Achilles (film)

Movie
German title	Achilles
Original title	L'ira di Achille
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1962
length	118 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Marino Girolami
script	Gino De Santis Vladimiro Cajoli
production	Uneurop film
music	Carlo Savina
camera	Mario Fioretti
occupation
Gordon Mitchell : Achilles Jacques Bergerac : Hector Enio Girolami : Patroclus Mario Petri : Agamemnon Cristina Gaioni : Xenia Maria Fiè : Briseis (as Gloria Milland ) Eleonora Bianchi : Criseis Roberto Risso : Paris Emilio Spalla : Nestor Fosco Giachetti : Priam Tina Gloriani : Andromache Piero Lulli : Odysseus Nando Tamberlani : Crisos, high priest

Achilles (German alternative title: Der Zorn des Achilles ) is a mythological adventure film produced in Italy from 1962 , based loosely on the subject of Homer .

content

After Helena's flight with Paris to Troy, Troy is besieged by the Greeks . Achilles, invulnerable offspring of the Nereid Thetis and leader of the Myrmidons , takes a stand against the besieging Greek king Agamemnon and his comrades-in-arms, giving the Trojans a strategic advantage. Only when Hector kills Patroclus from their camp, with whom Achilles was friends, does Achilles take part in the battle again with his army. He humiliates Agamemnon and forces Hector into a hopeless duel. At the end of the film, the Achilles' heel is cut through with a hatchet and kills the hero.

publication

Achilles had its Italian premiere on September 23, 1962 . The German premiere of the film was on January 18, 1963. In the GDR , it was shown for the first time on June 11, 1988 on DFF 2 on GDR television.

additional

Recordings from the film The Battle for Troy are used in the film .

criticism

"A typical Italian stew from the early sixties."

- Hahn, Jansen, Stresau: Lexicon of fantasy films.

"Homer's heroic epic" Iliad "as a template for a pseudo-historical colossal film about part of the Trojan War. Much turmoil and false heroism. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• Achilles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Achilles in the online film database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Achilles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
2. ^ ^{A b} Achilles in the Lexicon of International Films .
3. ↑ Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen, Norbert Stresau : Lexicon of Fantasy Films. 650 films from 1900 to 1986 . Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02273-4 , p. 18.