Francaise title: Alexandre Greek title: Αλέξανδρος Russian title: Александр Original title: Alexander
Alternative titles: Alejandro Magno | Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut | Alexander: Director’s Cut | Alexander the Great
Adventure movie – USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands Production year: 2003 Movie length: 175 minutes
Director: Oliver Stone Writer: Oliver Stone, Christopher Kyle, Laeta Kalogridis Cinematograph: Rodrigo Prieto Music: Vangelis
Movie description:
Conquering 90% of the known world by the age of 25, Alexander the Great led his armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India. This film will concentrate on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, Hephaestion. Alexander died young, of illness, at 33. Alexander’s conquests paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of Christianity centuries later), and removed many of the obstacles that might have prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words, the world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander’s bloody, yet unifying, conquest.
Einen kleinen Schönheitsfehler hat dieser Film: Alexander der Große war nicht blond; er hatte dunkle Haare. Es gab zu seiner Zeit so gut wie keine blonden Griechen.
Aber nur blonde (nordische?) Menschen sind Siegertypen, will uns dieser Film wohl vermitteln. Ich glaube, das hatten wir schon einmal.
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