AGORA. Η ΝΕΑ ΤΑΙΝΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΛΕΧΑΝΤΡΟ ΑΜΕΝΑΜΠΑΡ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΙΝΗ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟ ΥΠΑΤΙΑ

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AGORA
Dir. Alejandro Amenábar
The story is set in Roman Egypt in the fourth century AD. Rachel Weisz plays astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world. Her slave, Davo (Mr Minghella), is torn between his love for his mistress and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
The idea is to bring ancient Alexandria back to life, allowing the audience to see, feel and smell a remote civilisation as if it were as real as today, the director has been quoted as saying.

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Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972 in Santiago, Chile) is a Spanish-Chilean film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile in 1972, to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth. He studied cinema at Madrid's Universidad Complutense but eventually dropped out.
In addition to writing and directing his own films, Amenábar has maintained a notable career as a composer of film scores, including the Goya-nominated score for José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas.
Amenábar was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside"), and in February 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In February 2004, Amenábar came out to the Spanish gay magazine Shangay Express (en.wikipedia.org)