Prospero's Books

IMDb link: 0102722
IMDb rating: 6.8 (7,059 votes)
Genres: Drama, Fantasy
Director: John Gielgud, Peter Greenaway, Michel Blanc
Cast: Erland Josephson, Michael Clark and others

Release date: 30 Aug 1991
Release year: 1991
Runtime: 124 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Keywords: shakespeare adaptation, book, nudity, experimental film, shakespeare's the tempest, based on play, character name in title, boy frontal nudity, magical realism, magic

Plot:

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

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