Agora
2009, 206 minutes
Alexandria, Egypt. 391 A.D. The World Changed Forever
"Agora," Amenabar's second English-language film is set in Roman Egypt in the fourth century A.D. Weisz plays astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world. Her slave Davus (Minghella) is torn between his love for his mistress and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
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