Kostas Kazakos and Irene Papas were co-stars both in this film, Electra (1962), and another film 15 years later, Iphigenia (1977), both directed by Michael Cacoyannis and each with a score by Mikis Theodorakis. Kazakos and Papas would die a day apart, on September 13 and 14, 2022, at the respective ages of 87 and 96. Composer Theodorakis had died just over a year before, also at age 96, and on the day before Papas's 95th birthday.
Greece's official submission to the 1963's Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category.
Prologue: "After fighting for 10 years against Troy, Agamemnon, general of all Greeks, return victoriously to his kingdom. The people of Mycenae and Clytemnestra, his wife, welcomed him with great honors."
Filmed on location in Mycenae and Argos in 1961.