Alessandra Panaro

Based on the play by Euripides. The Greek goddess Athena is angry at the city of Thebes, so she decides to dry up all the wells causing a massive drought. In order to save the city, King Pentheus has to make a human sacrifice and choses to sacrifice Teiresias' daughter, Manto. However, the Greek god Dionysus intervenes and saves the girl.

Five brothers move north with their mother to Milan, finding fame in the boxing ring and love in the same woman. Labeled by Scorsese as “one of the most sumptuous black-and-white pictures,” this is a timeless story of modernity, class tension, and family drama by director Luchino Visconti and staring Alain Delon.