Genre: Drama | History | Thriller
IMDB rating: 7.6/10
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Xavier Samuel
Size: 1 GB
Plot: After a monologue delivered by Derek Jacobi, the film opens with Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, ordering a desperate search for a trove of manuscripts. Ben Jonson, who has the manuscripts,
hides them in the Rose theatre, but it is burned down while being
searched. Successive flashbacks cast us back five and then forty years,
as the film evokes the reputed life of Edward de Vere from childhood
through to his entanglement in an insurrection, and later on to his
death. The main action takes place towards the end of the Elizabethan
era as political intrigue flourishes between the Tudors and the Cecils
(father William and son Robert), over the succession to Queen Elizabeth I.
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