Learning on ScreenRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Synopsis
- Tom Stoppard’s film adaptation of his play based on characters in Hamlet.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film; Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1990
- Duration
- 118 mins; 10,592 feet
Credits
- Director
- Tom Stoppard
- Producer
- Emanuel Azenberg; Michael Brandman
- Cinematographer
- Peter Biziou
- Screenplay
- Tom Stoppard
- Music
- Stanley Myers
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Hamlet
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- Related items
- Theatres
Notes
- Figures
- Total domestic gross $739,104 (US) Box Office Mojo 2005
- Awards
- Golden Lion Award 1990 - Venice Film Festival. Daniel Rosenthal in Shakespeare on Screen (London: Hamlyn, 2000) notes that the last Shakespeare film to win the Golden Lion was Olivier’s HAMLET (1948) which cut the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scenes.
- Documentation
- A study guide is available free of charge from Film Education.
- Reviews
- Reviewed in Sight and Sound, June 1991, p58.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Wheeler in Shakespeare on Film Newsletter Vol 16, No 1 (12/91), p5.
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
Second Sight Films Ltd
- info@secondsightfilms.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.secondsightfilms.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 8977 0553
- Fax
- 020 8977 1470
- Address
- 16 Connaught Road
Teddington
London
TW11 0PS - Notes
- A UK DVD distributor of celebrated classics and cult cinema from around the world, as well as some television titles. Sale via retail outlets.
Distributor (Hire)
- Name
BFI Film Bookings Unit
- bookings.films@bfi.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/about-bfi/help-faq/film-bookings External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7957 8938 / 8935
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Buena Vista Home Video
- Address
- Middlesex
TW7 5QD
- Name
Retail outlets
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