Oh, obviously there have to be subtitles; my recollection is that they don't actually match the original Shakespeare very well. I presume the Russian version is Pasternak?
It is. (And the music is by Shostakovich.) I wish the transfer I'd seen had translated the Pasternak, so that I could have seen what he did with the language; instead it used abbreviated Shakespeare. I am due to rewatch the disc with a Russian-speaking friend, however, so with any luck she can tell me what has altered between great poets.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2009-11-03 10:08 pm (UTC)It is. (And the music is by Shostakovich.) I wish the transfer I'd seen had translated the Pasternak, so that I could have seen what he did with the language; instead it used abbreviated Shakespeare. I am due to rewatch the disc with a Russian-speaking friend, however, so with any luck she can tell me what has altered between great poets.