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Video recording, using a single camera, of Bernard Sobel’s 1987 production of King Lear at the Schauspielhaus, Zurich with Hans Dieter Zeidler as Lear.
Radio broadcast. Louise Swan surveys film adaptations of Shakespeare, examining the work of directors such as Laurence Olivier, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Derek Jarman, Kozintsev, Max Reinhardt,...
An audio recording of Benno Besson’s 1983 production of Hamlet for the Schauspielhaus, Zurich with Christoph Waltz in the title role.
2-disc set. See individual entries on this database for full details of cast and credits. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935). d. Dierterle. Commentary by film historian Scott Hamilton. Olivia de Havilland...
A German television production of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed for stage by Vera Oelschlegel and for television by Margot Thyret; Helmut Strassburger is Falstaff.
Television version of the play staged for the Phoenix Theatre by Stuart Vaughan and directed for television by Worthington Miner. Donald Davis is King Henry.
Television production of the play, virtually uncut, which incorporates a ballet sequence choreographed by Juan Corelli. The romantic setting, and use of gesture and expression, shows the influence of Reinhardt.
Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...
A version of the play, based on both Cinthio’s original tale and Shakespeare’s play, with echoes of Reinhardt and Expressionism. Emil Jannings is Othello.
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