A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men. 1971 is a year director Roman Polanski will never forget. Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride. Where to Watch Full Cast & Crew News Buy DVD. (This Macbeth was a Playboy production. ) One thing is to write a play and a very different one is to make a film out of it. It is dark and brooding. Students who didn’t quite fit that description appreciated the fact that beautiful Francesca played the mad scene in the nude. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king's son conspires to attack Macbeth and expose him for the murderer he is. As: Cast, Director, Writer. Polanski's adaptation of Macbeth is most likely the closest to The Bard's original intention of the play. It is hard not to imagine that this intense personal tragedy did not influence Polanski's craft. Polanski brought great creativity to his interpretation and staging. As a film, Polanski’s Macbeth is an accomplished adaptation; remaining true to the source material while still retaining the authorial stamp of its director. List of Roman Polanski movies includes top-grossing films like ‘Rosemary's Baby’, ‘The Pianist’ and ‘Chinatown’ as also box-office failures like ‘Macbeth’ (1971) and ‘Pirates’ (1986). Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. The Shakespeare we inherit from this film may not be the one we want, but he is certainly a playwright of Elizabethan England (which the "high-school" Shakespeare never was).That makes this film really important - at least until the definitive version actually gets made (and it hasn't, yet...). Please try again. After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife. The minor character Ross has been made a secret villain: it is he who is the mysterious “third murderer” who kills Banquo (most productions ignore the anomaly’s for the extra killer) and masterminds the slaughter of MacDuff’s family. Avneet Saini Mrs. Fera ENG3U0-D November 2nd, 2012 The Contrast between Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Roman Polanski’s Macbeth Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is a tragedy that plots the fall and death of once a great man, revealing how ambition can lead to downfall. Looking to watch 'Macbeth' in the comfort of your own home? You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Polanski's adaptation of Macbeth is most likely the closest to The Bard's original intention of the play. 1971 is also the year in which the infamous murderer and cult leader Charles Manson got a life sentence in a California prison for the grisly murders of Polanski's pregnant wife Sharon Tate and several family friends in 1969. ... Full Cast & Crew. William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Two-Disc Special Edition), Macbeth / McKellen, Dench (Thames Shakespeare Collection). In one fell swoop?" Roman Polanski presents his nightmarish vision of Shakespeare's classic tragedy about the lust for power-and its bloody consequences. I used to show it to my seniors during the years I taught Macbeth. Any student of Shakespeare, Roman Polanski follower, or film buff in general should take time out to view this film. This is the medieval world of Macbeth, Macduff, Duncan, Malcolm, Banquo, the three witches, and Lady Macbeth. 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