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25 December 1980 (West Germany) morePlot:
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Queer Theory in Practice more (15 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Bull | ... | Alonso, the King of Naples |
| David Meyer | ... | Ferdinand, his son |
| Neil Cunningham | ... | Sebastian, his brother |
| Heathcote Williams | ... | Prospero, the Right Duke of Milan |
 | Toyah Willcox | ... | Miranda, his daughter |
| Richard Warwick | ... | Antonio, his brother |
| Karl Johnson | ... | Ariel, an airy spirit |
| Jack Birkett | ... | Caliban, a savage and deformed slave |
| Christopher Biggins | ... | Stephano, a drunken mariner |
| Peter Turner | ... | Trinculo, his friend |
| Ken Campbell | ... | Gonzalo, an honest councillor |
| Elisabeth Welch | ... | A Goddess |
| Claire Davenport | ... | Sycorax |
| Kate Temple | ... | Young Miranda |
| Helen Wellington-Lloyd | ... | A Spirit |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Evelyn Jarman. moreQuotes:
Miranda, his daughter: Oh, how beauteous mankind is. O brave new world that has such people in it! moreSoundtrack:
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I'm amazed that of all the reviews I've looked at nobody seems to have noticed one of the main points of this film, or at least how I saw it. It seems like one big homosexual fantasy, camp clothing, a glorified nude Ferdinand, a definite sexual tension between Ariel and Prospero, and as a final climax, a group of men in tight sailor suits dancing the hornpipe. This whole approach, once you get used to it, provides you with all sorts of fantastic scenes and images. The sight of an innocent Ariel being pulled towards a disgusting nude Sycorax in order to perform "her earthy and abhorr'd commands", is one of the darkest I've ever scene in a Shakespeare film. However by the end of the film I'd grown tired of the style and the final hornpipe dance was just too much to take. Still overall its an interesting interpretation of the play.