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Director:
Elijah Moshinsky
Writer:
William Shakespeare (play)
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Release Date:
13 December 1981 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy more
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Cast

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA) (video title)
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Runtime:
USA:112 min (DVD)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Trivia:
The second televised production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Helen Mirren in the cast, although this time in a different role (Titania). In the 1968 production, which was released to movie theatres in Europe, but premiered in the U.S. on CBS-TV, Ms. Mirren played Hermia. more

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5 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
See this version!, 5 February 2005
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Author: d2mgh0 from United States

I stumbled upon this production as a teen on PBS one night and have never forgotten it. I'm not particularly a Shakespeare buff but this production gave me a serious soft spot for "Dream" and I've seen several productions of it. This one puts the rest to shame. This is perhaps the most palatable of the Bard's works and the staging and direction make it even more embraceable but do not dumb it down. A taste of this and you may well find yourself going out of your way to rent "Hamlet", "Othello" (or Lord help you) "Titus" (no, can't honestly recommend that one although Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange and Alan Cumming all performed wonderfully).

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