Movie
1996
Hamlet is a 1996 epic historical drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, adapting William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. It stars Branagh in the title role, along with Derek Jacobi as King Claudius, Julie Christie as Queen Gertrude, Kate Winslet as Ophelia, Michael Maloney as Laertes, Richard Briers as Polonius, and Nicholas Farrell as Horatio. Other cast members include…
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*Hamlet* is the best known of all Shakespeare's plays. Needless to say, this guaranteed that the many film-makers in various countries would use it as source of inspiration. Many film adaptations of *Hamlet* were made, but they all had one major flaw. The unabridged text of Shakespeare's play usually resulted in four hours of performance on the stage. Those four hours were too much for the film-makers, studios or th…More
