In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat’s last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.Read More »
Peter Brook
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Peter Brook – Marat/Sade (1967)
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Peter Brook – The Mahabharata (1989)
1981-1990BelgiumEpicPeter BrookTVSynopsis:
In ancient India the five Pandava brothers, Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, are cousins of the sons of king Dhritharashtra, known as the Kaurava. The five are the sons of the wives of king Pandu, who seceded in favor of his blind brother after he was cursed. The men are raised together, but from the beginning there are difficulties. They are prone to fight and when Arjuna becomes a great archer, the Kaurava are both jealous and afraid. Is it the kingdom the Pandava are after? Yudhishthira, the eldest of the Pandava, strives after it as he is told by the deity Krishna that he will become king. The hatred and jealousy of the Kaurava grows even stronger when the Pandava turn a barren wasteland Dhritharashtra gave them into a great court. This can’t go on forever. Inevitably a war will follow, a war that will shake the foundations of the Earth.Read More » -
Peter Brook – Moderato cantabile AKA Seven Days… Seven Nights (1960) (HD)
1951-1960ArthouseDramaFrancePeter BrookA wealthy and bored woman is witness of a murder in affection and meets another witness. She asks him about the history of the victim and falls in love with him.Read More »
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Peter Brook – Tell Me Lies: A Film About London (1968)
1961-1970ArthousePeter BrookUnited Kingdom“Based on Denis Cannan’s 1966 protest play on the Vietnam war ‘US’ which Brook directed for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the film adaptation is a fascinating insight into how Vietnam was lived in London at that time.
As a young couple search for the truth about the conflict , we are shown a mixture of opinion from a number of artistic and intellectual communities together with sequences about Vietnam revealing the complex and often comic contradictions between belief and reality. With songs by Adrian Mitchell, the cast includes Kingsley Amis, Glenda Jackson, Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft.” – The BarbicanRead More » -
Peter Brook, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson – Red White And Zero (1967)
1961-1970ComedyDramaLindsay AndersonPeter BrookTony RichardsonUnited KingdomA film in three parts
Part One – The Ride of The ValkyrieAn opera singer must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theater in time for his performance.Read More »