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The Confrontation

Historic Drama · Religion · Period Drama

Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion. Set in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken power, dancing, singing Communist students debate C…

Electra, My Love

Performance · Based on Literature · Cannes Film Festival

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra, still burning with hatred towards his murderer, the tyrant Aegisztosz, attempts to rouse an apathetic population against the rule of this usurper.   A richly inventive adaptation of the two-thousand-year-old Greek …

Red Psalm

Historic Drama · Cannes Film Festival · History

Set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s. When a group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner, they are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.   Structured as a passion play. An awesom…