Английская Википедия:A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968 film)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1968 British film of William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall.
Production
It stars Derek Godfrey as Theseus, Barbara Jefford as Hippolyta, Diana Rigg as Helena, Helen Mirren as Hermia, David Warner as Lysander, Ian Holm as Puck, Ian Richardson as King Oberon, Judi Dench as Queen Titania, and Paul Rogers as Bottom, as well as other members of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The film premiered in theatres in Europe in September 1968.Шаблон:Sfn In the U.S., it was sold directly to television rather than playing in theatres, and premiered as a Sunday evening special, on the night of 9 February 1969. It was shown on CBS (with commercials).Шаблон:Sfn
The film was only the second, after Max Reinhardt's 1935 film, sound film adaptation of the play.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn It portrayed the fairies as "wild, near-naked creatures in a primitive, sinister wood."Шаблон:Sfn and "the subsidiary fairies were bedraggled child actors; the artisans authentic, almost contemporary rustics."Шаблон:Sfn that "contrasted with the sedate courtly milieu of an actual Warwickshire country house."Шаблон:Sfn Sukanta Chaudhuri—editor of The Arden Shakespeare, third series edition of the play—describes it as "a notable blending of the traditional with the innovative."Шаблон:Sfn Peter Holland, editor of The Oxford Shakespeare edition described it as "[turning] the sentimentality into something rougher and muddier; his fairies, accompanying Titania (Judi Dench), naked with her modesty covered by a long wig, were dirty urchins covered in mud."Шаблон:Sfn
The "Athens" scenes were shot at Compton Verney House.Шаблон:Sfn
Cast
Reception
The film was generally poorly received by critics.Шаблон:Sfn Penelope Houston, reviewing the film for The Spectator, wrote:Шаблон:Sfn
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