Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.

Starring:

Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Ants Lauter, Elza Radzina, Grigori Gaj, Igor Dmitriyev, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Rein Aren, Stepan Oleksenko, Vadim Medvedev, Viktor Kolpakov, Vladimir Erenberg, Yuri Tolubeyev

Genre:

Drama