Henry V
(1944)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 135 votes
Year: 1944
Runtime: 137 мин
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Лоренс Оливье
Cast: Лоренс Оливье, Рене Эшерсон, Ralph Truman, Ernest Thesiger, Frederick Cooper, Robert Helpmann, Leslie Banks, Felix Aylmer, Роберт Ньютон, Freda Jackson
Plot
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader, he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French, against enormous odds, at Agincourt. Arranging a treaty with the French court, he woos Princess Katharine to whom he is formally betrothed as part of the peace agreement.