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Status
Released
Release
1996
Runtime
1h 52m
Available options inUS
"A four hundred year old work-in-progress."
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
63 Cast Members
Al Pacino
Self / Richard III
Winona Ryder
Self / Lady Anne
Kevin Spacey
Self / Earl of Buckingham
Alec Baldwin
Self / Duke of Clarence
Aidan Quinn
Richmond
Harris Yulin
Self / King Edward
Penelope Allen
Self / Queen Elizabeth
Kenneth Branagh
Self - Interviewee
Kevin Kline
Self - Interviewee
James Earl Jones
Self - Interviewee
Rosemary Harris
Self - Interviewee
Peter Brook
Self - Interviewee
Derek Jacobi
Self - Interviewee
John Gielgud
Self - Interviewee
Vanessa Redgrave
Self - Interviewee
F. Murray Abraham
Self
Neal Jones
Messenger
Gordon MacDonald
Dorset
Madison Arnold
Rivers
Vincent Angell
Grey
