A TV Dante

Release Date: 1990-06-13

Overview: A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of his 14th century epic poem The Divine Comedy. The eight cantos of the film are not conventionally dramatised, rather they are illuminated with layered and juxtaposed imagery while the text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage.

Rating: 6.4 / 10

Cast

John Gielgud

as Virgil

Joanne Whalley

as Beatrice

Bob Peck

as Dante

Laurie Booth

as Cerberus

Susan Wooldridge

as Lucy