Electra
- Original title
- Ilektra
- Year
- 1962
- Running time
- 110 min.
- Country
- Greece
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Mihalis Kakogiannis. Play: EurÃpides
- Cast
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- Irene Papas
- Giannis Fertis
- Aleka Katselli
- Manos Katrakis
- Notis Peryalis
- Elsie Pittas
- Theodoros Dimitriou
- Takis Emmanuel
- Petros Ampelas
- Theano Ioannidou
- Eleni Karpeta
- Fivos Razi
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Greece-United States;
- Genre
- Drama | Ancient Greece
- Movie Groups
- Euripides Adaptations
- Synopsis
- A powerful rendering of the tragedy of Elektra by Euripides. The film begins with a summary treatment without dialogue of the action of the preceding play in the trilogy, The Agamemnon, in which the wicked Queen Clytemnestra and her lover Aesgisthes murder her husband Agamemnon upon his return from the Trojan War.
- Awards
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1962: Nominated for Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture1962: Cannes Film Festival: Technical Grand Prize
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