Die Bakchen

Synopsis

Austrian flmed staged production of Euripedes' The Bacchae, portraying a conflict between the deity Dionysus, son of Zeus, and his cousin Pentheus, ruler of Thebes

Cast

Edith Clever

Agave

Bruno Ganz

Pentheus

Peter Fitz

Cadmus

Heinrich Giskes

First messenger from the mountain

Michael König

Dionysus

Otto Sander

Tiresias