Characters & Themes
Cymbeline (1983) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1983 · 175 mins · English
- Directed by
- Elijah Moshinsky
- Starring
- Helen Mirren, Claire Bloom, Michael Hordern, Marius Goring, Paul Jesson, Richard Johnson
Cymbeline, king of Britain, is furious that his daughter Imogen has chosen the modest yet worthy Posthumus as her husband, so he banishes him; Posthumus then goes off to fight for Rome. Disguised as a boy, Imogen sets out to search for him, while Posthumus boasts to his friend Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. Iachimo is determined to prove him wrong.
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