The Illiac Passion (1967)
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.
Year
1967
Country
US
Language
English
Release date
30 December 1967
TMDB
4.3 (7)
CineVerse
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R
Richard Beauvais
Prometheus
D
David Beauvais
Prometheus' Conscience
R
Robert Alvarez
Narcissus
Taylor Mead
The Demon or Sprite
S
Sheila Gary
Echo
P
Peggy Murray
The Muse
T
Tom Venturi
Hyacinthus
Tally Brown
Venus
K
Kenneth King
Adonis
G
Gerard Malanga
Ganymede
J
Jan Chippman
Eurydice
Andy Warhol
Poseidon
P
Phillip Klass
Daedalus
M
Margot Brier
Pandora
Paul Swan
Zeus
W
Wayne Weber
Icarus
C
Carlos Anduze
Hades
S
Stella Dundas
The Moon Goddess
J
John Dowd
Endymion
P
Philip Merker
Apollo
Beverly Grant
Persephone
C
Clara Hoover
Io
G
Gregory Battcock
Phaeton
P
Philip Fagan
Cupid
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Narrator / The Filmmaker
Jack Smith
Orpheus
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