The Odyssey is a 1997 Emmy award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American television miniseries. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the miniseries aired in two-parts beginning on May 18, 1997 on NBC. The series later won the award for "Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special". The series is based on the ancient Greek epic poem, The Odyssey, which is usually attributed to Homer. It was filmed in Malta and Turkey, as well as many other places around the Mediterranean Sea, where the story takes place, plus parts of England. The international all-star cast includes Armand Assante,... Greta Scacchi, Irene Pappas, Isabella Rosselini, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Lee, and Vanessa L. Williams. The creature effects for this miniseries were provided by Jim Henson's Creature Shop where they used a talking animatronic pig roasting on a spit, a CGI for Scylla, a rod puppet sea slug-like sea monster that devours Laocoön, and the full-bodied version of Polyphemus. Odysseus , the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Ithaca, is called to service in the Trojan War right after the birth of his son Telemachus much to the dismay of his wife Queen Penelope .
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| Release date: | May 18, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 176 Minutes |
| Producer: | Dyson Lovell, Francis Ford Coppola, Nicholas Meyer |
| Music by: | Eduard Artemyev |
| Screenplay by: | Chris Solimine, Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Adapted from: | Odyssey |
| Genre: | Adventure, Fantasy |