A screening of The Rescheduled Antigone / Die verschobene Antigone (dir. Volker Schlöndorff and Heinrich Böll, episode from portmanteau film Germany in Autumn / Deutschland im Herbst, West Germany 1978). Introduced by Arshya Bommaraju and Carrie Thomas, with post-screening discussion.
A group of TV executives debate whether they should broadcast a television version of Sophocles' Antigone commissioned for a series called 'Youth meets the Ancient Classics'. Should it be aired, or is it an 'incitement to violence' and ought to be shelved in the interest of public safety? Sophocles' play meets television self-censorship in the so-called 'German Autumn' of 1977, when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).
Free, all welcome, no booking required
Accessibility
The JdP Music Building has step free access; please see the Online Access Guide for further details about the venue. Please email St Hilda's College at: lodge@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk with any accessibility requirements or queries about the JdP.
Getting to the JdP Music Building
Greek tragedy between stage and screen
The final seminar in this series will be held in the JdP on:
- Monday 24 Feb at later time of 7pm: Fellini Satyricon (1969)