Euripides Trailers
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Euripides was a classical Athenian playwright whose most famous works include Medea, Hippolytus, and Iphigenia.
Most Popular Euripides Trailers
Total trailers found: 34
Medea Trailer (1970)
28 January 1970
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
Phaedra Trailer (1962)
25 May 1962
A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly.
Medea Trailer (1989)
08 August 1989
It is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy Medea from Euripides, a version where the Gods willing and intervations are absent.
The Bacchantes Trailer (1961)
02 March 1961
The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.
Orestes Trailer (1969)
22 November 1969
The third part of Euripides’ trilogy relates Orestes’ confrontation with the people of Argos after killing his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, and his struggle to defend himself and his heritage – with the support of his sister, Electra.
Iphigenia Trailer (1977)
10 September 1977
The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer.
The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride Trailer (2011)
26 February 2011
Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric production.
Medea Trailer (2019)
09 May 2019
Medea is expelled from the mining region in the Atacama Desert and is given just one day to disappear.
The Trojan Women Trailer (1967)
17 February 1967
In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater.
Medea Trailer (2020)
30 October 2020
The inalienable and inconceivable core of an old myth is swirling and fermenting beneath the surface of a recognizable contemporary story.
Bash: Latter-Day Plays Trailer (2001)
28 August 2001
The movie comprises three vignettes of actors-speaking-to-audience, two of which are monologues. All three revolve around violence or murder.
Medea Trailer (1963)
25 March 1963
Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.
Hippolyte et Aricie Trailer (2020)
14 November 2020
In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutionary work: Hippolyte et Aricie.
The Bacchae Trailer (2009)
27 September 2009
A talented ensemble cast bring Euripides masterpiece to life. The Bacchae (also called The Bacchants or Bakchai in Greek) tells the story of the god Dionysus who comes to the city of Thebes disguised as a charismatic young man accompanied by a throng of erotic female maenads.
The Trojan Women Trailer (1971)
01 May 1971
In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone.
Alkeste - Die Bedeutung, Protektion zu haben Trailer (1970)
07 April 1970
Adi (Admitos) is under the protection of Apollo, the son of a man with money and relationships. The two are in jail, suspected of murder, but without evidence.
Medea Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
TV adaptation of Michael Thalheimer's production at the Schauspiel Frankfurt.
Medea Trailer (2022)
04 May 2022
After escaping from her homeland and now abandoned by the man she loves, Medea must find strength from within to fight against growing injustice - how far is she willing to go?
Dionysus Trailer (1964)
21 December 1964
In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.
Medea Trailer (1954)
02 June 1954
Medea is centered on Medea's calculated desire for revenge against her unfaithful husband. The play is set in Corinth some time after Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, where he met Medea.
Cassandra Trailer (2008)
22 April 2008
Euripides' Greek tragedy, "The Trojan Women" is played out on the edge of a rocky desolate Mexican border town in this poetic reinterpretation by Director Mauricio Chernovetzky.
A Dream of Passion Trailer (1978)
21 May 1978
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea.
Electra Trailer (1962)
25 May 1962
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
The Bacchae Trailer (1993)
09 April 1993
The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east.
Médée Trailer (2001)
20 February 2001
Repudiated by her husband Jason, Medea takes cruel revenge on her children.
Dionysus in '69 Trailer (1970)
22 March 1970
Filmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides. This play is performed by members of The Performance Group, an NYC experimental theater group who has made their own personal adaptation of this ancient text.
National Theatre Live: Medea Trailer (2014)
04 September 2014
Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile.
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea Trailer (2022)
22 October 2022
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance.
Conversion Trailer (2014)
10 October 2014
In this contemporary take on the ancient Greek tragedy “The Bacchae” by Euripides, Dionysus, the god of wine, madness, divine ecstasy and of the arts is a downtown fashion photographer with a gluten allergy, who, along with his model Maenads, lures the rational and civilized King Pentheus into his hotel party of debauchery.
