Movie: Prosperos Books (1991)

• Director: Peter Greenaway
• Release Date: 30 August 1991 (UK)
• Writers: William Shakespeare (play) Peter Greenaway (writer)
• Run Time: 124 min | 129 min
• Country: Netherlands , France , UK , Italy , Japan
• Genre: Fantasy , Drama  
• MPAA: Rated R for pervasive nudity.

Tagline: A magician's spell, the innocence of young love and a dream of revenge unite to create a tempest.

Trivia: Prospero’s ‘poor cell’ is based on a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina called ‘St. Jerome in His Study’ (1460-1475).
 

“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’. Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>”

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