Richard Shanks Biography

9.7 The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus2009

Genres: Adventure, Family, Mystery

Director: Terry Gilliam

Artists: Richard Shanks, Richard Riddell, Christopher Plummer, Andrew Garfield

In London, the sideshow troupe of Doctor Parnassus promises to the audiences a journey to the "Imaginarium", an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus where dreams come true. In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, to the midget Percy, and his assistant Anton, he claims to have more than one thousand years; however, when he felt in love for a mortal, he made a deal with the devil Mr. Nick trading his immortality per youth. As part of the bargain, ...