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.
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
Ewen Bremner
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
2012 · ★ 6.1
1970 · ★ 6.1
2016 · ★ 8.0
2023 · ★ 6.9
2013 · ★ 7.8
2018 · ★ 7.1
2019 · ★ 7.5
1994 · ★ 6.2
1948 · ★ 6.4
2008 · ★ 6.1
2000 · ★ 8.1
1979 · ★ 7.4
2022 · ★ 5.9
1996 · ★ 6.1
2009 · ★ 7.3
2012 · ★ 8.0
2004 · ★ 6.8
2025 · ★ 7.2
2022 · ★ 7.4
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