English Drama Theater in Moscow

Meeting at the airport of the artists of the English Drama Theater, who arrived in Moscow on tour. Acquaintance with the sights of Moscow: inspection of the Kremlin, the Armory, Red Square, the Moscow metro; visiting the Lenin Mausoleum, Sergei Prokofiev's ballet "Romeo and Juliet" at the Bolshoi Theater, the performance of the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky "The Fruits of Enlightenment". Scenes from the play Hamlet by V. Shakespeare performed by artists from the English Drama Theater at the Gorky Moscow Art Theater. The role of Hamlet is played by the actor Paul Scofield, the role of Ophelia is played by Mary Ure. Meeting of British actors P. Scofield and M. Yur with Soviet actors E. Samoilov and G. Anisimova in the Moscow television studio. P. Scofield and G. Anisimova perform the scene of the meeting of Ophelia and Hamlet. Meeting of the director of the English Theater P. Brook with the directors and actors of the Moscow Mayakovsky Theater, who are in Baku on tour with the play "Hamlet". Reception at the USSR Ministry of Culture in honor of British artists. S. V. Kaftanov welcomes guests. Seeing the artists of the English Theater at the airport. P. Scofield is speaking.

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sound technicians D. Ovsyannikov, E. Umansky