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.
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- John GielgudVirgil
- Joanne WhalleyBeatrice
- Bob PeckDante
- Laurie BoothCerberus
- Susan WooldridgeLucy
- Susan CrowleyFrancesca
- Robert EddisonCharon
- David AttenboroughHimself
- David RudkinHimself
- Tom PhillipsHimself
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- Tom PhillipsDirector
- Peter GreenawayDirector
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