Electra w Irene Papas , spoken Greek, EN, FR, SP subs 1962

Electra (1962) by Euripides



starring Irene Papas

Directed by  Mihalis Kakogiannis



Original Greek with easy to read English, French and Spanish subtitles

selectable  from your VLC player



Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 12 nominations



run time: 1 hr 52 minutes



IMDb number:  tt0055950



IMDb description:



  This excellent adaptation by Michael Cacoyannis (whose name varies in

spelling over his long career of doing Greek drama) of the famous tragedy by

Euripides garnered him his first international success and an award at the

1962 Cannes Film Festival. Irene Papas plays Electra, the daughter of King

Agamemnon and sister of Orestes, caught up in an uncontrollable need for

revenge.



My notes on the new recode



 I have gone back to this drama several times lately just for the look of it.



When I did recently I saw that the subs were not showing and no one ever

pointed it out.  This recode is to correct that.  Use your VLC player to

select the subtitles from English, French, or Spanish.  A fourth item listed

is not modern Greek.  It is of the kind of captions for hearing impaired in

English and appears in white rather than the easy to read yellow.



 The black and white style resembles the post war work of Rosselini's Open

City.  Papas appears with here hair shorn as an outcast and has the hard look

of someone betrayed.



 These treatments of ancient Greek drama are all too rare and they are a

trademark of Cacoyannis throughout his career.  Look for Iphegenia as well

as The Trojan Women-- a large production with Katherine Hepburn and a star cast.  



 As an added observation it is interesting to see this Electra and then the

Iphigenia with Papas first in the role of Electra at a young age and then as

the mother of Iphegenia in the next generation of the Greek story.

 

I got the dvd of Electra locally and it is the best source around that I

know of.  The DVD is currently available at the usual sources.  Please encourage your library to acquire it in order that more viewers learn from and enjoy the history of the drama.



New Notes written February 5 2016



 Notes edited for the new index April 3







, 2020