- Country: Soviet Union
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1964-05-03
- Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev
- Writers: Grigoriy Kozintsev , Boris Pasternak , William Shakespeare
- Language: Russian | German | French
- Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy , Mikhail Nazvanov , Elza Radzina , Yuriy Tolubeev , Anastasiya Vertinskaya , Vladimir Erenberg , Stepan Oleksenko , Vadim Medvedev , Igor Dmitriev , Aadu Krevald
- Runtime: 140 min
- Awards: Nominated for 2 BAFTA 5 wins & 6 nominations total
- AKA: Hamlet (Hungary) , ハムレット (Japan) , Hamlet (France, French Republic) , Гамлет , Hamlet (Mexico) , Hamlet (Turkey) , Gamlet , Хамлет (Bulgaria) , Hamlet , Hamlet (Norway) , Amleto (Italy) , Hamlet (United States of America) , Hamlet (Iran) , Hamlet (Poland) , Hamlet (Romania) , Hamlet (United Kingdom) , Гамлет (Russian Federation) , Hamlet , Hamlet (Denmark) , Hamlet (Canada) , Hamlet (Finland) , Amlet (Greece) , Hamlet (Argentina) , Hamlet (Brazil)
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt0058126
Hamlet Cast · · · ALL
Grigoriy Kozintsev
Director
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Hamlet
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Ophelia
Mikhail Nazvanov
Claudius
Elza Radzina
Gertrude
Yuriy Tolubeev
Polonius
Vadim Medvedev
Guildenstern
Vladimir Erenberg
Horatio
Stepan Oleksenko
Laertes
Ants Lauter
Priest
Viktor Kolpakov
Gravedigger