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  1. King Lear (1976 Film)

    Director
    Steven Rumbelow

    A reworking of the play, based on the Triple Action Theatre Group’s 1973 stage production. Rumbelow sees the play as a conflict between man, nature and the supernatural, and so insisted that it was filmed...

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  2. Korol Lir (1971 Film)

    aka: Korol Lir

    Director
    Grigori Kozintsev

    Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...

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  3. Julius Caesar (1970 Film, Video)

    Director
    Stuart Burge
    Producer
    Peter Snell

    A feature film which grew out of Stuart Burge’s experience in directing a BBC television version of the play in 1959, as well as a subsequent London stage production. The pedestrian production was...

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  4. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1968 Film)

    Director
    Peter Hall
    Producer
    Michael Birkett

    Feature film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Eliminating cinematic narrative and theatrical staging the film was harshly treated by the critics.

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  5. Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1965 Film, Video)

    aka: Lustigen Weiber von Windsor

    Director
    Georg Tressler
    Producer
    Norman Foster

    Otto Nicolai’s 1948 opera, translated and adapted by Norman Foster with the Zagreb Symphony Orchestra.

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  6. Shakespeare Wallah (1965 Film)

    Director
    James Ivory
    Producer
    Ismail Merchant

    Feature film. An English troupe of actors tour post-Raj India staging performances of Shakespeare to dwindling audiences as British dominance of, and interest in, British culture fades. The film is an ironic...

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  7. Gamlet (1964 Film)

    aka: Hamlet

    Director
    Grigori Kozintsev

    Feature film version of the play, with a heavily cut text based on Pasternak’s translation. The political stance of the film-maker is to the fore, and the cinematography stark and elemental. recently...

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  8. Class, The (1961 Film, Television)

    Series
    Monitor
    Director
    John Schlesinger

    Presents a series of exercises relating to basic acting problems. Shows the work of a first-year group of students at the Central School of Speech and Drama; their activities guided by the actor Harold Lang....

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  9. Sibirska Ledi Magbet (1961 Film)

    aka: Siberian Lady Macbeth, The Fury is a Woman

    Director
    Andrzej Wajda

    An adaptation of the 19th-century Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov’s transposition of Macbeth to the Siberia of his time. Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, also served as inspiration for Shostakovitch’s...

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  10. Sen Noci Svatojanske (1958 Film)

    aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, A

    Director
    Jiri Trnka
    Producer
    Jiri Trnka

    Trnka’s puppet pantomime, based on Shakespeare’s play, with dubbed-in English voices.

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