When I watched the film on TV the other day I kept thinking, that this is a pretty good picture. I missed the opening and didn't know all the time that I enjoyed a movie by Robert Wise, who tells us about Helen of Troy, who actually was the wife of an unloved Greek King, who took of cause the chance to follow a young good looking fellow to the town of Troy, which is the said reason for a 10 year long war that is told us from ancient times by Homer. (The troy people think the war is about their gold treasure - that was later stolen by a German. They didn't have any oil) The travels of Odysseus are not in this picture, but pretty Brigitte Bardot at 22. I didn't see the original version but I had the impression that the lines of the characters were taken straight from the Homer epic poem. At least the German voices did their best to give some idea of the high standard of Homers literature. The fighting scenes were arranged good to look at, the actors not as nice as lovely BB, who is going to be 70 in September this year and didn't make any films since the early 70s. I didn't see the new film by Petersen, his hero doesn't wear a beard, that is modern but surly hurt in the old days to shave all the time. So I understand well why except the women and Paris the rest of the actors in the Wise movie put on a beard. What Wise could not avoid was the music. Full orchestra, nothing left to the imagination. And the horizon full of battle ships according to the method of Eugen Schuftan. It was the pre digital time and not bad at all.
Review of Helen of Troy
