Film

The frogs

1977 · 2h · Comedy

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.

Kostas Athanasopoulos

Kostas Basis

Nikos Bousdoukos

Stathis Kakavas

Stefanos Kyriakidis

Ilias Logothetis

Mihalis Mitrousis

Dimitris Piatas

Giorgos Tsimidis

Lefteris Voyatzis

Anna Kokkinou

Rika Sifaki

• Kostas LyhnarasDirector
• Spyros EvangelatosDirector
• AristophanesWriter

Release date

June 25, 1977

Status

Released

Original language

Greek

Runtime

2h

Genres

Comedy