Dante, the Inferno / Channel Four Television, Elsevier Vendix, VPRO ; produced by Denis Wigman, Kees Kasander ; directed by Tom Phillips, Peter Greenaway.

Radical, new visual techniques are used to bring the first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno to the screen. The film illustrates and complements Dante's text, re-creating a 600 year-old work as a late twentieth century post-modern masterpiece. Eminent scholars in visual sidebars interpret Dante's meta...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:DVD collection (Princeton, N.J.)
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Vendex Film
VPRO
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Other Authors: Wigman, Denis (Producer)
Kasander, Kees (Producer)
Greenaway, Peter (Director)
Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022 (Director)
Gielgud, John, 1904-2000 (Actor)
Peck, Bob, 1945-1999 (Actor)
Whalley, Joanne, 1964- (Actor)
Booth, Laurie (Actor)
Wooldridge, Susan (Actor)
Crowley, Susan (Actor) (Actor)
Eddison, Robert, 1908-1991 (Actor)
Verstegen, Edwin (Cinematographer)
Wilson, John (Film editor)
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, [2004]
Series:DVD collection (Princeton, N.J.)
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Inferno
Dante's Inferno
Format: Video DVD

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