On the occasion of Dante’s 750th anniversary, the IIC presents a special screening of Dante’s Inferno – Abandon All Hope, and Dante’s Hell Animated.Director Boris Acosta and film cast will participate into a Q&A moderated by Prof. Massimo Ciavolella, Director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.A special thanks to Pasquini Coffee and Ventura Limoncello.
Please note that this program substitutes the SALVI Harp Series concert with Jillian Risigari-Gai that was cancelled due to technical reasons.
Dante’s Inferno – Abondon All Hope
(2010, 40′) narrated byJeff Conaway and featuring
most of Gustave Dore’s lithograph illustrations and clips from”L’Inferno”, 1911 first Italian feature in history.
(2014, 38′) presented by Armand Mastroianni
and featuring the voices of Eric Roberts as
Dante, Vincent Spano as Virgil, Nia Peeples as Beatrice and also Jeff Conaway, Hélène Cardona, Adrian Paul, Al Sapienza and Shirly Brener, among many celebrities.