The Odyssey
The Odyssey
1997
Drama, Fantasy
TV Mini-Series
This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient epic--replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat--chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed! (imdb)
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Directed by:
Andrey Konchalovskiy
50 total credits
Credits include: Tango & Cash, Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood and Runaway Train
Writers:
Andrey Konchalovskiy 50 total credits
Credits include: Tango & Cash, Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood and Runaway Train
Starring:
Geraldine Chaplin
101 total credits
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Credits include: Z, The Guns of Navarone, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The Message and Zorba the Greek
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Franchise:
The Odyssey
Ratings & Reviews
Odysseus, the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Ithaca, is called to service in the Trojan War after the birth of his son Telemachus, much to the dismay of his wife Queen Penelope. Odysseus is worried that he may not return, and tells Penelope that she should remarry by the time Telemachus is a man if he does not return. The war lasts ten years, during which Greece's best soldier, Achilles, is killed and the Greeks avenge him by using a giant horse to sneak inside and destroy the city of Troy
The greatest epic of the ancient world, Homer's Odyssey, is now magnificently recreated for television. Homer's tale recounts the journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca & mastermind of the Greek victory in the Trojan war. Odysseus, known as a man of exceptional cunning & ingenuity, leaves his wife, Penelope & infant son, Telemachus, for what becomes a ten-year siege of the distant city of Troy. Odysseus forms the famous plan to infiltrate the city with a giant wooden horse filled with Greek soldier
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Directed by:
Andrey Konchalovskiy 50 total credits
Credits include: Tango & Cash, Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood and Runaway Train
Writers:
Andrey Konchalovskiy 50 total credits
Credits include: Tango & Cash, Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood and Runaway Train
Starring:
Geraldine Chaplin 101 total credits
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an American-born British actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill. She made her film debut in the elder Chaplin's Limelight (1952) as a dancer. She also played a small role in her father's last film, Countess From Hong Kong (1964). In addition to her busy film career, Chaplin also appeared on-stage and in television miniseries such as Gulliver's Travels (1996) and The Odyssey (1997). Though she has often played leads roles in many films.
37 total credits
Credits include: The Jerk, Anastasia, Annie, Alice and The Longest Yard
65 total credits
Credits include: Flightplan, The Player, The Red Violin, Presumed Innocent and Emma
112 total credits
Italian actress and model who has made her home in America since 1979 and holds dual Italian and American citizenship, was born cinema royalty. The daughter of two legends, three-time Oscar-winning actress Ingrid Bergman and neo-realist master director Roberto Rossellini. She was also the third wife of Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982 and the partner of legendary director David Lynch.
56 total credits
Credits include: Ocean's Twelve, The Fugitive, Transporter 3, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and The Living Daylights
364 total credits
Credits include: The Dark Knight, The Cable Guy, The Expendables, Inherent Vice and The Specialist
90 total credits
Armand Anthony Assante, Jr. is an American actor. During the 1970s, Assante was a regular on two NBC soap operas, How to Survive a Marriage as Johnny McGee and The Doctors as Dr. Mike Powers. His first film was The Lords of Flatbush (1974), although the title credits misspelled his last name as Assanti. A role that brought him greater attention came in 1980's Private Benjamin as a handsome Frenchman who becomes the love interest of a U.S. soldier played by Goldie Hawn...(Wikipedia)
236 total credits
Lee had numerous parts in film and television throughout the 1950s but didn't achieve stardom until his association with Hammer Film Productions, which started with The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), all co-starring Peter Cushing...
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Credits include: Z, The Guns of Navarone, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The Message and Zorba the Greek
62 total credits
Credits include: Eraser, Candyman, Shaft, Candyman and New Jack City
Franchise:
The Odyssey
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