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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Has anyone ever made a movie of Dante's Divine Comedy? It seems tailor-made for today's technology. Although I could never see it attaining mass appeal if they retained all the poetry of the original, the book could easily, IMHO, be converted into a winning screenplay.
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These are two that I found; I haven't seen either of them and am not necessarily recommending them, as such, but letting you know about them. I have been thinking of reading Divine Comedy myself and may watch the first one listed below after first reading Dante's work. The first one may be the best one (?).
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L'Inferno is a 1911 silent film by Giuseppe de Liguoro, loosely adapted from Dante's The Divine Comedy.
L'Inferno was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercandante on March 10, 1911. The film took over three years to make and was the first full-length Italian feature film ever made. The film was an international success, taking more than $2 million in the United States alone. It is considered by many scholars and fans as being the finest film adaptation of Dante's work to date.
The film was released on DVD in 2004, with a score by Tangerine Dream. Although TD's score was not composed specifically for the film (it had been released earlier), it fits well. The popularity of Tangerine Dream has certainly helped the sales of the DVD.
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More about this at
imdb and plenty of reviews of Inferno (1911) at
here for its 2006 dvd release.
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Dante's Inferno is a 1935 motion picture loosely based on Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. It is primarily remembered for a 10-minute depiction of hell realised by director Harry Lachman, himself an established post-impressionist painter.
Plot summary
Jim Carter (Tracy) takes over a fairground show illustrating scenes from Dante. An inspector declares the fair unsafe but is bribed by Carter. There is a fatal disaster at the fair during which we see the vision of the Inferno. Carter establishes a new venture with an unsafe floating casino.
Cast
* Spencer Tracy as Jim Carter
* Claire Trevor as Betty McWade
* Henry B. Walthall as Pop McWade
* Alan Dinehart as Jonesy
* Scotty Beckett as Alexander Carter (as Scott Beckett)
* Robert Gleckler as Dean
* Rita Hayworth as Dancer (as Rita Cansino)
* Gary Leon as Dancer
* Willard Robertson as Building Inspector Harris
* Morgan Wallace as Captain Morgan
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About this at
imdb.
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At
this wikipedia page under "
Performing Arts" there are additional very loosely based or inspired by works relating to Dante's Divine Comedy, and also some that refer to it. It would indeed seem time for a movie or screenplay of the Divine Comedy more closely based to the original to be created.