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