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Director:
Tony Richardson
Writers:
Tony Richardson (writer)
William Shakespeare (play)
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Release Date:
September 1969 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
From the author of "Romeo and Juliet"... the love story of Hamlet and Ophelia. more
User Comments:
Breath-taking shifts and lighting reminiscent of Rembrandt more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Shakespeare's Hamlet (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
117 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Last full length feature film of Roger Livesey. more
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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Breath-taking shifts and lighting reminiscent of Rembrandt, 12 December 1999
Author: BozMan-2 from Golden, B. C., Canada

Yes, I'll concede that Kenneth Branaugh's uncut version of Shakespeare's text (never played on the Elizabethan stage, in all likelihood) is a benchmark for cinematic *Hamlet*s, but Williamson's performance (particularly his voice-over soliloquies) is still highly thought-provoking thirty years later. The film is like a moving Rembrandt painting (*The Night Watch* comes to mind) with its restless, shifting light and dissolves. It took great courage, for example, for Richardson not to show the Ghost, but rather to reveal him as a burning white light whose impact we feel by the responses of Horatio and the guards. Big budget and big screen it's not, but Richardson's direction has meticulously thought out many significant production details. This is definitely a cerebral *Hamlet* that gives the view

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