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A Midsummer Nights Dream (BBC, 1981)

A Midsummer Nights Dream (BBC, 1981) Sleeve

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Film Description

Brian Glover sensibly takes himself very seriously as Bottom and Helen Mirren is at her most seductive as Titania in this superlative adaptation from the BBC Shakespeare series.

 

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Director Elijah Moshinsky
Starring Robert Lindsay, Helen Mirren, Brian Glover, Geoffrey Palmer

 

Genre Television

 

Country UK Language English   Year 1981

 

Technical Details

Certificate U   Length 112 mins   Label DD
Cat No 120839   Format DVD   Colour
Region2    

 

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Article - "Shakespeare on Screen" by Daniel Rosenthal
Sunday 1st August 2004

The DVD reissue of four plays from the landmark BBC Shakespeare project is cause for celebration. With the Kenneth Branagh-inspired Shakespeare movie boom of the 1990s having given way to a drought in the first half of this decade, and the Bard’s work almost totally ...  View article in full

 

 

 

 

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