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Short documentary film about Werner Schroeter’s theatre production of King Lear at the Duesseldorfer Schauspielhaus in Germany in 1990. The production was noted mostly for its display of nudity and sexual...
Television programme. A performance of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman, is interwoven with animated characters from...
Televised recording of a performance of the play directed by Klaus Dieter Kirst for the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. With Hanns-Joern Weber as Leontes, Hannelore Koch as Hermione and Regina Jaska as Paulina.
Fiction short. "A son, lost in the world and pining for truth, looks for answers to life’s biggest questions from his dead father. This is a modern and intimate take on Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, ‘To...
Farce. The relationship to Othello has not been ascertained but is included because of the title which translates as ‘Flypaper Othello’.
Feature film. Concerns the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman (Fonda) and Julia (Redgrave), a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while...
Fritz Kortner performs a soliloquy of Shylock for a vinyl recording. A camera team films him in performance.
German radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy adapted and produced for broadcasting by Willi Schmidt. With Max Eckard as Benedikt and Julia Costa as Beatrice.
German television documentary. Documentary about the work of Bernhard Minetti focusing on his portrayals of Lear. It draws on his 1985 production at the Schaubühne am Lehninger Platz, Berlin directed by...
Radio programme in which Winston Churchill’s nephew, Giles Romilly, talks about some of the impressions left by reading Shakespeare’s plays during his solitary confinement as a POW at Tittmoning castle,...
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