Mariangela Melato
Also Known As: Maria Angela Melato
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mariangela Melato (19 September 1941 – 11 January 2013) was an Italian cinema and theatre actress. Born in Milan, the daughter of a traffic policeman and a seamstress, Melato from a young age studied painting at the Academy of Brera, drawing posters and working as a window dresser at La Rinascente to pay for her acting lessons with Esperia Sperani. A striking, blonde actress, she began her stage career in 1960, entering the stage company of Fantasio Piccoli and debuting as an actress in the play Binario cieco.From 1963 to 1965 she worked with Dario Fo in Settimo: ruba un po' meno and La colpa è sempre del diavolo, then in 1967 she worked with Luchino Visconti in The Nun of Monza. In 1968, her final theater breakthrough with Orlando furioso by Luca Ronconi.She made her film debut in 1969 with Pupi Avati's Thomas e gli indemoniati.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Birthday: September 18, 1941
Deathday: January 11, 2013
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Gender: Female
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Moses the Lawgiver
Overview: The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-22
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Flash Gordon
Overview: A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Swept Away
Overview: A spoiled rich woman and a brutish Communist deckhand become stranded alone on a desert island after venturing away from their cruise.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-18
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Petomaniac
Overview: The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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Lost and Found
Overview: Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited with a childhood companion at the central train station in Milan. Throughout 24 hours there, she will experience her particular descent into hell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-04-12
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Love and Anarchy
Overview: Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Dear Michele
Overview: Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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One Way or Another
Overview: Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-30
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Saxofone
Overview: A young busker goes around in Milan with his saxophone, whereby he always plays the same tune and he experiences surrealistic adventures throughout the big city. Meanwhile, a wealthy woman from the local "jet set" falls in love with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-10-26
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The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Overview: After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Beach House
Overview: Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-27
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So Fine
Overview: While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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To Forget Venice
Overview: Nicky and Marta, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian countryside. Accompanied by Claudia and her lover, as well as Nicky's partner, Picchio, they plan to spend a Sunday together when fate intervenes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-14
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Tomorrow We Dance
Overview: Aliens send a hypnotic signal through a TV channel, and the signal makes people dance and makes them forget their fears.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-09
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Il resto del Pap'occhio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Between Miracles
Overview: Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-19
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Di che segno sei?
Overview: Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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Execution Squad
Overview: Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-25
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Un uomo perbene
Overview: In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Policewoman
Overview: A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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Basta guardarla
Overview: Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-27
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Come Away with Me
Overview: Maria, daughter of Italian emigrants, lives with her son Santino who lives by expedients. In a small American town, inhabited mostly by children of Italian immigrants, the woman does everything to prevent her boyfriend from getting lost by taking the wrong path, so every time Santino tries to score a shot, Maria manages to blow his plans. Until one day the loving mother decides that the time has come to teach a fundamental lesson for the life of her son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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We'll Call Him Andrea
Overview: Paolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-14
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Rebecca, az első feleség
Overview: A naive young woman moves into the mansion that belongs to her new husband, a rich widower. She soon realizes the memory of his deceased first wife maintains a grip on her husband, as well as the staff of servants.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2008-04-07
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The Seduction of Mimi
Overview: Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer – but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-19
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Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
Overview: A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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Due volte vent'anni
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-04-01
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Secrets Secrets
Overview: Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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Romance
Overview: Love story between a young man and a married woman. She's married to a businessman who's neglecting her. She would like to leave him but she's afraid of the age difference between her and her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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La fine è nota
Overview: A young lawyer returns home and discovers that a man has committed suicide jumping through a window of his house. His wife, Maria, says that she let the unknown man enter because he said the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo start to investigate about the man and about the reasons of his suicide.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-02-10
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Eye of the Cat
Overview: Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-19
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Il generale dorme in piedi
Overview: A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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Dirty Linen
Overview: The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-01-29
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Come Together
Overview: An American stuntman working on spaghetti westerns in Europe picks up two pretty American tourists and they decide to take a road trip around Europe together. However, things don't turn out exactly as each of them expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-25
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Mortacci
Overview: Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-02-24
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We Are Cinema
Overview: An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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Love Returns
Overview: Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-04-19
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C.I.A. Secret Story
Overview: Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-21
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My Dearest Son
Overview: A respectable lawyer finds out his son is a heroin addict. Heartbroken, he'll do anything to help his only child, even if it means sharing his hell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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La vita cambia
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-05-13
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Thomas
Overview: A modest theatrical company, soon to debut, organizes a superstitious spiritual session. During the evening the spirit of little Thomas is evoked.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-28
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Par le sang des autres
Overview: In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town as their ransom. After the initial shock, the mayor, his brother, the prefect, the police, and the gendarmerie gather around the house where the two woman are imprisoned. It will be a test for everyone and each of them will show his/her real stuff: hypocrisy, meanness, or humanity concealed under their provincial respectability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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The Tree of Guernica
Overview: The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain's civil war play out. Villa Romero is home to Vandale (Mariangela Melato) a witch, count Cerralbo (Bento Urago) a powerless land baron, and his four sons. Three of Cerralbo's sons are ruthless sadists who pillage the countryside, but the fourth, Goya (Ron Faber), is an artist challenging authority and the church.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-11-19
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La Presidentessa
Overview: Gobette, a young avant-garde dancer, finds herself unemployed after the closure of the provincial club where she performs. By pure coincidence, Cipriano Gaudet, Minister of Justice, meets her at a judge's house and, convinced that she is the wife of the subordinate, gives promotions to the unsuspecting representative of the law in order to remove him from the woman and be able to get married with the soubrette. ..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-17
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Let's Have a Riot
Overview: Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-19
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The Married Priest
Overview: A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-11-01
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Probably Love
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-08-30
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Filumena Marturano
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-30
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Overview: A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-03
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Help Me Dream
Overview: In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-26
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My Darling, My Dearest
Overview: Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the North. Gennarino would never leave his beloved island if he had not stumbled into a love affair with Donna Egeria, wife of the Mafia boss Don Mimì. To escape certain revenge, he boards a goods train. In a dream, Saint Totino appears to him and promises him protection in exchange for a regulated life. He thus arrives in Milan, where he meets Armida, a woman of the streets, who takes him into her home and makes him her protector and lover. But San Totino appears again to Gennarino and reproaches him for being a kept man: he must work and Armida must change her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-04-03
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The Days Are Numbered
Overview: After a close call on on the highway, Marco--a very famous singer/songwriter in 1968--climbs onto the roof of his car and starts to sing. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, he tries to take his life back into his own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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The Sicilian Checkmate
Overview: Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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Dancers
Overview: A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-09
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Invasion
Overview: A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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The Cat
Overview: Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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The Good Soldier
Overview: Tommaso, a young boy growing up in a big family in the country often spies on cousin Marta. Then she marries and moves away. The film then following the courses of both their lives. Tom grows up and goes into military service, Marta is separated from her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-02-01
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The Nada Gang
Overview: Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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In the Pope's Eye
Overview: The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Behind the White Glasses
Overview: It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmüller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-21
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Orestea
Overview: The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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