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Hamlet is a 1969 British tragedy period drama film. It is a film adaptation of Shakespeare 's play Hamlet , starring Nicol Williamson as Prince Hamlet . [ 2 ] It was directed by Tony Richardson and based on his own stage production at the Roundhouse theatre in London . [ 3 ]
Kenneth Branagh as Prince Hamlet, the story's protagonist and Prince of Denmark.He is the son of the late King Hamlet and heir to the throne of Denmark. At first, Hamlet is depressed about his father's death and is angered by his mother Gertrude's swift remarriage to his uncle Claudius.
Hamlet (Russian: Гамлет, romanized: Gamlet) is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro [ ru ] , and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet .
The ghost of Hamlet's father is a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. In the stage directions, he is referred to as " Ghost ". His name is also Hamlet , and he is referred to as King Hamlet to distinguish him from the Prince , his son and the protagonist of the story.
This list includes adaptations of the Hamlet story, and films in which the characters are involved in acting or studying Hamlet. Oh'Phelia (UK, 1919) animated burlesque of the Hamlet story. [71] Anson Dyer director. To Be or Not To Be (USA, 1942) is the story of an acting company in 1939 Poland. Ernst Lubitsch director Jack Benny as Joseph Tura
Hamlet is a 1990 drama film based on the Shakespearean tragedy of the same name, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Mel Gibson as the eponymous character. The film also features Glenn Close , Alan Bates , Paul Scofield , Ian Holm , Helena Bonham Carter , Stephen Dillane , and Nathaniel Parker .
Hamlet is a 2009 television film adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2008 modern-dress stage production of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, aired on BBC Two on 26 December 2009. It was broadcast by PBS ' Great Performances in the United States on 28 April 2010.
The production took place because of a lighthearted agreement between Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole while they were filming Becket.O’Toole decreed that they should each play Hamlet afterwards under the direction of John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier in either London or New York City, with a coin toss deciding who would be assigned which director and which city.