Release Date

13 Sep, 1979

Runtime

01:35: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

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.

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Actors

Heathcote Williams

Toyah Willcox

Karl Johnson

Jack Birkett

Peter Bull

David Meyer

Neil Cunningham

Richard Warwick

Christopher Biggins

Peter Turner

Ken Campbell

Elisabeth Welch

Claire Davenport

Kate Temple

Helen Wellington-Lloyd

Angela Whittingham

Crew

Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman

William Shakespeare

Stephen Pruslin

Brian Hodgson

John Lewis

Guy Ford

Sarah Vickers

Yolanda Sonnabend

Ian Whittaker

Keith of 'Smile'

Lesley Walker

Rosalind McCorquodale

Mordecai Shreiber