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Opening Show

Opening show. "Hamlet (1964)" will be presented first, followed by "Hamlet, ciganski princ (2007)"

Hamlet (1964)
Argentina, 31 minutes

Direction: David Stivel
Script: María Luz Regás and David Stivel.
Cast: Alfredo Alcón, Violeta Antier, Guillermo Bredeston, Ovidio Fuentes, Ernesto Bianco, Bárbara Mujica, Ubaldo Martínez, Jorge Rivera López, Carlos Carella, Juan Carlos Gené, Julio De Grazia, Pepe Soriano, Oscar Rovito and Fernando Siro.

In the sixties, Canal 13 produced a series of specials based on theater classics, among which was Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, with modern costumes and set up. The broadcast became the success of the year, with a rate share of 52,8. The TV show was also edited in a 45RPM disc. Unfortunately, due to the lack of preservation’s policies of TV files , just a few fragments of the show remained. This was thanks to a private collector.




Hamlet, ciganki princ (2007)
Serbia, 105 minutes

Direction: Aleksandar Rajkovic
Script: Aleksandar Rajkovic, Dusica Zegarac and Ana Marija Jarmoljuk
Cinematography: Milad Tauk
Music: Dragan Kresic
Cast: Igor Ðordevic, Petar Božovic, Miodrag Fišekovic, Suzana Petrovic, Mirjana Šišic, Srdan Bošnjakovic, Zoran Kostic, Miroslav Simic and Predrag Novak.

www.filmhamlet.com

The drama takes place in a local rubbish dump. The protagonists are gypsies precariously established in Belgrado’s sorroundings. The conflic arises not because of the throne but the control over the remains of urban life. A cast integrated, mostly, by non-professional actors gives life to a tragedy that radically changes sign.

Hamlet (1969)

Hamlet (1969)
Great Britain, 117 minutes

Direction: Tony Richardson
Script: Tony Richardson
Production: Hans Gottschalk, Neil Hartley, Leslie Linder and Martin Ransohoff
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher
Staging: Charles Rees
Production design: Jocelyn Herbert
Cast : Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Dignam, Michael Pennington, Gordon Jackson, Ben Aris, Anjelica Huston


Because of the Roundhouse Theatre’s production, Williamson was considered the best Hamlet since Gielgud. Scholars agree that Gielgud and Burton were the last two colossal actors to play this role in the 20th Century. In the film version the phlegmatic Anthony Hopkins coexists with the bloody Marianne Faithfull.

Intikam Melegi - Kadin Hamlet (1977)

Intikam Melegi - Kadin Hamlet (1977)
Turkey, 86 minutes

Direction: Metin Erksan
Script: Metin Erksan
Cinematography: Cahit Engin
Cast: Fatma Girik, Reha Yurdakul, Sevda Ferdag, Ali Cagaloglu, Ihsan Gedik, Coskun Gôgen, Ekrem Gökkaya, Yüksel Gözen, Önder Güç, Senem Kayra and Ahmet Kostarika


Once again, a female Hamlet though this time, it is a Hamlet who plays with the avant-garde until turning tragedy into a hilarious pop cocktail, musical included. Not much remembered outside his own country (where he is considered a cult director), Erksan was one of the first turkish film-makers in accusing the influence of modern european films.

Hamlet (2007)

Hamlet (2007)
Great Britain, 131 minutes

Direction: Alexander Fodor
Production: Paul Allan-Slade
Cinematography: Diego Indraccolo
Setting: Diego Indraccolo and Jovy Thomas
Music: Joe Lyske
Cast: William Bellchambers, Max Davis, Alexander Fodor, James Frail, Alan Hanson, Keaton Makki, Thomas Matthews, Patrick Monckebergy and Simon Nader

www.hamletmovie.co.uk

Respecting Shakespeare’s original text, the most updated english version proposes sudden changes in the reading of characters, placing them in a no man’s land, constantly crossed by the cultural industries’ imaginery.

Hamlet, ciganski princ (2007)

Hamlet, ciganki princ (2007)
Serbia, 105 minutes

Direction: Aleksandar Rajkovic
Script: Aleksandar Rajkovic, Dusica Zegarac and Ana Marija Jarmoljuk
Cinematography: Milad Tauk
Music: Dragan Kresi?
Cast: Igor Ðordevic, Petar Božovic, Miodrag Fišekovic, Suzana Petrovic, Mirjana Šišic, Srdan Bošnjakovic, Zoran Kostic, Miroslav Simic and Predrag Novak

www.filmhamlet.com

The drama takes place in a local rubbish dump. The protagonists are gypsies precariously established in Belgrado’s sorroundings. The conflic arises not because of the throne but the control over the remains of urban life. A cast integrated, mostly, by non-professional actors gives life to a tragedy that radically changes sign

Quella sporca storia nell west (1968)

Quella sporca storia nell west (1968)
Italy, 91 minutes

Direction: Enzo G. Castellari
Script : Tito Carpi, Francesco Scardamaglia, Enzo Castellari and Bruno Corbucci
Production: Ugo Guerra and Elio Scardamaglia
Cinematography: Angelo Filippini
Staging : Tatiana Casini Morigi
Art direction: Enzo Bulgarelli
Music: Alessandro Alessandroni, Francesco de Masi and Audrey Nohra
Cast : Andrea Giordana, Gilbert Roland, Horst Frank, Ennio Girolami, Ignazio Spalla, Françoise Prévost, Stefania Careddu, Manuel Serrano and Franco Latini


The voracity of a low produccion western carried out outside the United States (the spaghetti western) had no limits when cannibalizing classic styles and arguments. Shakespeare was no exception and his celebrated tragedy served as a model to this adventure, also known as Johnny Hamlet.

Hamlet (1948)

Hamlet (1948)
Great Britain, 155 minutes

Direction: Laurence Olivier
Adaptation: Laurence Olivier
Production: Laurence Olivier
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Staging: Helga Cranston
Art direction: Carmen Dillon
Music: William Walton
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer, Terence Morgan, Anthony Quayle, Esmond Knight and John Laurie

Not just because of the time in which this production was carried out , Olivier’s work constitutes without a doubt, the version of classic films. As such, the dramatics of this work aims at clarifying the psychology and motivation of the characters. The celebrated decision of substituting the soliloquies for monologues in off was, in that context, inevitable.

Hamlet (2007)

Hamlet (2007)
Great Britain, 131 minutes

Direction: Alexander Fodor
Production: Paul Allan-Slade
Cinematography: Diego Indraccolo
Setting: Diego Indraccolo and Jovy Thomas
Music: Joe Lyske
Cast: William Bellchambers, Max Davis, Alexander Fodor, James Frail, Alan Hanson, Keaton Makki, Thomas Matthews, Patrick Monckebergy and Simon Nader

www.hamletmovie.co.uk

Respecting Shakespeare’s original text, the most updated english version proposes sudden changes in the reading of characters, placing them in a no man’s land, constantly crossed by the cultural industries’ imaginery.

Película sorpresa

Gamlet (1964)

Gamlet (1964)
USSR, 140 minutes

Direction: Grigori Kozintsev
Translation: Boris Pasternak
Script: Grigori Kozintsev
Cinematography: Jonas Gritsius
Staging: Ye Makhankova
Production design: Yevgeni Yenej
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Cast: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina, Yuri Tolubeyev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Vadim Medvedev, Vladimir Erenberg and Stepan Oleksenko


Widely considered one of the most powerful and accurate versions of Shakespearean tragedies, the high contrast photography, the tough landscape and Shostakovich’s music in Gamlet constitutes an abominable and decadent space, without the need of adopting a naturalist code so that the film results in “cinematographic”.

Hamlet (1990)

Hamlet (1990)
United States, 165 minutes

Cameras direction: Kirk Browning
Scene setting: Kevin Kline
Production: Kimberly Myers and Iris Merlis
Edition: Girish Bhargava
Production design: John Arnore and Robin Wagner
Music: Bob James
Cast: Kevin Kline, Dana Ivey, Brian Murray, Diane Venora, Peter Francis James, Josef Sommer, Michael Cumpsty, Don Reilly, Robert Murch and Philip Goodwin


Originally produced for New York’s Shakespeare Festival, Kevin Kline’s setting was meticulously reproduced for TV cameras. The result consitutes an invaluable register of the different conceptions of theater, theatricality and acting in the contemporary american scene.

Hamlet (1948)

Hamlet (1948)
Great Britain, 155 minutes

Direction: Laurence Olivier
Adaptation: Laurence Olivier
Production: Laurence Olivier
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Staging: Helga Cranston
Art direction: Carmen Dillon
Music: William Walton
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer, Terence Morgan, Anthony Quayle, Esmond Knight and John Laurie

Not just because of the time in which this production was carried out , Olivier’s work constitutes without a doubt, the version of classic films. As such, the dramatics of this work aims at clarifying the psychology and motivation of the characters. The celebrated decision of substituting the soliloquies for monologues in off was, in that context, inevitable.

Quella sporca storia nell west (1968)

Quella sporca storia nell west (1968)
Italy, 91 minutes

Direction: Enzo G. Castellari
Script : Tito Carpi, Francesco Scardamaglia, Enzo Castellari and Bruno Corbucci
Production: Ugo Guerra and Elio Scardamaglia
Cinematography: Angelo Filippini
Staging : Tatiana Casini Morigi
Art direction: Enzo Bulgarelli
Music: Alessandro Alessandroni, Francesco de Masi and Audrey Nohra
Cast : Andrea Giordana, Gilbert Roland, Horst Frank, Ennio Girolami, Ignazio Spalla, Françoise Prévost, Stefania Careddu, Manuel Serrano and Franco Latini


The voracity of a low produccion western carried out outside the United States (the spaghetti western) had no limits when cannibalizing classic styles and arguments. Shakespeare was no exception and his celebrated tragedy served as a model to this adventure, also known as Johnny Hamlet.

Intikam Melegi - Kadin Hamlet (1977)

Intikam Melegi - Kadin Hamlet (1977)
Turkey, 86 minutes

Direction: Metin Erksan
Script: Metin Erksan
Cinematography: Cahit Engin
Cast: Fatma Girik, Reha Yurdakul, Sevda Ferdag, Ali Cagaloglu, Ihsan Gedik, Coskun Gôgen, Ekrem Gökkaya, Yüksel Gözen, Önder Güç, Senem Kayra and Ahmet Kostarika


Once again, a female Hamlet though this time, it is a Hamlet who plays with the avant-garde until turning tragedy into a hilarious pop cocktail, musical included. Not much remembered outside his own country (where he is considered a cult director), Erksan was one of the first turkish film-makers in accusing the influence of modern european films.

Hamlet (1964)

Hamlet (1964)
Argentina, 31 minutes.

Direction: David Stivel
Script: María Luz Regás and David Stivel.
Cast: Alfredo Alcón, Violeta Antier, Guillermo Bredeston, Ovidio Fuentes, Ernesto Bianco, Bárbara Mujica, Ubaldo Martínez, Jorge Rivera López, Carlos Carella, Juan Carlos Gené, Julio De Grazia, Pepe Soriano, Oscar Rovito and Fernando Siro.


In the sixties, Canal 13 produced a series of specials based on theater classics, among which was Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, with modern costumes and set up. The broadcast became the success of the year, with a rate share of 52,8. The TV show was also edited in a 45RPM disc. Unfortunately, due to the lack of preservation’s policies of TV files , just a few fragments of the show remained. This was thanks to a private collector.

Hamlet, ciganski princ (2007)

Hamlet, ciganki princ (2007)
Serbia, 105 minutes

Direction: Aleksandar Rajkovic
Script: Aleksandar Rajkovic, Dusica Zegarac and Ana Marija Jarmoljuk
Cinematography: Milad Tauk
Music: Dragan Kresic
Cast: Igor Ðordevic, Petar Božovic, Miodrag Fišekovic, Suzana Petrovic, Mirjana Šišic, Srdan Bošnjakovic, Zoran Kostic, Miroslav Simic and Predrag Novak

www.filmhamlet.com

The drama takes place in a local rubbish dump. The protagonists are gypsies precariously established in Belgrado’s sorroundings. The conflic arises not because of the throne but the control over the remains of urban life. A cast integrated, mostly, by non-professional actors gives life to a tragedy that radically changes sign.

Hamlet (1969)

Hamlet (1969)
Great Britain, 117 minutes

Direction: Tony Richardson
Script : Tony Richardson
Production: Hans Gottschalk, Neil Hartley, Leslie Linder and Martin Ransohoff
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher
Staging: Charles Rees
Production design: Jocelyn Herbert
Cast : Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Dignam, Michael Pennington, Gordon Jackson, Ben Aris, Anjelica Huston


Because of the Roundhouse Theatre’s production, Williamson was considered the best Hamlet since Gielgud. Scholars agree that Gielgud and Burton were the last two colossal actors to play this role in the 20th Century. In the film version the phlegmatic Anthony Hopkins coexists with the bloody Marianne Faithfull.

A herança (1970)

A herança (1970)
Brazil, 90 minutes

Direction: Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
Script : Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
Production: Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias, Antônio Alves Cury, Otávio Fernandes, Cleuza Rillo and Virgílio Roveda
Cinematography: Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
Staging: Luiz Elias
Music: Vidal França, Mario Litwin and Fernando Lona
Cast: David Cardoso, Bárbara Fazio, Rosalvo Caçador, Américo Taricano, Deoclides Gouveia, Zuleica Maria, Agnaldo Rayol, Túlio de Lemos and João Batista de Andrade

In opposition to the intellectual slanting of the cinema novo, Ribeiro Candeias proposed a marginalized cinema. He moves Hamlet to the sertão, where Omeleto’s tragedy (interpreted by David Cardoso, a handsome man of the time) occurs without direct sound, with dialogues and monologues with subtitles, in a permanent dialogue with popular music.

Gamlet (1964)

Gamlet (1964)
USSR, 140 minutes

Direction: Grigori Kozintsev
Translation: Boris Pasternak
Script: Grigori Kozintsev
Cinematography: Jonas Gritsius
Staging: Ye Makhankova
Production design: Yevgeni Yenej
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Cast: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina, Yuri Tolubeyev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Vadim Medvedev, Vladimir Erenberg and Stepan Oleksenko


Widely considered one of the most powerful and accurate versions of Shakespearean tragedies, the high contrast photography, the tough landscape and Shostakovich’s music in Gamlet constitutes an abominable and decadent space, without the need of adopting a naturalist code so that the film results in “cinematographic”.

Hamlet (1920)

Hamlet (1920)
Germany, 111 minutes

Direction: Sven Gade - Heinz Schall
Adaptation: Erwin Gepard
Production: Asta Nielsen
Cinematography: Curt Courant and Axel Graatkjaer
Art direction: Sven Gade and Siegfried Wroblewsky
Cast: Asta Nielsen, Fritz Achterberg, Mathilde Brandt, Paul Conradi, Anton De Verdier, Lilly Jacobson, Hans Junkermann, Heinz Stieda, Eduard von Winsterstein
Live Music Accompaniment: Seronoser Quartet, under the direction of Marcelo Katz.

In this version, which was Germany’s first cinematographic success, the prince of Denmark is, actually, a princess whose gender has been kept a secret to the townspeople since her birth, so that she could succeed his father to the throne. Playing the major role is one of the most well known divas of silent films, Asta Nielsen, also producer of the film.

Hamlet (1990)

Hamlet (1990)
United States, 165 minutes

Cameras direction: Kirk Browning
Scene setting: Kevin Kline
Production: Kimberly Myers and Iris Merlis
Edition: Girish Bhargava
Production design: John Arnore and Robin Wagner
Music: Bob James
Cast: Kevin Kline, Dana Ivey, Brian Murray, Diane Venora, Peter Francis James, Josef Sommer, Michael Cumpsty, Don Reilly, Robert Murch and Philip Goodwin


Originally produced for New York’s Shakespeare Festival, Kevin Kline’s setting was meticulously reproduced for TV cameras. The result consitutes an invaluable register of the different conceptions of theater, theatricality and acting in the contemporary american scene.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)
Great Britain, 210 minutes

Direction: Rodney Bennett
Production: Cedric Messina
Edition: Dave Hillier
Production Desing: Don Homfray
Music: Dudley Simpson
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Eric Porter, Lalla Ward, David Robb, Patrick Allen, Robert Swann, Jonathan Hyde, Geoffrey Bateman and Emrys James

In 1978, the BBC posed itself the challenge of giving a television register to the complete works of William Shakespeare. The different productions kept loyal to the original texts and counted on prestigious actors in the leading roles. There is no doubt that it is didactic television, but still in a model that is worth contemplating.

Hamlet (1964)

Hamlet (1964)
United States, 191 minutes

Direction of Camera: Bill Colleran
Scene setting: John Gielgud
Production: Alfred W. Crown, John Heyman and William Sargent Jr.
Cinematography: Bill Colleran
Staging : Bruce B. Pierce
Production design: Ben Edwards
Cast : Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield, George Rose, George Voskovec, Hugh Alexander, Philip Coolidge and Christopher Culkin

Richard Burton starrs this version of John Gielgud in Broadway. The version was registered during a performance with the sole purpose of spreading the staging in cinema rooms. Under a contract, the copies were supposed to be destroyed. However, and fortunately, Burton ignored the deal and sent a copy to the British Film Institute and decided to keep another at home for himself.

Hamlet (1969)

Hamlet (1969)
Great Britain, 117 minutes

Direction: Tony Richardson
Script : Tony Richardson
Production: Hans Gottschalk, Neil Hartley, Leslie Linder and Martin Ransohoff
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher
Staging: Charles Rees
Production design: Jocelyn Herbert
Cast : Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Dignam, Michael Pennington, Gordon Jackson, Ben Aris, Anjelica Huston


Because of the Roundhouse Theatre’s production, Williamson was considered the best Hamlet since Gielgud. Scholars agree that Gielgud and Burton were the last two colossal actors to play this role in the 20th Century. In the film version the phlegmatic Anthony Hopkins coexists with the bloody Marianne Faithfull.

Hamlet (2007)

Hamlet (2007)
Great Britain, 131 minutes

Direction: Alexander Fodor
Production: Paul Allan-Slade
Cinematography: Diego Indraccolo
Setting : Diego Indraccolo and Jovy Thomas
Music: Joe Lyske
Cast : William Bellchambers, Max Davis, Alexander Fodor, James Frail, Alan Hanson, Keaton Makki, Thomas Matthews, Patrick Monckebergy and Simon Nader
www.hamletmovie.co.uk

Respecting Shakespeare’s original text, the most updated english version proposes sudden changes in the reading of characters, placing them in a no man’s land, constantly crossed by the cultural industries’ imaginery.

Intikam Melegi - Kadin Hamlet (1977)

Intikam Melegi - Kadin Hamlet (1977)
Turkey, 86 minutes

Direction: Metin Erksan
Script: Metin Erksan
Cinematography: Cahit Engin
Cast: Fatma Girik, Reha Yurdakul, Sevda Ferdag, Ali Cagaloglu, Ihsan Gedik, Coskun Gôgen, Ekrem Gökkaya, Yüksel Gözen, Önder Güç, Senem Kayra and Ahmet Kostarika


Once again, a female Hamlet though this time, it is a Hamlet who plays with the avant-garde until turning tragedy into a hilarious pop cocktail, musical included. Not much remembered outside his own country (where he is considered a cult director), Erksan was one of the first turkish film-makers in accusing the influence of modern european films.

Hamlet (1964)

Hamlet (1964)
United States, 191 minutes

Direction of Camera: Bill Colleran
Scene setting: John Gielgud
Production: Alfred W. Crown, John Heyman and William Sargent Jr.
Cinematography: Bill Colleran
Staging: Bruce B. Pierce
Production design: Ben Edwards
Cast: Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield, George Rose, George Voskovec, Hugh Alexander, Philip Coolidge and Christopher Culkin

Richard Burton starrs this version of John Gielgud in Broadway. The version was registered during a performance with the sole purpose of spreading the staging in cinema rooms. Under a contract, the copies were supposed to be destroyed. However, and fortunately, Burton ignored the deal and sent a copy to the British Film Institute and decided to keep another at home for himself.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)
Great Britain, 210 minutes

Direction: Rodney Bennett
Production: Cedric Messina
Edition: Dave Hillier
Production Desing: Don Homfray
Music: Dudley Simpson
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Eric Porter, Lalla Ward, David Robb, Patrick Allen, Robert Swann, Jonathan Hyde, Geoffrey Bateman and Emrys James

In 1978, the BBC posed itself the challenge of giving a television register to the complete works of William Shakespeare. The different productions kept loyal to the original texts and counted on prestigious actors in the leading roles. There is no doubt that it is didactic television, but still in a model that is worth contemplating.

Quella sporca storia nell west (1968)

Quella sporca storia nell west (1968)
Italy, 91 minutes

Direction: Enzo G. Castellari
Script : Tito Carpi, Francesco Scardamaglia, Enzo Castellari and Bruno Corbucci
Production: Ugo Guerra and Elio Scardamaglia
Cinematography: Angelo Filippini
Staging : Tatiana Casini Morigi
Art direction: Enzo Bulgarelli
Music: Alessandro Alessandroni, Francesco de Masi and Audrey Nohra
Cast : Andrea Giordana, Gilbert Roland, Horst Frank, Ennio Girolami, Ignazio Spalla, Françoise Prévost, Stefania Careddu, Manuel Serrano and Franco Latini


The voracity of a low produccion western carried out outside the United States (the spaghetti western) had no limits when cannibalizing classic styles and arguments. Shakespeare was no exception and his celebrated tragedy served as a model to this adventure, also known as Johnny Hamlet.

Hamlet (1990)

Hamlet (1990)
United States, 165 minutes

Cameras direction: Kirk Browning
Scene setting: Kevin Kline
Production: Kimberly Myers and Iris Merlis
Edition: Girish Bhargava
Production design: John Arnore and Robin Wagner
Music: Bob James
Cast: Kevin Kline, Dana Ivey, Brian Murray, Diane Venora, Peter Francis James, Josef Sommer, Michael Cumpsty, Don Reilly, Robert Murch and Philip Goodwin


Originally produced for New York’s Shakespeare Festival, Kevin Kline’s setting was meticulously reproduced for TV cameras. The result consitutes an invaluable register of the different conceptions of theater, theatricality and acting in the contemporary american scene.

Hamlet, ciganski princ (2007)

Hamlet, ciganki princ (2007)
Serbia, 105 minutes

Direction: Aleksandar Rajkovic
Script: Aleksandar Rajkovic, Dusica Zegarac and Ana Marija Jarmoljuk
Cinematography: Milad Tauk
Music: Dragan Kresi?
Cast: Igor Ðordevic, Petar Božovic, Miodrag Fišekovic, Suzana Petrovic, Mirjana Šišic, Srdan Bošnjakovic, Zoran Kostic, Miroslav Simic and Predrag Novak

www.filmhamlet.com

The drama takes place in a local rubbish dump. The protagonists are gypsies precariously established in Belgrado’s sorroundings. The conflic arises not because of the throne but the control over the remains of urban life. A cast integrated, mostly, by non-professional actors gives life to a tragedy that radically changes sign.

Gamlet (1964)

Gamlet (1964)
USSR, 140 minutes

Direction: Grigori Kozintsev
Translation: Boris Pasternak
Script: Grigori Kozintsev
Cinematography: Jonas Gritsius
Staging : Ye Makhankova
Production design: Yevgeni Yenej
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Cast: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina, Yuri Tolubeyev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Vadim Medvedev, Vladimir Erenberg and Stepan Oleksenko

Widely considered one of the most powerful and accurate versions of Shakespearean tragedies, the high contrast photography, the tough landscape and Shostakovich’s music in Gamlet constitutes an abominable and decadent space, without the need of adopting a naturalist code so that the film results in “cinematographic”.

Intikam Melegi - Kadin Hamlet (1977)

Intikam Melegi - Kadin Hamlet (1977)
Turkey, 86 minutes

Direction: Metin Erksan
Script: Metin Erksan
Cinematography: Cahit Engin
Cast: Fatma Girik, Reha Yurdakul, Sevda Ferdag, Ali Cagaloglu, Ihsan Gedik, Coskun Gôgen, Ekrem Gökkaya, Yüksel Gözen, Önder Güç, Senem Kayra and Ahmet Kostarika


Once again, a female Hamlet though this time, it is a Hamlet who plays with the avant-garde until turning tragedy into a hilarious pop cocktail, musical included. Not much remembered outside his own country (where he is considered a cult director), Erksan was one of the first turkish film-makers in accusing the influence of modern european films.

Hamlet (2007)

Hamlet (2007)
Great Britain, 131 minutes

Direction: Alexander Fodor
Production: Paul Allan-Slade
Cinematography: Diego Indraccolo
Setting : Diego Indraccolo and Jovy Thomas
Music: Joe Lyske
Cast : William Bellchambers, Max Davis, Alexander Fodor, James Frail, Alan Hanson, Keaton Makki, Thomas Matthews, Patrick Monckebergy and Simon Nader
www.hamletmovie.co.uk

Respecting Shakespeare’s original text, the most updated english version proposes sudden changes in the reading of characters, placing them in a no man’s land, constantly crossed by the cultural industries’ imaginery.

Hamlet (1948)

Hamlet (1948)
Great Britain, 155 minutes

Direction: Laurence Olivier
Adaptation: Laurence Olivier
Production: Laurence Olivier
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Staging: Helga Cranston
Art direction: Carmen Dillon
Music: William Walton
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer, Terence Morgan, Anthony Quayle, Esmond Knight and John Laurie

Not just because of the time in which this production was carried out , Olivier’s work constitutes without a doubt, the version of classic films. As such, the dramatics of this work aims at clarifying the psychology and motivation of the characters. The celebrated decision of substituting the soliloquies for monologues in off was, in that context, inevitable.

Hamlet (1969)

Hamlet (1969)
Great Britain, 117 minutes

Direction: Tony Richardson
Script : Tony Richardson
Production: Hans Gottschalk, Neil Hartley, Leslie Linder and Martin Ransohoff
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher
Staging: Charles Rees
Production design: Jocelyn Herbert
Cast : Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Dignam, Michael Pennington, Gordon Jackson, Ben Aris, Anjelica Huston


Because of the Roundhouse Theatre’s production, Williamson was considered the best Hamlet since Gielgud. Scholars agree that Gielgud and Burton were the last two colossal actors to play this role in the 20th Century. In the film version the phlegmatic Anthony Hopkins coexists with the bloody Marianne Faithfull.

Película Sorpresa