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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.

Release: 1965-11-14
Runtime: 46 min
Cast
Leo McKern
Leo McKern
Socrates
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett
Eryximachus
John Fortune
John Fortune
Phaedrus
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Barry Justice
Agathon
Michael Gough
Michael Gough
Pausanias
Robert Gillespie
Robert Gillespie
Alcibiades
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Aristophanes
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Julian Jebb
Aristomedus
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Darroll Richards
Waiter