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WAS SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH?

By Alicia MAKSIMOVA

Documentary - Completed 2016

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ITALIAN, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 97 mn
- Director(s)
- Alicia MAKSIMOVA
- Synopsis
- "Was Shakespeare English?" offers a fresh, daring and controversial view of the great playwright's identity. Russian-born, London-based director Alicia Maksimova, in her first feature, takes us on an enthralling voyage from the Strait of Messina to Venice, Verona, Stratford-upon-Avon, and back to Sicily for a mesmeric finale on the little Aeolian island which inspired The Tempest.
  Enticing travelogue beautifully shot and provocatively argued, this bold docu-journey offers a Shakespeare who is both a hot potato for our times and a supreme artist for the ages.
  97 minutes, in English and Italian, 2016