"The Battle of the Sexes" Battle of the Sexes | Summer Cinema Screenings at the Kapodistria Museum

Summer Cinema Screenings at the Kapodistria Museum

Friday 29 July

"The Battle of the Sexes"
Battle of the Sexes
2017 | Duration 121λ | Drama | PG-13
English language with Greek subtitles
Time: 21:30
Entrance: 6€

(Arrival at the Garden/Museum Café from: 20:30)

The thrilling tennis match between World Champion Billie Jean King and former Champion Bobby Riggs, which took place in 1973, has gone down in history as the Battle of the Sexes. A film about a landmark match, which caught the pulse of the times and carried the struggle for gender equality... on and off the field!

Directed byJonathan Dayton, Valerie Farris. 

Play: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Raisborough

Case study: The film brings to the screen the events that, in 1973, led to a completely unique match in the annals of tennis: the five-set match between world champion and equal rights activist Billie Jean King and former champion and proud chauvinist Bobby Riggs. The match was watched "with bated breath" by 90 million viewers and went down in history as the "Battle of the Sexes".

Trailer: https://youtu.be/-GSIuqDmNbs

Tickets:

▹Presale: TICKETBOX (Evg. Voulgareos & Montsenίγου, tel. 26610 27400) & Online: ticketbox.gr

▹On the day of the screening at the Museum, from 20:30.