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Winner of 3 Emmy Awards these exceptional animated stories have been designed to introduce children and young adults to some Shakespeare's most popular works. Each play has been animated in its own unique style by the exceptional talents of the leading directors of Russia's Christmas Films. Actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company and stars of stage and screen, including Antony Sher, Joss Ackland and Jenny Agutter, provide voices for the characters which were recorded and produced by BBC Wales. In Russia, art and animation has long been used as a veiled form of satire, education and political protest. This has inspired scores of Russian animators to develop fascinating and highly individual techniques, a prolific kaleidoscope of styles from which the animation artists were chosen for these stories of Shakespeare-The Animated Tales. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Pete Postlethwaite](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267582_309ce4.jpg)
Pete Postlethwaite
UK
Best series:
Criminal Justice (2008) (series)
Lovejoy (1986) (series)
Casualty (1986) (series)
![Susan Fleetwood](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/036/677/36677395_3653d8.jpg)
![Anton Lesser](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/218/162218512_e609c4.jpg)
Anton Lesser
UK
Best series:
Game of Thrones (2011) (series)
The Crown (2016) (series)
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Hilton McRae
UK
![Timothy West](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/191/160191182_b356ad.jpg)
Timothy West
UK
Best series:
Last Tango in Halifax (2012) (series)
Inside No. 9 (2014) (series)
Not Going Out (2006) (series)
Greg Hicks
UK
Best series:
The Bible (2013) (series)
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (series)
Waking the Dead (2000) (series)
Suzanne Burden
Best series:
Microsoap (1998) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
C.B. Strike (2017) (series)
![Sorcha Cusack](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/280/164280138_1ac0a8.jpg)
Sorcha Cusack
Ireland
Best series:
Jane Eyre (1973) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
River (2015) (series)
![Colin McFarlane](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/360/159360078_f09b31.jpg)
Colin McFarlane
UK
Best series:
Black Books (2000) (series)
Jeeves and Wooster (1990) (series)
Gumball (2011) (series)
![David Robb](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/441/159441934_ebc738.jpg)
David Robb
UK
Best series:
Downton Abbey (2010) (series)
I, Claudius (1976) (series)
Garrow's Law (2009) (series)
![Michael Maloney](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/422/160422865_fe4b86.jpg)
Michael Maloney
UK
Best series:
The Crown (2016) (series)
All Creatures Great and Small (2020) (series)
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
![Peter Guinness](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/343/163343128_cf8c97.jpg)
Peter Guinness
UK
Best series:
Chernobyl (2019) (series)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991) (series)
Catch-22 (2019) (series)
![Rosemary Leach](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/308/160308998_68c4a1.jpg)
Rosemary Leach (narrator)
UK
Best series:
The Jewel in the Crown (1984) (series)
Sherlock Holmes (1964) (series)
French and Saunders (1987) (series)
![Mary Wimbush](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/451/161451350_2286d7.jpg)
Mary Wimbush
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
Jeeves and Wooster (1990) (series)
Midsomer Murders (1997) (series)
![Frances Tomelty](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/455/160455745_ac25a4.jpg)
Frances Tomelty
UK
Best series:
Peaky Blinders (2013) (series)
All Creatures Great and Small (2020) (series)
Unforgotten (2015) (series)
![Patrick Brennan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/201/163201402_52e054.jpg)
Patrick Brennan
Best series:
Downton Abbey (2010) (series)
State of Play (2003) (series)
Cadfael (1994) (series)
![James Greene](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/545/160545362_90ba06.jpg)
James Greene
UK
Best series:
The Crown (2016) (series)
Downton Abbey (2010) (series)
Call the Midwife (2012) (series)
![Brenda Bruce](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/365/161365615_81fa2f.jpg)
Brenda Bruce
UK
Best series:
Jeeves and Wooster (1990) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
Sherlock Holmes (1964) (series)
Sian Thomas
UK
Best series:
Vanity Fair (1998) (series)
Merlin (2008) (series)
Taggart (1983) (series)