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Électre

0.0 133 mins Drama   1972
Editions Montparnasse   INA  
Director(s): Pierre Dux

During the long journey that brought him home victorious in the Trojan War, Agamemnon fell in love with one of his captives, Cassander, daughter of Priam, with whom he had children. The reception in Argos, more than ten years later, was icy. Annoyed by the double indelicacy of her husband, Clytemnestra, his wife who had meanwhile become the mistress of Aegisthus, killed him with the help of her lover. Aegisthus then became the regent and ensured the prosperity of the city alongside his mistress, the widowed queen. But Electra, one of the daughters of Agamemnon, has always foreseen the murder and adultery of her mother. Solitary, wild, she lives in the royal palace awaiting the return of Orestes, her brother who has taken refuge since childhood with an uncle, in order to take revenge. Electra can begin, the crimes of the Atreides family continue quietly, as planned.

Casts of Électre

François Chaumette

as Egisthe

Michel Duchaussoy

as The gardener

Annie Ducaux

as Clytemnestra

Denise Gence

as The Narsès woman

Michel Aumont

as President

Paul-Émile Deiber

as The beggar

Catherine Salviat

as A great Eumenide

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