Hamlet (1964)
2h 20m
Running Time
June 24, 1964Release Date
Hamlet (1964)
2h 20m
Running Time
June 24, 1964Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Hamlet
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Ophelia
Mikhail Nazvanov
Claudius korol
Elza Radzina
Gertrude koroleva
Yuriy Tolubeev
Polonius
Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Igor Dmitriev
Rosencrantz
Vadim Medvedev
Guildenstern
Boris Pasternak
Writer
William Shakespeare
Writer
Vladimir Erenberg
Horatio
Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
Stepan Oleksenko
Laertes
Grigori Gaj
Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Jonas Gricius
Cinematographer
Jonas Gricius
Cinematographer
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Hamlet (Russian: Гамлет, romanized: Gamlet) is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet.
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