Macbeth

Macbeth is a 1971 film directed by Roman Polanski, based on William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, about the Scots Lord who becomes King of Scotland through deceit, treachery, and murder. It features Jon Finch as Macbeth and Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth. For cinematic purposes, passages from the original play were cut for time and some soliloquies changed to inner monologues for the sake of psychologic realism. The film's bleak ending i... more

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  • Oct 13, 1971

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  • 2 h 20 min

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Roman Polański

Roman Raymond Polanski (Polish: Roman Rajmund Polański; born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically-acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polanski's first feature-length...

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Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth, commonly just Macbeth, is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. The earliest account of a performance of what was likely Shakespeare's play...
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