The Trojan Women

After their ten-year siege, the victorious Greek army seeks to curse those Trojans whom fate has yet spared. Separated from their children, denied their mourning and destined for slavery, the women of fallen Troy huddle within the parched wreckage of their once glorious city. Beautiful Cassandra (Genevieve Bujold) is betrothed against her will despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache (Vanessa Redgrave) discovers her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen (Irene Papas) desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. But it is Hecuba (Katherine Hepburn), widowed queen of Troy, whose enduring dignity and unfaltering strength makes cowards of Troy's captors.