cacoyannis.

[arikat1]

@euch27 they won the war after 10 years by entering Troy in a wooden horse :)

[arikat1]

re sy, where can i find the movie? Any suggestions? (yes... i tried google )

[rustydog1236]

Anyone catch the Gluck Iphegenie en Tauride by the MET a couple of weeks ago? Fantastic!

[rustydog1236]

But the wind came up BEFORE the sacrifice. Perhaps there's no such thing as a god? Deer or Iphigenie, does it matter?

[FreedomforHaiti]

I saw this movie when it was new at an art house in the U.S. I was only nine or 10 years old, but the film stayed with me all these years. I never thought I'd see it again!

[1222cielo]

FABOR BY SOMEONE CAN TELL ME HOW I CAN DOWNLOAD OR WHERE CAN I FIND THIS MOVIE?. Anyone who knows PLEASE let me know AND THAT THE will thank A SALUTE TO ALL THOSE WHO LIKE THE MOVIES Trojans.