Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

Let Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth and Gary Oldman take you one a medieval misadventure, getting themselves in and out of trouble to tell the “true” story (with a few hilarious distractions along the way) of one of the most famous stories of all time.

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Credits

director

Tom Stoppard

producer

Emanuel Azenberg

Michael Brandman

production company

Cinecom Entertainment

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Duration

01:54:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1990

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

308372

Language

English

Audience classification

PG

Subject categories

Adaptations

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

Literature → Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Film and video adaptations

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q1579166

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United States, 1990

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