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Documentary. Study of the psychology of the actors in a performance of Romeo and Juliet in Prague, their insistence on tolerance, and projection of their private lives.
Film based on Hamlet. No further information known (12/2007).
Fiction short. A post-modern adaptation of the play.
Feature film. A re-working in film noir style of Hamlet. Old Hamlet is president of a Helsinki timber mining and shipping empire. He is poisoned by his managing director, Klaus (Salminen), so that he and...
Feature film. A comedy drama set in German-occupied Warsaw in World War II. Stars Jack Benny as Joseph Tura, the principal actor in a Polish troupe performing Hamlet. The film was controversial, not least in...
A series of four films using still drawings from a number of artists to accompany poetry readings. Sponsored by the British Film Institute and produced by Halas and Batchelor for the Festival of Britain,...
Feature film. Adaptation of Macbeth filmed in Faux Cap, Madagascar and acted (largely improvised) by Antroyds, a local tribe of fishermen.
Feature film. An Indian version of Hamlet believed to have been based on a stage production. Adapted by Amanot Hasrat and E.D. Verma. Many scenes are transposed and the parts of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern...
Television documentary aimed at getting young people engaged with Shakespeare’s language. Over the past year thousands of secondary schoolchildren took part in a competition to learn some of...
Fiction short. Filmed in in March and April, 1967, as an episode for CAPRICCIO ALL’ ITALIANA. Pasolini transforms Shakespeare’s Othello into a laconic Italian puppet-show comedy with live marionettes...
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