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The Legend of Atreus

Format

6x50’

 

Production year

2011

 

Delivery

2012

 

Production company

Telekinisi (Greece)

 

Interested broadcasters

CBC (Canada), CYBC (Cyprus), NHK (Japan)

 

Supported by

ERT (Greece)

Eurovision TV contact
Nicole Jeanrenaud
+41 22 717 28 83

1400 years B.C. will seem like yesterday after experiencing The Legend of Atreus.
Intrigue, passion, a quest for power and in-depth knowledge of the human soul keep this saga alive today. 

With Irene Papas as artistic director, and Manoussos Manoussakis (Telekinesi) as director, this series will tell the story of three seemingly unconnected events that took place in three different cities around 1200 B.C., and led to the first known Great War, the Trojan War, providing the basis of today's social order. 

The first event takes place in Sparta, when Zeus meets Leda, resulting in the birth of Helen of Sparta. 
The second event happens in Troy, when the newborn Paris, future destroyer of the city, is allowed to live despite the predictions of the oracles. 
The third event takes place in Mycenae, where the two brothers Arteus and Thyestes battle for the throne.

The Legend of Atreus is a story of political intrigue. Passion, awe, pain and blood, love and revenge, heroes and traitors, just gods and unfair demons but most of all, irrationality and the thirst for power make it a contemporary story.  



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