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Hamlet is a 1964 Soviet black-and-white drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev, who also wrote the screenplay. The movie is based on the work of William Shakespeare and features Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, and Elza Radziņa in the cast. Dmitri Shostakovich composed the score, while Jonas Gricius served as director of photography. Produced and distributed by Lenfilm, the film was released on May 3, 1964, and June 24, 1964.
The narrative is set in a castle in Denmark and includes characters such as Prince Hamlet, King Claudius, Gertrude, and Polonius. The runtime is 140 minutes. The film received the Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival. It holds a rating of 8.2 on IMDb and a vote average of 7.173 on TMDb.
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7.2Shakespeare'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.
Cast
- Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Hamlet
- Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Ophelia
- Mikhail Nazvanov as Claudius
- Elza Radziņa as Gertrude
- Yuriy Tolubeev as Polonius
- Igor Dmitriev as Rosencrantz
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- tragedy
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Original language
- Russian
- Based on
- Hamlet
- Director
- Grigori Kozintsev
- Screenwriter
- Grigori Kozintsev
- Cast member
- Ants Lauter
- Composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Production company
- Lenfilm
- Cinematographer
- Jonas Gricius
- Narrative location
- Denmark
- Duration
- 144
- FilmAffinity ID
- 362294
- Image
- 1966 CPA 3328.jpg
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- publication date
- 1964-06-24
- title
- Гамлет
- after a work by
- William Shakespeare
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Lenfilm
- set in environment
- castle
- characters
- Fortinbras
- Commons category
- Hamlet (1964 film)
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