Jessie+(Agora)

AGORA Production year: 2009 Country: Spain Runtime: 129 mins Director: Alejandro Amenábar Cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minguella, Ashraf Barhom, Oscar Isaac, Rupert Evans, Sammy Samir, Michael Lonsdale.

The last creation of the famous Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar is a tour to Egypt in the 4th century through the unusual life of the first mathematician woman of the human race history who devoted herself to science. Hipatia is Teon's daughter, the last director of the legendary library of Alexandria, whose existence coincides with a crucial moment for Greek society. She tries to unravel the movement of the planets in a time in which differents religions coexist harmoniously. The end of this peace begins when Christians decide to eradicate other cults following the ambition of Cirilo, a bishop who aspires to govern the city. He provokes a horrific massacre before completly exile of Jewish people and Hipatia will be persecuted and accused to be a witch. This is truly a masterly work that brings from the past a forgotten brilliant woman who put her life at risk to defend her beliefs in a time full of fanaticism and intolerance. Based on a true story, it shows us the terrible change of an unspoken pact of several cultures for a violent tyranny which lasted for many centuries.