A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of his 14th century epic poem The Divine Comedy. The eight cantos of the film are not conventionally dramatised, rather they are illuminated with layered and juxtaposed imagery while the text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage.

A TV Dante (1990)
06/13/1990 (GB)
01h 28m
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John Gielgud
Virgil

Joanne Whalley
Beatrice

Bob Peck
Dante
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Laurie Booth
Cerberus

Susan Wooldridge
Lucy
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Susan Crowley
Francesca

Robert Eddison
Charon

David Attenborough
Himself

David Rudkin
Himself