Learning on ScreenWilliam Shakespeare’s Henry V
- Alternative title
- Henry V
- Synopsis
- Independent film directed by Peter Babakitis which offers parallels with Western colonialism and the invasion of Iraq.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 2008
- Duration
- 157 mins
Credits
- Director
- Peter Babakitis
- Producer
- Peter Babakitis
- Cinematographer
- Christine Cannavo; Rick Santangelo
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Peter Babakitis
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Historical period
- Medieval
- Plays
- Henry V
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Produced 2004. Estimated budget: $750,000.
- General
- The DVD cover contains the line ‘Warrior, Champion, Terrorist, King’.
- Stills
- " We only know of life in the Middle Ages from accounts, paintings and the few things they left behind, explains Mr. Babakitis, I decided to base the visual style of Henry V on the paintings of the 15th Century: Van der Weyden, Bosch, Van Eyck, Fouquet. I felt that these characters in Shakespeare’s play are somehow trapped within their history, and I think that Shakespeare felt this way about them. The new digital technology allows me to compose my scenes as the medieval painters did, using objects as graphic elements, altering space and time and implying a kind of ever present supernatural element".
- Reviews
- Hatchuel, Sarah. ‘Into a thousand parts divide one man’: Dehumanised Metafiction and Fragmented Documentary in Peter Babakitis’ Henry V.' in Mark Thornton Burnett & Ramona Wray Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty First Century. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), pp. 146-62.
Online Availability
- Online URL
- http://www.henrythefifth.com
Production Company
Online Retailer
- Name
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- Web
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