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Characters from the Country [9/5/1938] (1938 Radio)

Series

Characters from the Country

Rural documentary series. In this episode Graham Castle, secretary of the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, presents the Uley Village Players, an amateur Shakespeare company from the county. He...

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Othello in Jonesville (1913 Film)

aka: Othello Au Village

Director

Charles Seay

Comedy short. An unemployed actor offers a stagestruck young woman and her family acting lessons in exchange for free board and lodging. They attempt a performance of Othello at the town hall which turns out...

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Souli (2003 Film)

Director

Alexander Abela

Producer

Alexander Abela; Duthoit. Christophe

A post-colonial version of Othello transposed to a remote Madagascan fishing village. Abela condenses the action into five characters and little is spoken. Souli (Makena) is a poet, only writing for himself....

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Vizkereszt (1967 Film)

aka: Epiphany

Director

Sandor Sara

Producer

Sandor Sara

Documentary short. The traditions of a Hungarian village in winter, including the visit of a group of travelling theatre players who come to perform Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

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Village Romeo and Juliet, A (1948 Radio)

Studio performance of the music drama by Delius, a six-scene opera about lovers from feuding families set in the pastures of the Swiss Alps based on the novel by Gottfried Keller.

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Hamlet (1915 Film)

Series

Shakespeare Minced

Producer

Will Kellino

Comedy burlesque. The Mudford Amateur Dramatic Society stages Hamlet. The village doctor (Claudius) is called away during a performance and changes into everyday clothes in front of the audience; the Ghost...

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Romeo und Julia auf Dem Dorfe (1941 Film)

aka: Romeo and Juliet in the Village

Director

Hans Trommer; Valerien Schmidely

Producer

Conrad Arthur Schlaepfer

Feature film based on the novel by Gottfried Keller. In a farming community in Switzerland, Vreni and Sali are inseparable as children. Their families find themselves in conflict over land belonging to the...

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Barravento (1961 Film)

aka: Tempest, The

Director

Glauber Rocha

Producer

Brag Neto; Rex Schindler

Feature film. loosely based on The Tempest directed by Glauber Rocha. Concerns the efforts of Firmino, part revolutionary, part devil, to free the fishermen in his native Bahian village from capitalist...

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Hamlet, We wsi Glucha Dolna (1987 Film, Television)

aka: Hamlet in the Middle of Nowhere

Director

Olga Lipinska

Made for television film. The play is set in the late 1940s, and tells the story about an official in a small mountain village and his attempt to put on a production of Hamlet. It was interpreted as a sharp...

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Predstava Hamleta U Selu Mrdsu Donja (1973 Film)

aka: Village Performance of Hamlet, A

Director

Krsto Papic

Producer

Sulejman Kapic

Feature film based on the play by Ivo Bresan. The president of the peasants’ collective celebrates the anniversary by producing Hamlet. As rehearsals continue, the peoples’ lives develop parallel to...

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