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Audiences rate it 48 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes20%
Audiences rate it 48 points higher than critics do.
43 audience votes
Key crew
- Jules DassinDirector
- Jules DassinWriter
- Margarita LymberakiScreenplay
- Míkis TheodorakisOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Melina MercouriPhaedra Kyrilis
- Anthony PerkinsAlexis Kyrilis
- Raf ValloneThanos Kyrilis
- Elizabeth ErcyErcy (as Elisabeth Ercy)
- Tzavalas KarousosPhaedra's father, (as T. Karoussos)
- Zorz SarriAriadne
- Andreas FilippidesAndreas
- Olympia PapadoukaAnna
- Stelios VokovichStravos
- Nikos TzogiasFelere (as Nicos Tzoyas)
- Depi MartiniHeleni
- Alexis PezasDimitris
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Themes
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