The Bacchae
Apr 09 1993
•2h 20m
•TV Movie, Drama, Music, Fantasy
The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east. In his entourage, he has a run of Bacchantes. Semele, his mother, was distrusted by her family when she claimed that Zeus was the father of her child. Dionysus has come to restore her, revealing his divinity, and require proper worship of the Theban legion.
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Sylvia Lindenstrand
Dionysos
Laila Andersson-Palme
Teiresias
Sten Wahlund
Kadmos
Peter Mattei
Pentheus
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