Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana (1970)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 65 minuten
Alternative titles: Notes towards an African Orestes / Notes for an African Orestes
Country:
Italy
Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starst: Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye and Marcello Melis
IMDb score:
6,6 (596)
Releasedate: 29 November 1975
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Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana plot
In this film Pasoloni ventures to the Greek tragedy Oresteia by Aeschylus (525-456 BC). Pasolini transposed the story to the Africa of his own time. In the emerging states (then) he looked for political figures who deserved a role in the play: a modern Agamemnon (in ancient times the king of Mycenae), an Orestes (Agamemnon's son), Clytaemnestra (Agamemnon's wife), etc. In the film, he assumes two constants: the actual story and its mechanisms, the suggestion of the faces and the natural environment. The Trojan War is symbolized by images of the Biafran War.
Actors and actresses
Self - Musician: Saxophone
Self - Musican: Drums
Self - Musician: Contrabasse
Self - Singer
Self - Singer
Self (uncredited)
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