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The Trojan Women [VHS]

Katharine Hepburn (Actor), Vanessa Redgrave (Actor), Mihalis Kakogiannis (Director) Rated:
NR
Format: VHS Tape
4.0 out of 5 stars 28 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Patrick Magee
  • Directors: Mihalis Kakogiannis
  • Format: Color, NTSC
  • Rated:
    NR
    Not Rated
  • Number of tapes: 1
  • Studio: Lions Gate
  • VHS Release Date: January 11, 1991
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6300166139
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,408 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars"Anguish Heaped Upon Anguish"
By Foster Corbin TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 27, 2005
Format: DVD
Ancient Greek plays with all their dramatic devices and often an emphasis on static speeches by the actors and the chorus often do not translate well to the screen. Euripides' "The Trojan Women," however, is an exception to the rule. What makes this production work is the fine acting by most of the performers as well as the beautiful language, though in translation, of Euripides.

The plot is simple and straight forward. Queen Hecuba (Katharine Hepburn), her now crazed daughter Cassandra (Genevieve Bujold), her daughter-in-law Andromache (Vanessa Redgrave) and a host of other Trojan women are now at the mercy of the Greek victors. The play builds as one catastrophe after another befalls these women. Cassanda will be the wife of Agammemnon, Andromache will go with the son of Achilles, and Hecuba will become the slave of Odysseus-- or as Hecuba so aptly puts it, "Anguish heaped upon anguish."

The Greek chorus-- or in this instance I suppose we must call them the "Trojan Chorus" works well. Irene Papas plays a different sort of Helen than we see through other writers' eyes. Here she is unbowed, even as she awaits her fate from the hands of her wronged husband Menelaus. In a quite wonderful scene, after Helen has made her pitch to him to spare her life, Hecuba delivers the great lines: "Kill her, Menelaus." Ms. Hepburn has a lot of such passages. I remember from having seen the movie when it was released in 1971 her lines: "Kindness unwanted is unkindness."

The theme is obvious. Wars always hurt the women and children most-- Andromache's son almost steals the movie, by the way-- and while the weaponry and locales may change, war in 2005 is not that much different than it ever was, a sad, sobering thought.
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4.0 out of 5 starsAn emotionally distant version of Euripides's "Trojan Women"
By Lawrance Bernabo HALL OF FAME on April 3, 2003
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"The Trojan War" was written by the Greek tragic dramatist Euripides as a plea for peace after the Athenians had slaughtered the populace of the island of Melos for refusing to aid Athens in the war against Sparta, and as preparations were being made for the ruinous expedition against Syracuse. Consequently there is a strong rhetorical dimension to the play, which prophesies that a Greek force would sail across the sea after violating victims and meet with disaster. However, there the play also has a strong literary consideration in that the four Trojan Women all appear in the final chapter of the "Iliad," mourning over the corpse of Hector, retrieved by his father Priam from the camp of the Acheans. Following the episodic structure of Greek tragedy, we begin with the lamentations of Hecuba (Katharine Hepburn), queen of the fallen city, then have the wild prophecies of her crazed daughter Cassandra (Geneviève Bujold), and then have to watch Astyanax, the son of Hector and Andromache (Vanessa Redgrave), be ripped away from her mother's arms so he can be thrown from the walls of Troy. When the beautiful Helen (Irene Papas) is brought out, Hecuba tries to convince Menelaus (Patrick Magee) to kill his unfaithful wife. The tragedy ends with the women of Troy being taken to the ships of their captives.
This 1971 film was directed by Michael Cacoyannis, who is best known for directing "Zorba the Greek," but who also did an excellent version of another Euripides play "Electra" in 1962 with Irene Papas in the title role. Cacoyannis tries for something a bit more naturalistic than that previous effort, but the end result this time around creates an unfortunate distance between the characters and the audience that puts these performances in a weird sort of limbo.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA tragedy is taught
By Andreas Gregoriades on August 9, 2006
Format: DVD
With this production, Cacoyannis has achieved his best ever performance and has shown his directing genius; with this film, he can be considered as one of the best directors worldwide and a unique master in transferring classic Greek Drama to the screen.

Trojan Women is one of the best dramas written by Euripides 480~406 BC and can be truly appreciated from the way Cacoyannis remain faithful to the original script(415 BC)and his ability to transfer a theater masterpiece to a film.

He simplified the scenery, he utilized pastel soft colours for the background, he limited the scenery to the bare minimum and he brought forward the characters as Euripides himself indented it.

Cacoyannis has presented the best abilities of a group of exceptional actresses such as Vanessa Redgrave, Katharine Hepburn Genevieve Bujold, Ireni Papas.

One of best ever performances of Katharine Hepburn in one of the most difficult roles, as a queen of a defeated country, a wife of a proud King, a leader of the women, a mother of heroes and a mother of a daughter with an exceptional personality, a proud mother in law and a loving grandmother, struggling to maintain sense in a senseless tragic situation.

Irene Papa has performed extremely well the provocative and proud role of Helen to the point that the viewer might easily develop sentiments of hate towards her.

Vanessa Redgrave represented the very meaning of pride, character, and determination and yet at the same time the suffering of the wife of a hero and the mother of a child that must be eliminated by those who claim victory.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 starsTwo Stars

not very big on entertainment value

Published 2 months ago by Suzi Flynn
4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent!

Excellent....fit our bill for a dramatic reading rehearsal!

Published 2 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Excellent

Published 5 months ago by M. Lloyd
5.0 out of 5 starsClassic Greek play at it's finest. The actresses playing the women are...

Classic Greek play at it's finest. The actresses playing the women are too wonderful!

Published 8 months ago by Virginia Defibaugh
3.0 out of 5 starsVery mixed but passable; admirable efforts made

The Trojan Women earns a sympathetic but low 3 star rating from me. This is the type of film I want to come off. Read more

Published 13 months ago by rbrogan3
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Perfect condition. Acting that stuns.

Published 13 months ago by Capricorn
5.0 out of 5 starsThe Trojan Women

Very good. I loved the entire story and all of the performances.

Published 15 months ago by patty deak
4.0 out of 5 starsWell done, engrossing. Though it seemed strange to ...

Well done, engrossing. Though it seemed strange to see Katharine Hepburn in Greek tragedy, she did it well.

Published 23 months ago by Diana W. Montgomery
5.0 out of 5 starsGood film. I had seen it before but wanted ...

Good film. I had seen it before but wanted it for my collection.

Published on October 25, 2014 by Robert Jackson
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Outstanding acting performances.

Published on August 25, 2014 by Luis Miramontes

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