UNITED KINGDOM · 1990

A TV Dante

Name: A TV Dante
Released: 1990

Peter Greenaway

European Art Cinema divine comedy adaptation experimental cinema medieval literature inferno visualization layered imagery

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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 "ta

Year1990

CountryUnited Kingdom

DirectorPeter Greenaway

MovementEuropean Art Cinema

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