The frogs
Overview
The comedy was written and played at the end of the 5th century BC, at the end of the Peloponnesian War, a time of decline of the Athenian Republic. Aristophanes, on the occasion of the political situation in his country, tries to help his fellow citizens by presenting this comedy. Dionysus and his slave Xanthias, with the instructions of Hercules, go down to Hades looking for a poet, who will bring his city out of the impasse in which it has reached. After the poetic struggle between Euripides and Aeschylus, Dionysus chooses the latter to save Athens and they leave Hades together.
About The frogs (1977)
Released in 1977, The frogs is a comedy film from ERT (Greece). It was directed by Spyros Evangelatos and Kostas Lyhnaras and written by Aristophanes. The cast is led by Kostas Athanasopoulos, Kostas Basis, Nikos Bousdoukos, Stathis Kakavas and Stefanos Kyriakidis. With a runtime of 2h 0m, the film is available in full HD.
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