The Dresser1983
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
Director
Screenplay
Ronald Harwood
Actors
Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough, John Sharp, Kathy Staff
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 118 Minutes
Genres
About the film
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
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Ratings
6.8tmdb
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