National Theatre Live: Man and Superman (2015)
Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic. Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary. Tanner, appalled by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues. Following in hot pursuit, Ann is there when Tanner awakes, as fierce in her certainty as he is in his. A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.
- Released
- 2015-05-14
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 220 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Robin Lough
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 from 6 votes
Cast
- Nicholas Le Prevost as Roebuck Ramsden
- Ferdinand Kingsley as Octavius Robinson
- Ralph Fiennes as Jack Tanner/Don Juan
- Indira Varma as Ann Whitefield/Ana
- Christine Kavanagh as Mrs Whitefield
- Clare Clifford as Miss Ramsden
- Faye Castelow as Violet
- Elliot Barnes-Worrell as Straker
- Naomi Cranston as Housekeeper/The Sulky Social Democrat
- Nick Hendrix as Hector Malone
- Corey Johnson as Malone
- Tim McMullan as Mendoza/The Devil
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