- Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
- A powerful rendering of the tragedy of Elektra by Euripides, second in a trilogy. The film begins with a summary treatment without dialogue of the action of the preceding play, The Agamemnon, in which the wicked Queen Clytemnestra and her lover Aesgisthes murder her husband Agamemnon upon his return from the Trojan War.—Paul Brians <brians@wsu.edu>
- As Agamemnon bathes upon returning from the Trojan War, his wife and her lover kill him (in revenge for a daughter Agamemnon sacrificed to the gods years earlier). His two surviving children thereafter live in different kinds of exile, with son Orestis immediately taken far away so as to remain unharmed, and daughter Elektra left behind and made a virtual prisoner in the palace. She is latter forced into an undignified marriage to a middle-aged farmer and sent away, which isn't all that bad since the farmer has a generous and caring heart. Still, Electra wants vengeance, and when Orestis finally returns to her, grown up and accompanied by Pylades, plans are made and vengeance is carried out against their mother and her co-murdering lover.—statmanjeff
- Agamemnon returns victorious to Mycenae after the end of the costly Trojan War, only to die at the hands of his conniving, unfaithful wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus. As Agamemnon's son, Orestes, is secretly sent away by his mentor, the king's beautiful daughter, Electra, stays in Mycenae only to witness her mother's wedding to Aegisthus. More and more, fierce hatred and the thirst for retribution replace her innocence, forcing her to weave an elaborate scheme. As a result, when Orestes returns home, the determined siblings summon up the courage to murder duplicitous Aegisthus, making sure that their adulterous mother, too, shares the same fate with him. Now, shocked by the double homicide, the people of Mycenae demand justice, banishing Electra and Orestis forever from Argos. Can they find atonement after matricide?—Nick Riganas
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