Movie

The Illiac Passion

★ 4.3/10 · 7 votes 1967 1h 30m Released

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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.

Cast

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