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The Illiac Passion (1967)

The Illiac Passion (1967)

Drama Fantasy
Release Date: 1967, December 30
Directors: Gregory J. Markopoulos
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Peggy Murray, Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga, Kenneth-King, Robert Alvarez, Tally Brown, Beverly Grant, Richard Beauvais, David Beauvais, Sheila Gary, Tom Venturi, Jan Chippman

Overview:

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

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