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The Odyssey (TV miniseries)
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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
Distributed by Hallmark
American Zoetrope
Release date(s) May 18, 1997
Running time 176 min.
Country




Language English

The Odyssey is an Emmy award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated [1] miniseries on NBC from 1997, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky who 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. For its DVD release, The Odyssey has been edited into a 3-hour film. The DVD has since been discontinued.

Plot
The miniseries follows the story of The Odyssey, about King Odysseus, on his two 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.