The Illiac Passion
1967•1h 30m•4.3•Released
DramaFantasy
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.
Director
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Writer
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Languages
English
Cast
Richard Beauvais
Prometheus
David Beauvais
Prometheus' Conscience
Robert Alvarez
Narcissus
Taylor Mead
The Demon or Sprite
Sheila Gary
Echo
Peggy Murray
The Muse
Tom Venturi
Hyacinthus
Tally Brown
Venus
Kenneth King
Adonis
Gerard Malanga
Ganymede
Jan Chippman
Eurydice
Andy Warhol
Poseidon
Phillip Klass
Daedalus
Margot Brier
Pandora
Paul Swan
Zeus
Production
Producer
Gregory J. Markopoulos
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