Гамлет (1964)
Hamlet
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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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
as Hamlet
as Hamlet
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
as Ophelia
as Ophelia
Mikhail Nazvanov
as Claudius
as Claudius
Elza Radziņa
as Gertrude
as Gertrude
Yuriy Tolubeev
as Polonius
as Polonius
Igor Dmitriev
as Rosencrantz
as Rosencrantz
Vadim Medvedev
as Guildenstern
as Guildenstern
Vladimir Erenberg
as Horatio
as Horatio
Stepan Oleksenko
as Laertes
as Laertes
Grigori Gaj
as Ghost of Hamlet's Father
as Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Ants Lauter
as Priest
as Priest
Viktor Kolpakov
as Gravedigger
as Gravedigger
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Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Director
Grigori Kozintsev
Writer
Writer
Boris Pasternak
Writer
Writer
William Shakespeare
Theatre Play
Theatre Play
Jonas Gricius
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Yevgeniya Makhankova
Editor
Editor
Yevgeni Gukov
Set Decoration
Set Decoration
Evgeny Eney
Production Design
Production Design
Simon Virsaladze
Costume Design
Costume Design
Georgi Kropachyov
Set Decoration
Set Decoration
Boris Khutoryansky
Sound
Sound
Valentina Kuznetsova
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
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