Movie

Cheek by Jowl: Measure for Measure

★ 3/10 · 1 votes 2013 1h 50m Released

Drama

Satirical, shocking and radically stripped back, Measure for Measure from Britain’s Cheek by Jowl and Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre is a gripping, compelling production of one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays. Indulgent Duke Vincentio leaves Vienna in the hands of his puritanical deputy Angelo, to secretly observe the virtues and vices of his unruly state. When the saintly Isabella pleads with Angelo to release her brother Claudio, sentenced to death for fornication, he agrees on one condition: that Isabella sacrifice her virginity to him.

Cast

A Alexander Arsentyev The Duke Aleksandr Feklistov Lucio A Anna Vardevanian Isabella Nikolay Kislichenko Elbow Andrey Kuzichev Angelo A Anastasia Lebedeva Juliet/Francis