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Hamlet

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.

RATING

7.30

DIRECTOR

Grigori Kozintsev

COUNTRIE

Soviet Union

RELEASE DATE

1964

TIME

2h 20m

GENRE

Drama

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Иннокентий Смоктуновский‌

Иннокентий Смоктуновский

Hamlet

Анастасия Вертинская‌

Анастасия Вертинская

Ophelia

Михаил Названов‌

Михаил Названов

Claudius

Elza Radziņa‌

Elza Radziņa

Gertrude

Юрий Толубеев‌

Юрий Толубеев

Polonius

Игорь Дмитриев‌

Игорь Дмитриев

Rosencrantz

Вадим Медведев‌

Вадим Медведев

Guildenstern

Vladimir Erenberg‌

Vladimir Erenberg

Horatio

Stepan Oleksenko‌

Stepan Oleksenko

Laertes

Grigori Gaj‌

Grigori Gaj

Ghost of Hamlet's Father

Ants Lauter‌

Ants Lauter

Priest

Виктор Колпаков‌

Виктор Колпаков

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