The Odyssey
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| Released | May 18 & 19, 1997 (miniseries) |
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| Director | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Written by | Andrei Konchalovsky, Chris Solimine (teleplay), Homer (epic poem) |
| Original music by | Edward Artemyev |
| Studio | Hallmark Entertainment |
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The Odyssey is an epic two-part miniseries, similar to Gulliver's Travels, adapting the Greek epic poem of the same name. The production aired over NBC and was executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. Jim Henson's Creature Shop provided an array of creature effects, including a talking animatronic pig roasting on a spit, the CG creature Scylla, a rod-puppet se slug who devours the prophet Laocoon, and a full-bodied cyclops, performed by sumo wrestler Reid Asato.
Cast
- Armand Assante as Odysseus
- Greta Scacchi as Penelope
- Geraldine Chaplin as Eurycleia
- Jeroen Krabbe as King Alcinous
- Christopher Lee as Tiresias
- Irene Papas as Anticlea
- Bernadette Peters as Circe
- Michael J. Pollard as Aeolus
- Eric Roberts as Eurymachus
- Isabella Rossellini as Athena
- Vanessa Williams as Calypso
