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title: 'Prometheus (1998)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Tony Harrison'
released: '1998-01-01'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/prometheus-1998'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119956/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Prometheus (1998)

1998 · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Prometheus is a 1998 film-poem created by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison. The film-poem examines the political and social issues connected to the fall of the working class in England, amidst the more general phenomenon of the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe, using the myth of Prometheus as a metaphor for the struggles of the working class and the devastation brought on by political conflict and unfettered industrialisation. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and was also shown at the Locarno Film Festival. It was used by Harrison to highlight the plight of the workers both in Europe and in Britain. His film-poem begins in a post-industrialist wasteland in Yorkshire, the fallout from an historic confrontation between British miners and the government of Margaret Thatcher. It has been described as "the most important artistic reaction to the fall of the British working class" of the late twentieth century.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Tony Harrison](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-harrison)
- **Screenplay:** [Tony Harrison](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-harrison)

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