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The Drinking Party (1965)

NR | Nov 14, 1965 (US) | | 00:46

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.

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Leo McKern
Socrates
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Alan Bennett
Eryximachus
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John Fortune
Phaedrus
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Michael Gough
Pausanias
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Robert Gillespie
Alcibiades
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Roddy Maude-Roxby
Aristophanes
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Julian Jebb
Aristomedus

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