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Macbeth (1911)

Macbeth poster
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
14 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent film version of the Shakespeare play about a Scottish general who murders a king to take the throne.

silentblack-and-whiteshortclassicdramaticstaged

What happens

Macbeth is a 1911 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth; no prints are known to exist. Like all films of the time, it is silent and black-and-white, with English intertitles; it ran for 14 minutes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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