Movie: Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision

Top 5 Billed Cast

Marian Seldes
Marian Seldes

Narrator (voice)

Corey Burton
Corey Burton

Ernst Haeckel (voice)

Richard Dysart
Richard Dysart

The Ancient Mariner (voice)

Phil Proctor
Phil Proctor

Wolfgang von Goethe (voice)

James Warwick
James Warwick

Log of HMS Challenger (voice)

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    The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and visionary fusion of science and art.

  • Release Date

    2004-01-01

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