Saturday Movie Matinee: Trojan Women (1971)

Date and Time
January 5, 2013
Event Details

 After the Greek victory in the Trojan War, all the Trojan warriors and princes are slain and the women and children are left to be divided among the    conquerors. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will and despite her vanishing sanity, Andromache discovers that her son is to be          executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life.   In the end, it is the enduring dignity and unfaltering strength of Hecuba, widowed queen of Troy, that makes cowards of Troy’s captors. Based on the play by Euripides; English translation by Edith Hamilton. Original production: c1971.

A Joseph Shaftel production; produced by Michael Cacoyannis, Anis Nohra; directed by Michael Cacoyanis. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Genevieve Bjold … [et al]. (1971).