Henry V - Region 2 DVD
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Very few first-time film directors would have been capable of making such a triumphant adaptation of Henry V; but a still-youthful Kenneth Branagh's years of stage experience paid off handsomely and his 1989 version qualifies as a genuine masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade. He eschews the theatricality of Laurence Olivier's stirring, fondly remembered 1945 adaptation to establish his own rules: Branagh plays it down and dirty, seeing the Bard's play through revisionist eyes, framing it as an anti-war story in contrast to Olivier's patriotic spectacle. Branagh gives us harsh close-ups of muddied, bloo
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Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Release date: 17 June 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0044007817322 UPC: 044007817322
Release date: 17 June 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0044007817322 UPC: 044007817322
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