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Гамлет

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.

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  1. Director : Grigori Kozintsev
  2. Writer : Grigori Kozintsev,Boris Pasternak
  3. Editor : Yevgeniya Makhankova
  4. Cast : Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy,Anastasiya Vertinskaya,Mikhail Nazvanov,Elza Radziņa,Yuriy Tolubeev,Igor Dmitriev,Vadim Medvedev,Vladimir Erenberg,Stepan Oleksenko,Grigori Gaj,Ants Lauter,Viktor Kolpakov

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Original TitleГамлет

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1964-06-24

Original LanguageUnknown

Runtime 02h 20m

Production CompaniesLenfilm

Genres

  • Drama

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