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Prince of Jutland (1993 Film, Video)

aka: Royal Deceit

Director

Gabriel Axel

Producer

Kees Kasander

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col. 110 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

An interpretation of the Hamlet story, based on the 6th-century Danish source Chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, a possible source for Shakespeare’s play. Prince Amled (Bale) witnesses his father’s murder...

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Prospero’s Books (1991 Film)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Kees Kasander

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 121 minutes), £15.99

Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...

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TV Dante, A: ‘The Inferno’ Cantos I-Viii (1989 Video)

Director

Peter Greenaway; Tom Philips

Producer

Kees Kasander; Denis Wigman

Subject

English language and literature; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., £15.99 (inc. VAT)

A dramatisation using state-of-the-art visual techniques of Dante’s vision of hell, where figures from Dante’s own time mix with mythological and biblical characters as they suffer for their sins. Dante...

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