Quick facts
- Released
- June 24, 1964
- Runtime
- 140 min
- IMDb
- tt0058126
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Language
- Russian
- Studio
- Lenfilm
Cast
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
Grigoriy Gay
Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Ants Lauter
Priest
Viktor Kolpakov
Gravedigger
Aleksandr Chekayevsky
First actor
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Frequently asked questions
- What is Hamlet about?
- 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.
- Who directed Hamlet?
- Hamlet was directed by Grigori Kozintsev.
- Who stars in Hamlet?
- Hamlet stars Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radziņa.
- When was Hamlet released?
- Hamlet is a 1964 drama film.
- Where can I watch Hamlet?
- You can watch Hamlet with full details, cast, and streaming options on 3eyedraven.