Release Date

24 Jun, 1964

Runtime

02:20: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Гамлет

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Actors

Иннокентий Смоктуновский

Анастасия Вертинская

Михаил Названов

Elza Radziņa

Юрий Толубеев

Игорь Дмитриев

Вадим Медведев

Владимир Эренберг

Степан Олексенко

Григорий Гай

Ants Lauter

Виктор Колпаков

Александр Чекаевский

Crew

Григорий Козинцев

Григорий Козинцев

William Shakespeare

Jonas Gricius

Дмитрий Шостакович

Евгения Маханькова

Евгений Еней

Simon Virsaladze

Евгений Гуков

Михаил Шостак

Иосиф Шапиро

Борис Хуторянский

Николай Рабинович

Василий Горюнов