Dante's inferno
Description
This ambitious program, produced by the award-winning film director Peter Greenaway and internationally known artist Tom Phillips, brings to life the first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno. Featuring a cast that includes Sir John Gielgud as Virgil, the cantos are not conventionally dramatized. Instead, the feeling of Dante's poem is conveyed through juxtaposed imagery that conjures up a contemporary vision of hell, and its meaning is deciphered by eminent scholars in visual sidebars who interpret Dante's metaphors and symbolism. Caution to viewers: program contains nudity.
Runtime
90 min
Subjects
Contributor
Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c1993
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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