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Helen of Troy is a film of genre Drama with Eva Dahlbeck

Helen of Troy (1951)

Helen of Troy
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Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Musical
Rating53% 2.6522852.6522852.6522852.6522852.652285

Sköna Helena (Beautiful Helen) is a Swedish musical film of 1951 directed by Gustaf Edgren, and based loosely on the story and music of the opéra bouffe La belle Hélène. It was director Gustaf Edgren's last film and stars Max Hansen and Eva Dahlbeck.

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Sandwiched between the East and the West, is the neutral, small, carefree kingdom of Arcadia. Its two powerful neighbours vie for world domination. The eastern neighbour's ruler Trojanus has recently taken several minor states under his "protection". Prince Paris is shackled and put aboard a Trojan ship as a galley-slave. Trojanus believes that the Arcadian province Thermopylae, with its mountain passes would make a useful route to the west and begins an intrigue to usurp the area peacefully. He has sought the support of Arcadia's royalists, who form a treacherous fifth column.

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