Antony And Cleopatra (BBC 1981, Colin Blakely, Jane Lapotaire)

Period drama. Antony’s love for Cleopatra threatens to tear apart two great empires.

UK | BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) | 1×120 minutes | 1981

Writer: William Shakespeare | Music: Stephen Liver | Producer and Director: Jonathan Miller

cast
COLIN BLAKELY as Antony | JANE LAPOTAIRE as Cleopatra | JOHN PAUL as Canidius | JONATHAN ADAMS as Ventidus | IAN CHARLESON as Octavius Caesar | EMRYS JAMES as Enobarbus | JANET KEY as Charmian | HOWARD GOORNEY as Soothsayer | LYNN FARLEIGH as Octavia | ESMOND KNIGHT as Lepidus | DARIAN AGNADI | CASSIE McFARLANE | MICHAEL ANTHONY | MOHAMMAD SHAMSI | HARRY WATES

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