Theban Plays: Antigone (1986)
• September 19th, 1986 • 1h 51min
Drama
Overview
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.
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