A TV Dante
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.
Cast
John Gielgud
Virgil
Joanne Whalley
Beatrice
Bob Peck
Dante
Laurie Booth
Cerberus
Susan Wooldridge
Lucy
Susan Crowley
Francesca
Robert Eddison
Charon
David Attenborough
Himself
David Rudkin
Himself
Tom Phillips
Himself
