The Odyssey
18/05/1997



In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a decade long quest to reach home after the Trojan war, overcoming savage monsters, powerful forces of nature, and seductive nymphs, and he must outsmart them all, with all the guile and intellect he can muster.
Cast


Armand Assante
Odysseus


Greta Scacchi
Penelope


Isabella Rossellini
Athena


Bernadette Peters
Circe


Eric Roberts
Eurymachus


Irene Papas
Anticleia


Jeroen Krabbé
King Alcinous


Geraldine Chaplin
Eurycleia


Vanessa Williams
Calypso


Christopher Lee
Tiresias


Nicholas Clay
Menelaus
Adoni Anastassopoulos
Perimedes


Paloma Baeza
Melanthe


Ron Cook
Eurybates


Reid Asato
Cyclops


William Houston
Anticlus
Josh Maguire
Young Telemachus


Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Polites


Miles Anderson
Poseidon


Pat Kelman
Elatus
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