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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

1995
Directed byCoky Giedroyc
0h 52m

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.

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Robert GlenisterAristophanesFrances BarberAdoniaPatrick Barlow
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Cephisophon
Rosalie CrutchleyAristophanes' mother
Dexter FletcherAristophanes' son
Robert PughCleon
Eddie IzzardSocrates
Richard StrangePericles
Ewen Bremner
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
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ComedyHistory
STATUSReleased
RATING
7.0

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