Hamlet (1964)
Movie
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.
Directed By : Grigori Kozintsev
Genres : Drama
Status : Released
Released : Jun 24, 1964
Length : 140 minutes
Cast
Crew
- Director : Grigori Kozintsev
- Writer : Grigori Kozintsev
- Writer : Boris Pasternak
- Theatre Play : William Shakespeare
- Director of Photography : Jonas Gricius
- Original Music Composer : Dmitri Shostakovich
- Editor : Yevgeniya Makhankova
- Set Decoration : Yevgeni Gukov
- Production Design : Evgeny Eney
- Costume Design : Simon Virsaladze
- Set Decoration : Georgi Kropachyov
- Sound : Boris Khutoryansky
- Assistant Director : Valentina Kuznetsova
- Executive Producer : Mikhail Shostak