Stella Adler

Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro, Warren Beatty and Candice Bergen are among the noted performers who studied with Stella Adler, the charismatic and influential American acting teacher who died in 1992, three years after this evocative portrait was made. Combining an interview with archive stills and film footage, recollections of colleagues and students, and sequences of her at work with actors, the programme shows that the terms ‘style’, ‘scope’, ‘size’, ‘power’ – key words she used in class – aptly describe Adler herself.