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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
📅 Tuesday, 5 September 1995⏱️ 52m
🎬 Directed by Coky Giedroyc
★ 7.0
★★★★★
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Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire and why his theatrical innovations are still staples of the contemporary theatre.
Cast & Crew

Robert Glenister
Aristophanes

Frances Barber
Adonia

Patrick Barlow
Cephisophon

Rosalie Crutchley
Aristophanes' mother

Dexter Fletcher
Aristophanes' son

Robert Pugh
Cleon

Suzy Eddie Izzard
Socrates

Richard Strange
Pericles
🎬 Directed byCoky Giedroyc
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