An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love before the Don, through a series of questions, reaches a unifying conclusion.
The Drinking Party (1965)
11/14/1965 (GB)
12h 46m
Overview
Director, Writer
Writer
Top Billed Cast
View allLeo McKern
Socrates
Alan Bennett
Eryximachus
John Fortune
Phaedrus
BJ
Barry Justice
Agathon
Michael Gough
Pausanias
Robert Gillespie
Alcibiades
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Aristophanes
JJ
Julian Jebb
Aristomedus
DR
Darroll Richards
Waiter