Alexander the Great (1980)

Directors

Thodoros Angelopoulos

Cast

Brizio Montinaro, Christoforos Nezer, Eva Kotamanidou, Francesco Carnelutti, Grigoris Evangelatos, Laura De Marchi, Michalis Giannatos, Nikos Kouros, Norman Mozzato, Omero Antonutti, Toula Stathopoulou

The story

The film is based on the Dilesi Massacre of 1870 during which several bandits kidnapped British tourists and demanded a ransom. The film opens with a character named Alexander the Great who is the leader of the bandits being freed from prison. Alexander and the bandits have kidnapped a group of British aristocrats and bring them to an agrarian community in the mountains that Alexander, the villagers, and a group of Italian anarchists (who arrive later in the film) are trying to build on a system of public ownership and egalitarian beliefs.

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