Agora (2009)ro_sub-JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv

Agora (2009)ro_sub-JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv

aka Alexandria aka Agora - Die Säulen des Himmels aka Mists of Time

Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | slave | christian |
philosophy | love | christianity

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to
the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while
also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy and
mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.

Storyline

Alexandria, 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy.
Her student Orestes is in love with her, as is Davus, her personal slave. As
the city's Christians, led by Ammonius and Cyril, gain political power, the
institutions of learning may crumble along with the governance of slavery.
Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes, the city's prefect, has an uneasy peace with
Christians, led by Cyril. A group from the newly empowered Christians has now
taken to enforce their cultural hegemony zealously; first they see the Jews as
their obstacle, then nonbelievers. Hypatia has no interest in faith; she's
concerned about the movement of celestial bodies and "the brotherhood of all".
Although her former slave doesn't see it that way.
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Taglines: Alexandria, Egypt. 391 A.D. The World Changed Forever

I think that the actress playing Hypatia is fine and convincing as a free spirit
in an age of bigotry and also good is the performance of her two unconsummated
would-be-lovers the aristocrat and latter Prefect Orestes and the slave and latter
Christian zealot, Davus. The actor playing Cyril conveys the aura of sliminess and
bigotry of a religious power-player.

film language is english with romanian subtitle embeded