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/ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL/ (1981)

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Dvd Region: 2+4 Pal (UK & Europe)
Certificate: U
Running Time: Approx. 144 minutes
Type: Fullscreen
Originally Transmitted: 4th January 1981
Dvd Release Date: 2005
Released By: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Distributed By: DD Home Entertainment
Format: Colour Dvd Pal
Language: English
Subtitles: English sdh
Audio: Mono
Format: 4:3
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A COMEDIE
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare’s plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors.

"Our remedies oft on ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven. The fated sky
Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.”
When Helena administers a cure to the gravely ill King of France, he offers her a choice of husband. Helena chooses Bertram, the Count of Rousillon. He insists that he will never be her ‘true’ husband unless she wears his family ring and becomes pregnant with his child. Following him to Florence, Helena embarks upon a plan that will lead her to claim her rightful spouse . . .
All’s Well That Ends Well won both BAFTA and RTS Awards and was considered one of the best of the BBC Shakespeare series. Director Elijah Moshinsky was said to have magnificently framed the scenes and highlighted the domestic nature of the play. The cast, particularly Celia Johnson as the Countess and Ian Charleson as an angry, sullen Bertram, also received great acclaim.

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"O were that all! I think not on my father,
And these great tears grace his remembrance more
Than those I shed for him. What was he like?”
Ian Charleson Angela Down
Celia Johnson
Michael Hordern Donald Sinden
Pippa Guard and Peter Jeffrey
Directed by Elijah Moshinsky
Produced by Jonathan Miller
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
In credits order
Celia Johnson ... Countess of Rousillon
Ian Charleson ... Bertram
Michael Hordern ... Lafeu
Angela Down ... Helena
Peter Jeffrey ... Parolles
Kevin Stoney ... Countess's Stewart
Donald Sinden ... King of France
Robert Lindsay ... First French Lord
Dominic Jephcott ... Second French Lord
Paul Brooke ... Lavache
James Simmons ... Bachelor
John Segal ... Bachelor
Peter Sands ... Bachelor
Yves Aubert ... Bachelor
Terence McGinity ... First Gentleman
Max Arthur ... Second Gentleman
Rosemary Leach ... Widow of Florence
Pippa Guard ... Diana
Joolia Cappleman ... Mariana
Nickolas Grace ... The Soldier
Valentine Dyall ... The Astringer

Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Produced: Jonathan Miller
Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play
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William Shakespeare
Hys Most Excellent and
Comedie
All’s well
THAT ENDS WELL

ABOUT ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
All’s Well That Ends Well, first printed in the 1623 Folio, is often paired with Measure for Measure. Like that play it places it central characters into painful situations quite unlike those usually suffered by the heroes and heroines of his earlier Romantic Comedies . . .
Shakespeare based the story of Bertram and Helen on a tale from Boccaccio’s Decameron but with the invention of several important characters that lend the whole a realism, a mirror on life, as only the Bard seemed able to achieve.

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