Synopsis:
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
Directed by: | Grigori Kozintsev |
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Written by: | Grigori Kozintsev & Boris Pasternak |
Runtime: | 140 minutes |
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Cast:
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Hamlet
Hamlet
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Ophelia
Ophelia
Mikhail Nazvanov
Claudius
Claudius
Elza Radziņa
Gertrude
Gertrude
Yuriy Tolubeev
Polonius
Polonius
Igor Dmitriev
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
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Also known as:
- هاملت