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19:30 | Theatre HD. Hamlet: Cumberbatch |
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Theatre production. UK 2015, 200 min. Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch. In English with Russian subtitles. Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role in Shakespeare's great tragedy. Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, the Barbican presents an exclusive twelve-week run of this compelling new production in summer 2015. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state. Awards and festivals: Laurence Olivier Award Nomination - Best Actor, Best Revival, Best Sound Design, Best Set Design.
Karo 10 Schuka  |
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19:30 | Theatre HD: Antony & Cleopatra |
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Theatre production. UK 2018, 220 min (with interval). Directed by Simon Godwin. Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Tim McMullan, Nicholas Le Prevost. In English with Russian subtitles. Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.
Documentary Film Center |
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20:15 | Theatre HD: Julius Ceasar |
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Theatre production. UK 2018, 138 min. The Bridge Theatre production. Directed by Nicolas Hytner. Starring: David Calder, David Morissey, Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley. A play by William Shakespeare. In English with Russian subtitles. Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) plays Caesar and David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.
GUM Cinema |
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