A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.
Direction
Rossellini's minimalist staging lets words devastate.
Acting
Jean Sylvère's Socrates: annoying, brilliant, utterly human.
Production
Shot on real Greek locations with non-professional cast.
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rossellini made this for Italian television as part of his educational history cycle — deliberately anti-Hollywood, anti-spectacle.
The cast was largely non-professionals; Plato was played by a Spanish philosophy student Rossellini found on location.
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