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Cast

François Chaumette

François Chaumette

Egisthe

Michel Duchaussoy

Michel Duchaussoy

The gardener

Annie Ducaux

Annie Ducaux

Clytemnestra

Denise Gence

Denise Gence

The Narsès woman

Michel Aumont

Michel Aumont

President

Paul-Émile Deiber

Paul-Émile Deiber

The beggar

Catherine Salviat

Catherine Salviat

A great Eumenide

Crew

Pierre Dux

Pierre Dux

Director

Pierre Dux

Pierre Dux

Action Director

Tony Aubin

Tony Aubin

Music

Jean Giraudoux

Jean Giraudoux

Writer

Bernard Girod

Bernard Girod

Director of Photography

Georges Wakhévitch

Georges Wakhévitch

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Électre

19720.0 / 10133 min
Drama

Overview

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.