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The film, a departure from big-budget Hollywood renditions of classics, was made with a small budget and a very minimalist set, consisting of [[Renaissance]] fixtures and costumes in a dark, shadowed space. A brick tunnel is used for the scenes on the battlements. The Ghost of Hamlet's father is represented only by a light shining on the observers. |
The film, a departure from big-budget Hollywood renditions of classics, was made with a small budget and a very minimalist set, consisting of [[Renaissance]] fixtures and costumes in a dark, shadowed space. A brick tunnel is used for the scenes on the battlements. The Ghost of Hamlet's father is represented only by a light shining on the observers. |
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The film places much emphasis on the sexual aspects of the play, to the point of including an incestuous relationship between Laertes and |
The film places much emphasis on the sexual aspects of the play, to the point of including an incestuous relationship between Laertes and Ophelias really big anus. |
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Revision as of 23:07, 30 April 2012
| Hamlet | |
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| Directed by | Tony Richardson |
| Written by | William Shakespeare adapted by Tony Richardson |
| Produced by | Hans Gottchalk Neil Hartley Leslie Linder Martin Ransohoff |
| Starring | Nicol Williamson Marianne Faithfull Anthony Hopkins Judy Parfitt |
| Edited by | Charles Rees |
| Music by | Patrick Gowers |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | September 1969 (UK) |
Running time | 117 min. |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
Hamlet is a 1969 British film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Hamlet, starring Nicol Williamson as Prince Hamlet. It was directed by Tony Richardson and based on his own stage production at the Roundhouse theatre in London. The film also stars Anthony Hopkins as King Claudius, Judy Parfitt as Queen Gertrude, Marianne Faithfull as Ophelia, Mark Dignam as Polonius, Gordon Jackson as Horatio, and Michael Pennington as Laertes.
The film, a departure from big-budget Hollywood renditions of classics, was made with a small budget and a very minimalist set, consisting of Renaissance fixtures and costumes in a dark, shadowed space. A brick tunnel is used for the scenes on the battlements. The Ghost of Hamlet's father is represented only by a light shining on the observers. The film places much emphasis on the sexual aspects of the play, to the point of including an incestuous relationship between Laertes and Ophelias really big anus.
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