Biography: Trevor Nunn |

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Tags: Period Film Tragedy Drama 
Length: 141min
This adaptation of Shakespeare's +Merchant of Venice was directed by Trevor Nunn, who has become one of the most respected British stage directors of his time. The production transplants the setting of the film to Germany on the cusp of World War II,...

Cast: Ben Kingsley William Shakespeare Richard E. Grant Imogen Stubbs Mel Smith Nigel Hawthorne   
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy Romance 
Length: 134min
The classic Shakespearean comedy about mistaken identity and gender confusion is brought to the screen once again in this British production, courtesy of screenwriter-director Trevor Nunn. Nunn has transferred the time period to the Victorian Era of...

Cast: Ira Gershwin Trevor Nunn   
Tags: Musical Film-Opera Musical Drama 
Length: 184min
Trevor Nunn's acclaimed 1993 production of Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin's classic fable of the tragic love affair between crippled Porgy (Willard White) and beautiful but troubled Bess (Cynthia Haymon) was widely acclaimed as one of the definitive...

Cast: John Wood Patrick Stewart Helena Bonham Carter Michael Hordern Cary Elwes Jill Bennett Anne V. Coates Joss Ackland 
Tags: Historical Film Biopic Period Film 
Length: 140min
Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. Lady Jane Grey's sickly cousin, who becomes Edward VI upon the death of Henry VIII, is on the threshold of...

Cast: Glenda Jackson   
Tags: Marriage Drama Feminist Film Drama 
Length: 104min
Hedda is a tasteful, literate cinematic translation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Glenda Jackson plays Hedda, the restless, free-spirited daughter of a Norwegian military officer. Hedda is married to...

Tags: Period Film Drama Historical Film Tragedy 
Length: 161min
Like other productions of Antony and Cleopatra, this 1974 version assumes that the audience is familiar with events that took place before Mark Antony's affair in Egypt with Cleopatra. These events include the assassination of Julius Caesar and the...

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