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| Distributed by | Hallmark American Zoetrope |
| Directed by | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Produced by | Nicholas Meyer Francis Ford Coppola Dyson Lovell |
| Written by | Homer Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Starring | Armand Assante Greta Scacchi Isabella Rossellini Vanessa L. Williams |
| Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
| Cinematography | Sergei Kozlov |
| Editing by | Michael Ellis |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Release date | May 18, 1997 |
| Running time | 176 min. |
The Odyssey is a 1997 Emmy award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated[1] American television miniseries. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the miniseries aired in two-parts beginning on May 18, 1997 on NBC. The series later won the award for "Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special". The series is based on the ancient Greek epic poem, The Odyssey, which is usually attributed to Homer. It was filmed in Malta and Turkey, as well as many other places around the Mediterranean Sea, where the story takes place, plus parts of England. The international all-star cast includes Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Irene Pappas, Isabella Rosselini, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Lee, and Vanessa L. Williams.
The DVD is currently available as a double feature CLASSIC ADVENTURES collection with RHI Entertainment's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.
The creature effects for this miniseries were provided by Jim Henson's Creature Shop where they used a talking animatronic pig roasting on a spit, a CGI for Scylla, a rod puppet sea slug-like sea monster that devours Laocoön, and the full-bodied version of Polyphemus.
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The miniseries follows the story of The Odyssey, about King Odysseus, on his decade-long return from the Trojan War to his homeland of Ithaca in Greece.
As well as the Odyssey, the series takes some scenes from Homer's other epic poem, the Iliad, and others from Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid. The story follows Odysseus as he leads his men into the Trojan War, is cursed with wandering the Earth by Poseidon, the lord of the seas, battles monsters including Scylla and the cyclops Polyphemus and the forces of nature as he goes to his home and to his wife Penelope.
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