Hamlet
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.
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Edited by Egbert AdjesuShot by R O FenukuScored by Dmitri ShostakovichDesigned by Yevgeni Yenej
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Cast & Crew
63 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
as Hamlet
Richard Burton
as Hamlet
Michael Alaimo
as Player #3
Ernest Abbeyquaye
as Polonius
Mikhail Nazvanov
as Claudius korol
Hume Cronyn
as Polonius
Ian Cameron
as Rosencrantz
Samuel Adumuah
as Awudu
Elza Radzina
as Gertrude koroleva
Alfred Drake
as Claudius
Staats Cotsworth
as Polonius
Kwame Adunuo
as Mahama
Supporting cast
28Yuriy Tolubeev
as Polonius
Eileen Herlie
as Gertrude
Joe Akonor
as King
Howard Da Silva
as Claudius
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
as Ophelia
William Redfield
as Guildenstern
Franklin Akrofi
as Banda
Clifford David
as Laertes
Vladimir Erenberg
as Horatio
George Rose
as First Gravedigger
Fred Akuffo Lartey
as Osuru
Morris D Erby
as Barnardo
Stepan Oleksenko
as Laertes
George Voskovec
as Player King
Sandy Arkhurst
as Ghost
Vadim Medvedev
as Guildenstern
Shanco Bruce
as 2nd Gravedigger
Igor Dmitriev
as Rosencrantz
Gad Gadugan
as Abdulai
Robin Gammell
as Player #2
Aadu Krevald
as Fortinbras
Hugh Alexander
as English Ambassador
Jacob Gharbin
as Musa
Julie Harris
as Ophelia
Philip Coolidge
as Voltimand
Kit Culkin
as Player Queen
Stacy Keach Sr
as Player #1
Tom Klunis
as Horatio
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