Dante'a Apocalypse Now

Join us for an intriguing talk by Italian filmmaker Max Leonida:

Dante's Odyssey: An Apocalypse Now Tales from an inner journey

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021 at 6:30 pm PST via Zoom - in English

Originally & loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic war film is the arrival point of an artistic & spiritual thread that connects Homer’s Odyssey, Dante’s Divine Comedy & Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. The intimate connection between these three masterpieces will be fully explained & revealed, strongly corroborated by literary sources, historical facts, philosophical phenomena & cultural references.

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