The Tempest is a 1979 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Directed by Derek Jarman, produced by Don Boyd, with Heathcote Williams as Prospero, it also stars Toyah Willcox, Jack Birkett, Karl Johnson and Helen Wellington-Lloyd from Jarman's previous feature, Jubilee (1977).
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Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, and gay rights activist.
Jarman during the 1991 Venice Film Festival
Jarman's headstone in the graveyard of St Clement's Church, Old Romney
Derek Jarman's garden, Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, in May 2007