John Gielgud
Prospero
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Prospero's Books is a complex tale based upon William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Miranda, the daughter of Prospero, an exiled magician, falls in love with Ferdinand, the son of his enemy; while the sorcerer's sprite, Ariel, convinces him to abandon revenge against the traitors from his earlier life. In the film, Prospero is Shakespeare himself ...
- £1.6 million (UK/US)
- Masato Hara, Kees Kasander, Katsufumi Nakamura, Yoshinobu Namano, Denis Wigman, Roland Wigman
- £1,500,000 or £2.4 million
- Michael Nyman
Aug 30, 1991 · A film version of The Tempest with John Gielgud as Prospero, a magician who tries to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy. The film features nudity, books, water and a blue character named Ariel.
- (6.6K)
- Drama, Fantasy
- Peter Greenaway
- 1991-08-30
Nov 27, 1991 · A film experiment in form and content, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest and featuring John Gielgud's voice. The film explores the visual and auditory aspects of the play, with nudity and transparency as its themes.
A visually stunning and audacious film version of Shakespeare's play, starring John Gielgud as the exiled duke who tells his tale in calligraphy. Critics and audiences are divided on this daring and extravagant work, with nudity, optical effects, and animated books.
- (130)
- Peter Greenaway
- R
- John Gielgud
Prospero's Books (MIRAMAX) Prospero is a magician who gets to keep only a small fragment of his enormous library when he is exiled with his daughter to an enchanted island. Soon problems arise when Prospero's daughter falls in love with the wrong man. 36 IMDb 6.8 2 h 6 min 1991. X-Ray R. Drama · Fantasy · Cerebral · Emotional.
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126 minutes. Synopsis. Prospero is a magician who gets to keep only a small fragment of his enormous library when he is exiled with his daughter to an enchanted island. As Prospero describes the books he loves, visions unfold of florid calligraphies, astonishing diagrams, and extravagant paintings.
