Chimes at Midnight
Campanadas a medianoche
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Condensing five Shakespearean plays into a single narrative, the film chronicles the tragic friendship between Prince Hal and Sir John Falstaff—the fat, vain, cowardly, but deeply loving knight who rules the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap—until Hal's coronation as King Henry V demands the brutal public rejection of his surrogate father: 'I know thee not, old man.' Orson Welles' Cannes 20th Anniversary Prize-winning masterpiece starring Welles and Keith Baxter, celebrated for its harrowing, mud-and-blood Battle of Shrewsbury montage.
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