SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

Love for Love

Synopsis

Russian version of Much Ado About Nothing incorporating ballet and dance. Courtney Lehmann (op cit) writes: ‘This film is a curious hybrid that includes classical ballet interludes, a narrator figure who is a famous Russian opera singer and low, vaguely ‘Romany’ cultural performances sprinkled into the Don John sub plot’. The Ballet of the Moscow Musical Academy Theatre is conducted by A. Kopytov.

Language

Russian

Country

Former USSR

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1983

Duration

84 mins

Availability

No archive copy found (2007)

Credits

Director

Tatyana Berezantseva

Screenplay

Tatyana Berezantseva; Yelena Lobachevskaya

Cast

Larisa Udovichenko	Beatrice
Leonid Yarmolnik	Benedick
Algis Arlauskas	Claudio
Sergei Martynov	Don Pedro
Alla Pugacheva
Anna Isaikini	Hero
Georgi Georgiu	Leonato
Yevgeni Nesterenko

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Much Ado About Nothing

Subjects

Dance; Drama; Music

Keywords

ballet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Reviews

Lehmann, Courtney ‘Film Adaptations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. p. 112, entry 444.

Production Company

Name

Mosfilm