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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.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1964-06-24
- video_camera_front Companies Lenfilm
- timer Runtime: 140 Mins
- star Rating: 7.1 / 10
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- info IMDB ID tt0058126
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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Hamlet
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Ophelia
Mikhail Nazvanov
Claudius
Elza Radziņa
Gertrude
Yuriy Tolubeev
Polonius
Igor Dmitriev
Rosencrantz
Vadim Medvedev
Guildenstern
Vladimir Erenberg
Horatio
Stepan Oleksenko
Laertes
Grigori Gaj
Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Ants Lauter
Priest
Viktor Kolpakov
Gravedigger
groups Crew
Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Grigori Kozintsev
Writer
Boris Pasternak
Writer
William Shakespeare
Theatre Play
Jonas Gricius
Director of Photography
Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer
Yevgeniya Makhankova
Editor
Yevgeni Gukov
Set Decoration
Evgeny Eney
Production Design
Simon Virsaladze
Costume Design
Georgi Kropachyov
Set Decoration
Boris Khutoryansky
Sound
Valentina Kuznetsova
Assistant Director
Mikhail Shostak
Executive Producer
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