The Illiac Passion

Dec 30, 1967

1h 30m

★ 4.2

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Fantasy

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Cast

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Richard Beauvais

Prometheus' Conscience

David Beauvais

Narcissus

Robert Alvarez

The Demon or Sprite

Taylor Mead

Echo

Sheila Gary

The Muse

Peggy Murray

Hyacinthus

Tom Venturi

Venus

Tally Brown

Adonis

Kenneth King

Ganymede

Gerard Malanga

Eurydice

Jan Chippman

Poseidon

Andy Warhol

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