Gamlet (1964) - film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Rima Greenhill (Stanford University)

Ed. by Ema Vyroubalova, Trinity College Dublin
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Domains

Cinema/ Film/ TV

Dates

Date of occurrence 1964

Places

Russia (Location)

Genres and Modes

Adaptation

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Adapted from William Shakespeare’s

Hamlet.

Directed by Grigori Kozintsev. Starring Innokenty Smoktunovsky (Hamlet), Anastasia Vertinskaya (Ophelia), Elza Radzina (Gertrude), Mikhail Nazvanov (Claudius), Yuri Tolubeev (Polonius), Vladimir Ehrenberg (Horatio), Stepan Oleksenko (Laertes). Translation into modern Russian by Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). In Russian; English subtitles derived from the original Shakespeare text. Musical score by Dmitri Shostakovich. Black and White. 140 minutes.

The first rendition of Hamlet to be filmed in the Soviet Union, Gamlet premiered in 1964 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.The director, GrigoriKozintsev (1905-1973)brought a rich background of Shakespearian scholarship to the film, having already produced on stage King

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Citation: Greenhill, Rima. "Gamlet (1964) - film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 July 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19409, accessed 24 November 2024.]