Macbeth (1909 French film)

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| name = Macbeth

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| director = André Calmettes

| producer = Pathé Frères

| writer = Michel Carré

| based_on = {{based on|Macbeth|William Shakespeare}}

| starring = Jeanne Delvair, Paul Mounet

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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1909|12|3}}

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| country = France

| language = Silent

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Macbeth, is a silent 1909 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play directed by André Calmettes.{{Cite book |last=Flem |first=Lydia |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Paris_Fantasme/9cQfEAAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=andr%C3%A9+calmettes+macbeth&pg=PT283&printsec=frontcover |title=Paris Fantasme |date=2021-03-04 |publisher=Seuil |isbn=978-2-02-147004-8 |language=fr}} It was released on 3 December 1909. It is a silent black-and-white film with French intertitles. The film, "with its hand- somely illustrated intertitles and a busy cast moving with great collective precision ( within a frame used as a theatrical proscenium), made its way stateside just as the Vitagraph cycle [of Shakespeare adaptations, including Macbeth (1908 film)] was on its way."{{Cite book |last=Guneratne |first=A. |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Shakespeare_Film_Studies_and_the_Visual/eeIYDAAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=andr%C3%A9+calmettes+macbeth&pg=PA141&printsec=frontcover |title=Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity |date=2016-04-30 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-61373-7 |language=en}}