Kirk Douglas starred in the 1954 Italian film "Ulysses," Armand Assante was Odysseus in the 1997 TV miniseries "The Odyssey, and the Coen brothers’ very loosely adapted Homer for the 2000 movie ...
The movie depicts Odysseus not as a “young strapping hero,” director Uberto Pasolini says, but as “a man who has the pain of 20 years of violence, travels and of guilt for what he has done (and) for ...