The Odyssey 1997
Created by Andrei Konchalovsky
- Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
- 88 min episodes
- 1 season
- 2 episodes
- Ended
- TV-14
Warrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Following victory, he now must endure a lengthy, decade-long return journey, and with all his wits, overcome deadly monsters, powerful forces of nature, seductive enchantresses, and even journey into the bowels of the Underworld.
Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDramamythologygreek mythologyseductiongodbattlefieldminiseriesancient greecevoyagemythicalmythical fantasyhistorical fantasyclassical worldNBC
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Character
Earnest, epic, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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Cast
- Armand AssanteOdysseus
- Greta ScacchiPenelope
- Geraldine ChaplinEurycleia
- Isabella RosselliniAthena
- Eric RobertsEurymachus
- Bernadette PetersCirce
- Jeroen KrabbéAlcinous
- Irene PapasAnticlea
- Christopher LeeTiresias
- Vanessa WilliamsCalypso
Crew
- Andrei KonchalovskyCreator
- Andrei KonchalovskyDirector
- Sergei KozlovDirector of Photography
- Eduard ArtemyevOriginal Music Composer
- Michael EllisEditor
- Dyson LovellProducer
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Seasons
- Miniseries2 eps · 1997
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