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Tempest is an Academy Award winning film produced in 1928 and directed by Sam Taylor.
V.I. Nemirovich-Dantchenko wrote the screenplay and William Cameron Menzies won an Academy Award (Best Art Direction) for his work in the film in 1929 (the first year of the awards ceremony). John Barrymore and Camilla Horn star in the film, with Louis Wolheim co-starring.
The Tempest is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is generally dated to 1610-11 and accepted to be the last play solely written by him, although some scholars have argued for an earlier dating. While listed as a comedy in its initial publication in the First Folio of 1623, many modern editors have relabelled the play a romance. It did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642, and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions. Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, the play received a sweeping re-appraisal by critics and scholars, to the point that it is now considered one of Shakespeare's greatest works.
Tempest (1982) is an American comedy-drama film directed by Paul Mazursky. It's a very loose adaptation of the William Shakespeare play, The Tempest.
The picture stars John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, and Molly Ringwald in her debut feature film.
The Tempest is a 1979 fantasy/extravaganza film adaptation of William Shakespeare's eponymous play. Directed by Derek Jarman, with Heathcote Williams as Prospero, it stars Toyah Willcox and Jack Birkett from his previous feature, Jubilee (1977), as well as his longtime cohort Karl Johnson.
Alec Guinness was offered the role of Prospero, but withdrew after the producers balked at his concept of basing his characterization on the aging Leo Tolstoy.
John Gielgud was cast as Prospero but backed out after disagreements over the production concept.
Philip Dimitrius's marriage is on the rocks; he searches for a more meaningful experience returning to his roots in Greece. While his wife is off gallivanting with a Greek tycoon, Philip falls for the footloose Aretha. Written by Rob Goldsmith
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned. Written by John Oswalt
Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel from a spell, and also meets the savage Caliban. Then Prospero uses his powers to create a tempest that shipwrecks some of the persons who caused his exile. Written by Snow Leopard
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance. Written by






