Movie Description
Гамлет
(1964)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Grigori Kozintsev
- Writer : Grigori Kozintsev
- Editor : Yevgeniya Makhankova
- Cast : Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy,Anastasiya Vertinskaya,Mikhail Nazvanov,Elza Radziņa,Yuriy Tolubeev,Igor Dmitriev,Vadim Medvedev,Vladimir Erenberg,Stepan Oleksenko,Grigoriy Gay,Ants Lauter,Viktor Kolpakov,Aleksandr Chekayevsky
Cast
Hamlet
Ophelia
Claudius
Gertrude
Polonius
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Horatio
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Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Priest
Gravedigger
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Facts
Original TitleГамлет
Status Released
Release Information
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1964-06-24
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 02h 20m
Production CompaniesLenfilm
Genres
- Drama
