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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
History /
Romance /
War /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Kenneth Branagh
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Actors:
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Brian Blessed,
Simon Shepherd,
Charles Kay,
James Larkin,
James Simmons,
Fabian Cartwright,
Stephen Simms,
Derek Jacobi,
Kenneth Branagh,
Alec McCowen
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Duration:
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137 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)342
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Plot Summary:
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King Henry V of England is insulted nearby the King of France. As a arise, he leads his army into campaign fight against France. Along the progressing, the na‹ve king must encounter with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of Agincourt.
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Henry V
All but a decade on, it's stony-hearted to remember the vogue that greeted this film on its original release. Almost everyone compared first-time director Kenneth Branagh with Laurence Olivier, who made his own debut behind the camera with the unvaried misbehave 45 years earlier. The knives were clearly in sight for the pretence to Olivier's throne, yet he managed to mould a version that was as much of its time as Olivier's had been. In preference to of the booming patriotism appropriate to the wartime flag-waver that was served up by Olivier, Branagh decided to centre on the savagery and futility of war. He thoroughly merited his best actor Oscar nomination: although the critics stood rigidly behind Olivier's grandiloquence, Branagh gave the more subtle and rounded pl...
Henry V
Branagh adapted and directed this opus as adequately as starring, and he's initiate jobs against all his pals. Look, there's John...
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