Love's Labour's Lost DVD 2000 Lóvátett Lovagok / Directed by Kenneth Branagh / Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Nathan Lane, Adrian Lester, Matthew Lillard, Natascha McElhone

UPC 5999545560153

REGION 2 PAL DVD  

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: ENGLISH 2.0 HUNGARIAN 2.0

SUBTITLES: HUNGARIAN

RUNTIME: 100+60 MINUTES

English Summary:

The King of Navarre has vowed to avoid romantic entanglements to spend three years in study and contemplation. His chief courtiers agree to follow him in this vow, though one (Berowne) argues that they will not be able to fulfill this plan.

Berowne's claim is proven correct almost instantly. The Princess of France comes to Navarre to discuss the status of the province of Aquitaine. Though the King does not grant them access to his palace (they are forced to camp outside), each of the courtiers falls in love with one of her handmaidens, and the King falls in love with the Princess herself.

The men attempt to hide their own loves and expose those of their fellows. After a masked ball in which the pairs of lovers are comically mismatched, all the amours are revealed. Costard leads a musical number with the King's court, which eventually includes the entire cast. But as the song closes, a messenger arrives with news of the King of France's death. As the year of mourning that will proceed for the princess and her ladies means further courtship is impossible, and the women had until this point treated the men's courtship as nothing but a mocking merriment to entertain their guests, they request demonstrations of humility and constancy from the men, with a promise to marry them at the end of the 12 months if they carry out these acts.

Newsreel footage shows the character's lives over the course of that year, which takes place in the context of World War II. The montage ends with all those who survived the war (Boyett we specifically see die in some covert military action) reuniting in celebration on what appears to be VE Day.

Hungarian Summary:

A navarrai király és három cimborája fogadást köt: három évig csak tanulmányaiknak szentelik magukat, és nem néznek a fehérnép felé. Becsületük a francia királylány és három dámája megérkeztével rögvest próbára tétetik. Mind a négyen azonnal szerelemre gyúlnak, de ezt senki sem meri bevallani a másiknak.

Cast / Szereplők:

Some of the characters in the film adaptation are not in the original script. Gaston, Isabelle, Eugene, Jaques, Beatrice, Hyppolyte, Celimene, and Sophie are not mentioned in the play, and they have no lines in the film. This, however, is a standard feature of Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations; his Hamlet contains many non-speaking walk-on roles that are not included in the original play, but are mentioned in the cast list.