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Antony & Cleopatra (2020x7)

Date de diffusion: Mai 07, 2020

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war. Politics and passion are violently intertwined in Shakespeare’s gripping tale of power. Simon Godwin directs Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as the famous fated couple. Filmed live at the National Theatre's Olivier Theatre in 2018.