Hamlet

Hamlet by Grigori Kozintsev

7.13

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

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Hamlet

Anastasiya Vertinskaya

Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Ophelia

Mikhail Nazvanov

Mikhail Nazvanov as Claudius

Elza Radziņa

Elza Radziņa as Gertrude

Yuriy Tolubeev

Yuriy Tolubeev as Polonius

Igor Dmitriev

Igor Dmitriev as Rosencrantz

Vadim Medvedev

Vadim Medvedev as Guildenstern

Vladimir Erenberg

Vladimir Erenberg as Horatio

Stepan Oleksenko

Stepan Oleksenko as Laertes

Grigori Gaj

Grigori Gaj as Ghost of Hamlet's Father

Ants Lauter

Ants Lauter as Priest

Viktor Kolpakov

Viktor Kolpakov as Gravedigger

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