Gamlet
Summary:
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 Smoktun... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Innokenty Smoktunovsky - (Hamlet)
Mikhail Nazvanov - (King)
Elza Radzina - (Queen)
Yuri Tolubeyev - (Polonius)
Anastasia Vertinskaya - (Ophelia)
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Review:
Considered by many to be the finest film adaptation of Hamlet, Gamlet is a stunning work of cinematic art. Yes, there are flaws: Purists, for example, will decry the cutting of text so that a four-hour play unspools at 140 minutes. Yet this is a charge that can levied at almost every adaptation of this lengthy, complex work, and director Gr... Continue >>
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