Macbeth (1909)

Directed by

André Calmettes

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

17 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent black-and-white film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Macbeth. It tells the story of a Scottish general driven by ambition and prophecy to murder for power.

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What happens

Macbeth, is a silent 1909 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play directed by André Calmettes. It was released on 3 December 1909. It is a silent black-and-white film with French intertitles. The film, "with its hand- somely illustrated intertitles and a busy cast moving with great collective precision ( within a frame used as a theatrical proscenium), made its way stateside just as the Vitagraph cycle [of Shakespeare adaptations, including Macbeth (1908 film)] was on its way." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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