The Trojan Women (film)

The Trojan Women Greek is a 1971 film, directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Katharine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave. The film was made with the minimum of changes to Edith Hamiltons translation of Euripides original play, save for the omission of deities, as Cacoyannis said they were hard to film and make realistic.

When filming began in the Spanish village of Atienza, 80 miles northeast of Madrid, sections of the press were speculating that there might be fireworks between the lead actresses. Hepburn had recently gone on record deploring the moral squalor and carelessness of the modern generation, and the impulsive and radical Redgrave was thought by some of the press to be a symbol to that sloppy generation. In fact the actresses got on well, talking about painting, politics, and acting Hepburn expressed enthusiasm for Redgraves 1966 Rosalind in As You Like It and both actresses began to learn Spanish.Cacoyannis first staged The Trojan Women in Italy in 1963, with Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, and Mildred Dunnock in the leading roles. Later in the same year he took the production to New York and in 1965, to Paris. For me, he said in a 1971 magazine interview, the play is particularly pertinent and real. What the play is saying is as important today as it was when it was written. I feel very strongly about war, militarism, killing people ... and I havent found a better writer who makes that point more clearly than Euripides. The play is about the folly of war, the folly of people killing others and forgetting that they are going to die themselves. ........

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