The Illiac Passion

The Illiac Passion 1967 Directed by Gregory J. Markopoulos

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.

Country USA

Production Country USA

Language English

Spoken Language English

Gneres Drama , Fantasy

Release Date 30 December 1967

90 mins