Release Date | 1991-04-03 |
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Runtime | 95 minutes |
Genres | Drama, War |
Stars | Matthias Habich, Sebastian Hartmann, Tatiana Lygari, Jan Josef Liefers, Christos Tsagas |
Directors | Ulrich Plenzdorf, Hans Poppe, Wolfgang Bajorat, Dorothea Hildebrandt, Franz Fühmann |
During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of Oedipus.