Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

  • Gabriel Azorín

A group of teenagers wade through the marsh and they tell each other about their wartime experiences in online games. They arrive at the Roman baths and spend the night sitting in the water; they bathe, they talk. The warm water opens their pores, making their skin porous and the young men sensitive toward one another, their dreams, their fates. Just like the legionnaires who sit in these baths over two thousand years ago and set out into an uncertain future. As dawn breaks, they say goodbye to one another.

Four young men are bathing naked in an outside pool at night.

DIRECTOR

  • Gabriel Azorín

    Gabriel Azorín (born 1981) is a graduate of the Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de Madrid, where he now heads the documentary film program. After a series of short films, he made his directorial debut in 2016 with the documentary «Los Mutantes», in which the themes of time travel and new beginnings are already foreshadowed and return in LAST NIGHT I CONQUERED THE CITY OF THEBES, his first feature film.

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