A Midsummer Night's Play

A Midsummer Night's Play

98 mins | Jan. 1, 1979

Leth's television production of Sanct Hansaften-Spil by the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenshläger is an attempt to take the poetic play at face value and bring it to life in a series of tableaux with settings by Per Kirkeby and acted by a large number of celebrated actors and actresses. In other words, just as in the theatre, the attempt means making the words burst out of the narrow framework of the stage or tableau.

A Midsummer Night's Play

98 mins | Jan. 1, 1979

A Midsummer Night's Play
Leth's television production of Sanct Hansaften-Spil by the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenshläger is an attempt to take the poetic play at face value and bring it to life in a series of tableaux with settings by Per Kirkeby and acted by a large number of celebrated actors and actresses. In other words, just as in the theatre, the attempt means making the words burst out of the narrow framework of the stage or tableau.
Producers
Original title Sanct Hansaften-spil
Directors Jørgen Leth
Writers Adam Oehlenschläger

Cast