The 300 Spartans

The 300 Spartans is directed by Rudolph Maté in the year 1960 with the focus on the backgrounds of the Persian War. The first performance of this historian movie has been on the 29^th of August in 1962 in America. There is another, a newer version of this movie that was published in 2007 by Zack Snyder. Let's talk about the storyline that is mainly the same in both versions:

The king of Persia Xerxes leads very big army to Europe to destroy the the city states in Greece. Within this attack he forces the revenge for his death father's marathon ten years ago. The exiled king in Sparta Demaratos gets warned but does not pay much attention to.

The only one who really pays attention to this warnings is the Greek soldier Themistokles who builds up an alliance and convinces Leonidas (on the left picture), the king of Sparta, to devolve the commando for the army. Both of them are sure that the amble at the Thermoplyae hat to be reinforced. Parallel, the Greek officials want to celebrate and after this they allow their soldiers to fight. But the Persian army will overrun Greece if they wait any longer. Leonidas takes 300 Spartans that are free of the Greek power of decision of the officials and the senate.

In the following war the Spartans are able to keep the Persians calm. This message makes Xerxes very angry but for this moment he has to accept that the Greek alliance, led by Leonidas pushes the Persian army back. Leonidas plans are to force them back until the land connection of the peninsula Peloponnes, the Greek mainland. The pressure of the Greeks grows so high that Xerxes thinks about to avoid more defeats and to take his army to Sicily. In fact the Persians find a way to evade the pressure caused by the Greeks.

When Leonidas realizes encirclement he decides to send the army into the south to protect the Greek cities there. Unfortunately the Greek Spartans are outnumbered so that they are not able anymore to stop the Persians invade into the amble. Due to this realization they begin to fight against the Persian army. The Spartans do not give up even until the last soldier gets murdered by the Persians.

Please click here to watch the trailer of both versions:

the 1960 version and the 2007 version.

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