Tempests - Essay on a Rehearsal

Overview

A documentary essay about a text that penetrates lives and lives that penetrate a text. In September 2015 teatro GRIOT - a theatre company based in Lisbon, whose actors are mostly Afro-descendants - started to rehearse Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"" with acclaimed director Bruno Bravo in a little coastal village. Starting with the first rehearsals the film explores Shakespeare's text and the actors' biographies, between the play and the landscape and brings up topics such as memories, home, emigration and colonialism. A complex mosaic of multiple voices.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 11, 2015

Original language

Portuguese

Spoken languages

Portuguese

Countries

Germany, Portugal

Cast

Daniel Martinho,Giovanni Lourenço,Margarida Bento,Zia Soares,Bruno Bravo,Ana Rosa Mendes

Director

Uli Decker

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt6081970