Antony and Cleopatra (1974)

Directed by

Jon Scoffield

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2h 41m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A television adaptation of Shakespeare's play about the Roman general Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Their passionate love affair leads to political turmoil and personal tragedy.

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What happens

Antony and Cleopatra is a 1974 videotaped television production of William Shakespeare's 1606 play of the same name, produced by ATV (which was distributed internationally by ITC) starring Richard Johnson as Mark Antony, Janet Suzman as Cleopatra, and Patrick Stewart as Enobarbus. It was directed by Jon Scoffield and is an adaptation of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of the play. It features then-little-known Ben Kingsley and Tim Pigott-Smith in small roles. As of 2014, this production was the last made-for-TV Shakespeare adaptation to have its American network premiere on U.S. commercial television. Laurence Olivier's King Lear was shown in the U.S. in 1984 in syndication rather than on a single network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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