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Antigone, a princess in ancient Greece, goes against the orders of the king to bury her dead brother, resulting in tragic consequences.

Berliner Antigone is a 1968 movie adaptation of the famous Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophokles. The story is set in Berlin and explores themes of moral responsibility and personal sacrifice.

Having defied the ban on Creon and offered a burial to Polynice, her treacherous homeland brother, Antigone is condemned to a slow death in a stone tomb, despite the interposition of Hémon, her fiance, the son of Creon . Nevertheless, Creon ends up following the advice of his diviner Tiresias and, fearing the wrath of the gods, buries Polynices with dignity. When he is about to free Antigone, the young woman had already hanged herself. Mad with pain, Hémon commits suicide by his side.