Omero Antonutti
Alexandros
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The film is based on the Dilesi Massacre of 1870 during which several bandits kidnapped British tourists and demanded a ransom. The film opens with a character named Alexander the Great who is the leader of the bandits being freed from prison.
Sep 3, 1984 · Alexander the Great: Directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos. With Omero Antonutti, Eva Kotamanidou, Mihalis Giannatos, Grigoris Evangelatos. A rebel leader calling himself Alexander the Great escapes from prison and captures some English tourists to hold as hostages.
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- Drama, History
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- 1984-09-03
Alexander the Great as the antihero, the revolutionary, the failure. His mythology, both revered and reviled, is reincarnated two millennia forward as an übermensch (the same übermensch as before) but cannot conquer modern battles of ideology.
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- ZDF, Theo Angelopoulos Films, RAI
- Theo Angelopoulos
A rebel leader calling himself Alexander the Great escapes from prison and captures some English tourists to hold as hostages. He returns to his village and finds there a commune in existence. The film is based on the Dilesi Massacre of 1870.
The Alexander of this film isn't the great Greek warrior but a bandit who has kidnapped a party of English aristocrats and holds them to ransom while at the same time taking over the village commune in the mountains where his presence is virtually that of a warlord.
Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.
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Jul 4, 2013 · A Greek bandit who believes himself to be Alexander the Great, the ancient Greek liberator whose tale was originated in the year of 1453, kidnaps a group of English aristocrats and takes them to a mountain village where he is trying to establish an agrarian commune with the help of a group of Italian aristocrats.
