William Shakespeare's Hamlet ( Hamlet )

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Hamlet
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
242 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Kenneth Branagh

Written By:
William Shakespeare
Kenneth Branagh

Actors:
Riz Abbasi ..... Attendant to Claudius
Richard Attenborough ..... English Ambassador
David Blair ..... Attendant to Claudius
Brian Blessed ..... Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Kenneth Branagh ..... Hamlet
Richard Briers ..... Polonius
Michael Bryant ..... Priest
Peter Bygott ..... Attendant to Claudius
Julie Christie ..... Gertrude
Billy Crystal ..... First Gravedigger
Charles Daish ..... Stage Manager
Judi Dench ..... Hecuba
Gerard Depardieu ..... Reynaldo
Reece Dinsdale ..... Guildenstern
Ken Dodd ..... Yorick

Synopsis:

At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet was the first to preserve Shakespeare's entire text, uncut and unabridged. Moving the action into the 19th century, Branagh cast himself in the title role and, as in his adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, assembled an eclectic group of actors that mixed veteran Shakespearean performers (including John Mills, Judi Dench, John Gielgud, and Derek Jacobi) with Hollywood stars not known for interpreting the Bard's work (among them Robin Williams, Charlton Heston, Billy Crystal, and Jack Lemmon). However, unlike most interpretations, it's the women who really carry the show, with the two best performances delivered by Kate Winslet as Ophelia and Julie Christie as Gertrude. As usual, Hamlet finds himself torn over what to do after the death of his father and his mother's hasty remarriage. Branagh's version of Hamlet was also notable on a technical level, as it was filmed in the 70-mm format for increased visual clarity and detail.

Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot--the most complicated and most interesting in all literature--he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the 'prime minister,' love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 07 December, 2012.

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