The Drinking Party (1965)
1965 · 0h 46m
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love before the Don, through a series of questions, reaches a unifying conclusion.
Director: Jonathan Miller
Writers: Jonathan Miller, Leo Aylen
Cast
Leo McKern as SocratesAlan Bennett as EryximachusJohn Fortune as PhaedrusBarry Justice as AgathonMichael Gough as PausaniasRobert Gillespie as AlcibiadesRoddy Maude-Roxby as AristophanesJulian Jebb as AristomedusDarroll Richards as WaiterMore like this
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