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7.2/10 • 48

1964-06-242h 20m

Drama

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.

Directors
Grigori Kozintsev
Writters
Grigori Kozintsev, Boris Pasternak
Editors
Grigori Kozintsev, Boris Pasternak, Yevgeniya Makhankova

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  1. Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

    Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

    Hamlet

  2. Anastasiya Vertinskaya

    Anastasiya Vertinskaya

    Ophelia

  3. Mikhail Nazvanov

    Mikhail Nazvanov

    Claudius

  4. Elza Radziņa

    Elza Radziņa

    Gertrude

  5. Yuriy Tolubeev

    Yuriy Tolubeev

    Polonius

  6. Igor Dmitriev

    Igor Dmitriev

    Rosencrantz

  7. Vadim Medvedev

    Vadim Medvedev

    Guildenstern

  8. Vladimir Erenberg

    Vladimir Erenberg

    Horatio

  9. Stepan Oleksenko

    Stepan Oleksenko

    Laertes

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Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Budget
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