L'Odissea
- Bekim Fehmiu: Odysseus
- Irene Papas: Penelope
- Renaud Verley: Telemachus
- Roy Purcell: Alkinoos
- Marina Berti: Arete
- Scilla Fork: Helene
- Barbara Bach: Nausicaa (as Barbara Gregorini )
- Juliette Mayniel: Circe
- Ivo Pajer: Eurylochus
- Samson Burke: Polyphemus
- Fausto Tozzi: Menelaus
- Jaspar of Oertzen: Nestor
- Karl- Otto Alberty: Eurymach
- Rolf Boysen: Agamemnon
- Andrea Saric: Melantho
The Odyssey is the title of a multi-part television film, which was broadcast by ZDF in 1968 in Italy, under the original title L' Odissea from RAI and 1969 in Germany. In addition to Italy were represented in the production of Germany, France and Yugoslavia. The Odyssey has been shown in Italy in six and in Germany in four, small fragmentary parts. In Italy and Spain the film was shown in the cinema.
The plot closely follows the eponymous epic Odyssey of Homer. This " elaborate scenes mixed with a read aloud original " be.
Action
At the beginning of the film, the camera displays modern photographs of the ruins of Troy.
Soon there is a more than 3000 -year-old flashback and the film begins with a narration that uses the first of the 24 songs of the Odyssey and in the further course again and again continue the action, which is illustrated with elaborately staged actions.
The Odyssey closely follows the course of the presentation and will remain in their complex structure with many flashbacks and parallel actions. The medium "television" but according gathered and cut a lot and there is the setting own priorities.
The voice of the narrator comes in the original Italian by Giuseppe Ungaretti, in the German version of Leonard Steckel.
Background
The Odyssey was a milestone in the history of Italian television represents the economic magnitude and scope of international co-production were hitherto unequaled. About Italy, the television movie became the prototype of the major international co-productions. In Germany, the series was broadcast on 19 October 1969 to November 9, 1969 at ZDF and repeated after two years at the time of the annual change of 27 December 1971 to 30 December 1971.
The Polyphemus scene was directed by Mario Bava.
Reception in Italy
In Italy ran in eight episodes of The Odyssey in the national program of the channel RAI on Sunday, March 24, 1968 at. Broadcasting was respectively 21.05 clock. The last two episodes have been summarized on 5 May 1968.
In Italy, saw an average of 16.6 million viewers each episode.
Despite the great success with the public, the resonance at the television critics were mixed. The miniseries was indeed " sophisticated " or even "spectacular ". On the other hand, the writer Giovanni Perego spoke of a " fight between Homer and the television." "Complexity and literary force " of the original had been lost.
DVD Release
Since 2006, a full-length DVD release with Italian and German language is available. The abridged from the German television broadcasting passages are inserted with Italian original in the German version.