Agora (film)
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| Directed by | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Produced by | Fernando Bovaira Álvaro Augustin |
| Written by |
Alejandro Amenábar Mateo Gil |
| Starring |
Rachel Weisz Max Minghella Oscar Isaac |
| Music by | Dario Marianelli |
| Cinematography | Xavi Giménez |
| Edited by | Nacho Ruiz Capillas |
| Distributed by |
Focus Features Newmarket Films Telecinco Cinema |
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126 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70 million |
| Box office | $39,041,505 |
Agora (Spanish: Ágora) is a 2009 Spanish English-language historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a female mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it. Surrounded by religious turmoil and social unrest, Hypatia struggles to save the knowledge of classical antiquity from destruction. Max Minghella co-stars as Davus, Hypatia's father's slave, and Oscar Isaac as Hypatia's student, and later prefect of Alexandria, Orestes.
The story uses historical fiction to highlight the relationship between religion and science at the time amidst the decline of Greco-Roman polytheism and the Christianization of the Roman Empire. The title of the film takes its name from the agora, a gathering place in ancient Greece, similar to the Roman forum. The film was produced by Fernando Bovaira and shot on the island of Malta from March to June 2008. Justin Pollard, co-author of The Rise and Fall of Alexandria (2007), was the historical adviser for the film.
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