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The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles

United States, 1973
film

An animated dramatization based on “The Allegory of the Cave” from Book 7 of Plato’s “Republic” illustrating mankind’s esc..

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The Cage (TEFC)

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Closed Mondays

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