The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east. In his entourage, he has a run of Bacchantes. Semele, his mother, was distrusted by her family when she claimed that Zeus was the father of her child. Dionysus has come to restore her, revealing his divinity, and require proper worship of the Theban legion.
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Cast
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Sylvia Lindenstrand
Dionysos
Also in
Le Nozze di Figaro
A Summer of Love
Laila Andersson-Palme
Teiresias
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Ingmar Bergman
Known for
The Rite
Torment
Måns Reuterswärd
Göran O. Eriksson
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Som natt och dag
Sylvia Ingemarsson
Sten Wahlund
Kadmos
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Euripides
Raymond Wemmenlöv
Peter Mattei
Pentheus
Also in
Don Giovanni
Eugene Onegin
Jan Stolpe
Wulf Meseke
Ingmar Bergman Director · Euripides Author Daniel Börtz Composer
First release April 9, 1993 · Produced in Sweden · Original title Backanterna
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Sweden
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Original title
Backanterna
Original language
Swedish
Spoken on screen
Swedish
Release dates
Sweden · April 9, 1993
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