The Odyssey

Released	May 18 & 19, 1997 (miniseries)
Director	Andrei Konchalovsky
Written by	Andrei Konchalovsky, Chris Solimine (teleplay), Homer (epic poem)
Music	Edward Artemyev
Studio	Hallmark Entertainment

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 sea slug-like sea monster who devours the prophet Laocoon, and a full-bodied version of the 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
• Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Polites
• Reid Asato as Cyclops
  • David Barclay as Cyclops (face operator)
• Heathcote Williams as Laocoon
• Freddy Douglas as Hermes
• Miles Anderson as Poseidon

External Links

• The Odyssey at Internet Movie Database