Someone is Sleeping in My Pain: An East-West Macbeth

Synopsis: Feature film. A story of an American film director (Smith) who travels to Yemen to film an Arabic version of Macbeth among Yemeni tribal warriors. "The appeal of this Macbeth adaption is in making the difficulties of its realisation into the film’s subject. The circumstances of the shooting provide the framework for the film in film, the South Arabian Macbeth," he [Hagbeck] continues. "The boundaries between the documentation of the work and the staged story become increasingly blurred. The action of the feature film is reflected in the way it is produced, in the Macbeth-like ambition of the director. What was thought at the beginning of the film as being a naïve equation of a contemporary traditional culture with a poetic invention, develops into a dramatic debate between reality and projection, reality and the mise-en-scène." [www.hagbeck.com].
Language: English
Country: United States; Yemen
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2002
Availability: No archive copy or distributor found (2007)
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: ethnology; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Yemen; Multiculturalism