Janet Suzman
出生 : 1939-02-09, Johannesburg, South Africa
略歴
Dame Janet Suzman, DBE (born 9 February 1939) is a South African and British actress.
After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church's account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself.
Voice of Tove Jansson
The life and work of Tove Jansson, mainly known for creating the Moomins but also a writer and painter.
Herself
Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to see. Interviews with Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Yvonne Bryceland and others help to illuminate Fugard's remarkable legacy.
Dorothe Bushell (voice)
For the first time, the true story of the mastermind behind World War II's Great Escape is told by his niece, Lindy Wilson. Squadron Leader Roger Bushell was a young London barrister, an auxiliary pilot and a champion skier when he was shot down and captured early in the war. He escaped three times and, in spite of the Gestapo's threat to shoot him if he ever escaped again, Bushell accepted the role of 'Big X' on his return to the top-security PoW camp, Stalag Luft 111. After 18 months of preparation, one of the greatest escapes of the war took place. Their aim to distract the enemy succeeded, as it was estimated that five million Germans were deployed to recapture the 76 escapees. However, Hitler's rage was uncontainable and he personally ordered a terrible reckoning. (Storyville)
Major film and television stars re-enact famous scenes from the plays of William Shakespeare .
Max's Mother
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
Judith Geller
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
Margaret, Duchess of Chester
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.
Sister Superior
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a Nuns' teacher training school.
Theroign de Mericourt
Four monologues by playwright Peter Barnes celebrating the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
Director
After 400 years Shakespeare's great tragedy still has strong social and political relevance, and this celebrated production by leading actress and director Janet Suzman was momentous, as it was staged at South Africa's famous Market Theatre during the apartheid era. Tony Award-winning actor John Kani plays the title role.
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
Susan du Toit
黒人庭師の息子が警察で謎の死を遂げたことをきっかけに、白人教師が政府や警察の腐敗した現状に立ち向かう。南アフリカ共和国で起こった殺人事件を描き、アパルトヘイトの現状を鋭く描き出してみせた衝撃サスペンス。
Eleanor of Aquitaine
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course.
Edmea Tutua
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.
Virginia Herbert
82年発表のグリーナウェイ長編劇映画第1作。名誉革命後、1694年の夏、英国南部のウィルトシャー。才能豊かだが傲慢さでも評判の画家ネヴィルが、コンプトン・アンスティのハーバート家の夜宴に招かれる。そこでハーバート夫人はネヴィルを別室に招じ入れ、ノイズ氏を立会人にして、夫が旅行から戻るまでに屋敷の画を12点描いてくれるように依頼し、契約を結ぶ。どこを描くかは自分が決めるという夫人。彼女は、1点につき8ポンドという高額の報酬を約束し、そして彼が望むがままに密会に応じることを約束するが……。
Frieda Lawrence
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
Emilia Marcus
The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.
Hedda
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
Leni Strauss
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Cleopatra
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Alex Tarrant
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.
Herself
Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.
Hedda Gabler
Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen.
Sheila
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
Alexandra
ロマノフ家滅亡の悲劇を描いた名作。怪僧“ラスプーチン”によってしだいに滅亡へと向かうロシア皇帝とその皇后の物語で、主演マイケル・ジェイストンらの熱演が光る。第44回アカデミー賞2部門受賞。
Masha
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
Joan la Pucelle
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.