L'Odissea

L'Odissea
Genre	Mythology, Adventure
Written by	based on Homer's epic poem
Directed by	Franco Rossi
Starring	Bekim Fehmiu Irene Papas Renaud Verley Roy Purcell Marina Berti Scilla Gabel Barbara Bach Juliette Mayniel Kyra Bester Michele Breton Marcella Valeri Constantin Nepo Ivica Pajer Samson Burke Fausto Tozzi
Country of origin	Italy  France  Germany  Yugoslavia
No. of episodes	4-8
Production
Executive producer(s)	Vittorio Bonicelli
Producer(s)	Dino de Laurentiis
Location(s)	Italy Yugoslavia
Running time	446 min.
Broadcast
Original airing	24. march 1968 (RAI)

L'Odissea was an Italian TV miniseries broadcast on RAI (Italian state TV) in 1968 and based on Homer's Odyssey. An Italian, Yugoslavian, German and French (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française) coproduction, it was directed by Franco Rossi, Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava; the cast included Bekim Fehmiu as Ulysses and Irene Papas as Penelope.

Each episode was preceded by an introduction in which Nobel prize-winner poet Giuseppe Ungaretti read some verses of the original poem. The adaptation was quite faithful, apart the absence of the passage of the strait of Messina and the encounter with Scylla and Charybdis.

Special effects were designed by Mario Bava (who, in particular, directed the episode of Polyphemus) and Carlo Rambaldi. The show ran on television in Europe between 1968 and 1970: in the 1970s, it ran in U.S. markets beginning with a run on the CBS Late Movie in 1972.

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