The Death of Socrates
– This is the story of the first martyr of free speech. Socrates is on trial for his life. He will be ..
This is the story of the first martyr of free speech. Socrates is on trial for his life. He will be put to death and he knows it. 2500 years later we remember his words. The Death of Socrates was filmed in 10 countries by 23 filmmakers in 7 languages. One character - Socrates, changes from one scene to another from man to woman, young to old, human to animal, but delivering a monologue, broken into 23 chapters. Truth is not found in one person, in one place.
English, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, Japanese
Natasa Prosenc Stearns, Matias Basso, Jonathan Beckhardt, Jessiline Berry, Nancy Buchanan, John Church, Stev Elam, Stephen Gill, Terrance Grace, Jasna Hribernik, Andrew David Irvine, Nancy Kiang, Ruby Kobayashi, Kadet Kuhne, Zmago Lenardic, Angelo Libri, Paolo Marescotti, Denis O'Brien, Walter Romeo, Marco Romero, Wallace Zane, Wilson Stiner
Plato (original story), Benjamin Jowett (translation), Natasa Prosenc Stearns (adaptation), Wallace Zane (adaptation), Terrance Grace (Grace segment), Jessiline Berry (Berry segment), Colin Archdeacon (Berkhardt segment), Nancy Kiang (Kiang segment), Stephen Gill (Gill segment), Wilson Stiner (Stiner segment), Benjamin Brooke (Berkhardt segment), Miranda Seigul (Berkhardt segment), Angelo Libri (Romeo/Libri segment), Walter Romeo (Romeo/Libri segment), Leslie Twitchell (O'Brien segment)
Ray Abruzzo, Jayne Anderson, Kilin Aska, Massimo Ajmone Basso
This is the story of the first martyr of free speech. Socrates is on trial for his life. He will be put to death and he knows it. 2500 years later we remember his words. The Death of Socrates was filmed in 10 countries by 23 filmmakers in 7 languages. One character - Socrates, changes from one scene to another from man to woman, young to old, human to animal, but delivering a monologue, broken into 23 chapters. Truth is not found in one person, in one place.