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The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east. In his entourage, he has a run of Bacchantes. Semele, his mother, was distrusted by her family when she claimed that Zeus was the father of her child. Dionysus has come to restore her, revealing his divinity, and require proper worship of the Theban legion.

Sylvia Lindenstrand
Dionysos
Laila Andersson-Palme
Teiresias
Sten Wahlund
Kadmos

Peter Mattei
Pentheus
Anita Soldh
Agaue
Berit Lindholm
Alfa
Paula Hoffman
Beta
Camilla Staern
Gamma
Ellen Andreassen Jensen
Delta
Anna-Marie Mühle
Zeta
The Bacchae is a tv movie, drama, music, fantasy film released in 1993. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, it stars Sylvia Lindenstrand, Laila Andersson-Palme, Sten Wahlund. The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east. In his entourage, he has a run of Bacchantes. Semele, his mother, was distrusted by her family when she claimed that Zeus was the father of her child. Dionysus has come to restore her, revealing his divinity, and require proper worship of the Theban legion.
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