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Vanessa Redgrave | Queen Elizabeth I | |
Rhys Ifans | Edward de Vere | |
Jamie Campbell Bower | Young Oxford | |
David Thewlis | William Cecil | |
Joely Richardson | Princess Elizabeth Tudor | |
Derek Jacobi | Prologue | |
Xavier Samuel | Southhampton | |
Rafe Spall | William Shakespeare | |
Henry Lloyd-Hughes | Bear Baiter | |
Mark Rylance | Gloucester | |
Edward Hogg | Robert Cecil | |
Sebastian Armesto | Ben Jonson | |
Tom Wlaschiha | Captain of the Guard | |
Tony Way | Thomas Nashe | |
Julian Bleach | Sir Richard Pole | |
Sam Reid | Earl of Essex | |
Paolo De Vita | Francesco | |
Trystan Gravelle | Christopher Marlowe | |
Robert Emms | Thomas Dekker |
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Producer | Roland Emmerich
Volker Engel |
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Writer | John Orloff
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Cinematography | Anna Foerster
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Musician | Harald Kloser
Thomas Wanker |
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A political thriller advancing the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays; set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her. |
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