Lady Macbeth
Synopsis
Rural England, 1865. Katherine (Florence Pugh) is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family is cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband’s estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
A unique period drama adapted from Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 Russian novella 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - Spotlight programme
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 89 mins
- Format
- Arri Alexa
- Director
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William Oldroyd 1st Feature
- Producer
- Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
- Executive Producer
- Christopher Moll, Steve Jenkins, Lizzie Francke, Jim Reeve, Christopher Granier-Deferre
- Editor
- Nick Emerson
- Screenwriter
- Alice Birch (script), Nikolai Leskov (novella)
- Director of Photography
- Ari Wegner
- Production Designer
- Jacqueline Abrahams
- Sound
- Ben Baird, Dan Jones
- Principal cast
- Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, Christopher Fairbank
- Costume Designer
- Holly Waddington
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Produced by Sixty Six Pictures with development support from Creative England, BFI and BBC Films through iFeatures
Sixty Six Pictures
Ground Floor23 Hartswood Road
London
W12 9NE
Sales Company
Protagonist Pictures
42-48 Great Portland StreetLondon
W1W 7NB
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