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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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Cast & Crew
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Hamlet was released on June 24, 1964.
The runtime of Hamlet is 2h 20m.
Hamlet is a Drama movie.
Hamlet has a rating of 7.1 out of 10 on TMDB.
Hamlet is available to watch. Check streaming platforms and theaters near you.
Hamlet was directed by Grigori Kozintsev.
The main cast of Hamlet includes Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov.
Hamlet is originally in RU.