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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.

Directing:
  • Grigori Kozintsev

Writing:
  • William Shakespeare
  • Boris Pasternak
  • Grigori Kozintsev

Stars:
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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  • Country: SU
  • Language: Pусский
  • Runtime: 140
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Anastasiya Ve...
Ophelia
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Innokentiy Sm...
Hamlet
Mikhail Nazvanov
Mikhail Nazva...
Claudius
Elza Radziņa
Elza Radziņa
Gertrude
Yuriy Tolubeev
Yuriy Tolubee...
Polonius
Igor Dmitriev
Igor Dmitriev
Rosencrantz
Vadim Medvedev
Vadim Medvede...
Guildenstern
Vladimir Erenberg
Vladimir Eren...
Horatio
Stepan Oleksenko
Stepan Olekse...
Laertes
Grigori Gaj
Grigori Gaj
Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Rein Aren
Rein Aren
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Yuri Berkun
Yuri Berkun
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Ants Lauter
Ants Lauter
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Viktor Kolpakov
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