starring Orson Welles , Keith Baxter John Gielgud , Margaret Rutherford and Jeanne Moreau
Based on five of Shakespeare's plays, this is, in Welles' words, ' a sombre comedy' and a ' lament for Merrie England'. Orson Welles , heading a distinguished cast, gives a characteristically brilliant performance as Falstaff, the embodiment of the richly human, honest and heroic qualities of medieval England whose openness and loyalty eventually become the very cause of his own destruction.
Screenplay by ORSON WELLES . adapted from the plays Richard 11, Henry IV Parts I and 11, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor by william Shakespeare Produced by EMILIANO piedra and ANGEL ESCOLANO
Directed by ORSON WELLES
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