A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

1h

Drama

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).

Production Companies

Artifax

CAL Videographics Ltd.

Channel 4 Television

Dante B.V.

Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer

KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production

RM Associates

VPRO

Cast

John Gielgud

John Gielgud

Virgil (voice)
Bob Peck

Bob Peck

Dante (voice)

Release date

6th Mar 1991

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English