The Drinking Party (1965)
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.
- Date of release
- 1965-11-14
- Runtime
- 46m
- Director
- Jonathan Miller
Casting
- Leo McKern — Socrates
- Alan Bennett — Eryximachus
- John Fortune — Phaedrus
- Barry Justice — Agathon
- Michael Gough — Pausanias
- Robert Gillespie — Alcibiades
- Roddy Maude-Roxby — Aristophanes
- Julian Jebb — Aristomedus
- Darroll Richards — Waiter
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