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  1. Shexpiru I ne Snilos (2007 Film)

    aka: Shakespeare Could Never Imagine

    Director
    Alexei Zernov

    Musical comedy. After a failed attempt at robbery, a gang of swindlers decide to pose as old Russian vaudevilles. A provincial town awaits the arrival of a touring troupe of famous actors. The swindlers...

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  2. Leviathan Smiles (2006 Television)

    Series
    Deadwood
    Director
    Ed Bianchi

    American television western drama. Concerns Deadwood, Dakota and charts Deadwood’s growth from camp to town incorporating such themes as the setting up of communities and western capitalism. The third...

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  3. Luna Papa (1999 Film)

    aka: Lunnyy Papa

    Director
    Bakhytar Khudojnazarov
    Producer
    Bakhytar Khudojnazarov; Philippe Avril; Karl Baumgartner; Thomas Koerfer; Heinz Stussak; Igor Tolstunov

    Feature film. Comedy-fantasy partly narrated by the unborn baby of a young stagestruck girl who finds herself pregnant following the visit of a touring theatre to the ancient city by the sea which is her...

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  4. Tombstone (1993 Film)

    Director
    George P. Cosmatos
    Producer
    James Jacks; Sean Daniel; Bob Misiorowski

    Feature film. Excessively violent, melodramatic, fanciful and overlong retelling of the Wyatt Earp legend. Includes an early scene in which a young actor in a travelling stage show, playing to a rowdy saloon...

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  5. Dresser, The (1993 Radio)

    Series
    Monday Play, The
    Director
    David Blount

    Radio adaptation of a play written by Ronald Harwood which is based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a Shakespearean company...

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  6. Playboys, The (1992 Film)

    Director
    Gillies MacKinon
    Producer
    Simon Perry; William P. Cartlidge

    Feature film. Set in Ireland in 1957, strong-willed Tara (Wright) is an unmarried mother who refuses to name the father of her child and is therefore seen as shameful by the townsfolk. When a troupe of...

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  7. Nobody’s Fool (1986 Film)

    Director
    Evelyn Purcell
    Producer
    James C. Katz

    Feature film. A withdrawn girl who becomes pregnant by her boyfriend is shunned by the people in her small American town of Buckeye Basin. After the baby has been put up for adoption she escapes to the world...

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  8. Dans la Poussiere du Soleil (1971 Film)

    aka: Lust in the Sun

    Director
    Richard Balducci

    Feature film spaghetti-Western based on Hamlet. As he lays dying, killed by his brother Joe, Willie Hawk asks his son, Hawk, to revenge his death. Hawk’s meditative nature lead the townsfolk to think him...

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  9. Gori, Gori, Moja Swesda (1969 Film)

    aka: Shine, Star, Shine!

    Director
    Alexander Mitta

    Feature film. A heroic comic fantasy about an artist’s destiny at the tumultuous time of social transformation three years after the October Revolution. In a town square, a solo-performance based on...

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  10. 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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