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Macbeth (also known as The Tragedy of Macbeth or Roman Polanski's Film of Macbeth) is a 1971 historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski, and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan. A film adaptation of William Shakespeare 's tragedy of the same name , it tells the story of the Highland lord who becomes King of Scotland through treachery ...
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Macbeth (1971) Polanski adapted Macbeth into a screenplay...
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Macbeth was a movie directed in 1971 by Polish-French movie...
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Dec 25, 1971 · Macbeth: Directed by Roman Polanski. With Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler. A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
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Macbeth is a 1971 historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski, and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan. A film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, it tells the story of the Highland lord who becomes King of Scotland through treachery and murder.
But who has taken it more seriously than Roman Polanski, who tells his bloody masterpiece at precisely the level of the idiot's tale? We have all heard it a hundred times, Macbeth's despairing complaint about life: " ... it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Credits. Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity.
