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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:
absolute trite moreCast
(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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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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This movie sucked. I was studying "the tempest' at school recently, and this being the most faithful adaption my teacher could find, we watched it.
Prospero looked more like an incarnation of Doctor Who, Miranda was some kind of seventies punk-brat (no change there, then, for toyah wilcox) and derek jarman clearly held the misguided notion that showing the fullfrontal scene of ferdinand clambering ashore in the buff would be enough to save this crap from descending into seat squirmingly, buttock clenchingly arduous cinema.
however, unsurprisingly, scenes added more for the titillation of the director than for the enrichment of the production will not (shock horror) help this utter trite.