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Title: Hamlet (1996)
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Riz Abbasi | ... |
Attendant to Claudius
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| Richard Attenborough | ... | ||
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David Blair | ... |
Attendant to Claudius
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| Brian Blessed | ... | ||
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | ||
| Richard Briers | ... | ||
| Michael Bryant | ... | ||
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Peter Bygott | ... |
Attendant to Claudius
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| Julie Christie | ... | ||
| Billy Crystal | ... | ||
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Charles Daish | ... |
Stage Manager
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| Judi Dench | ... | ||
| Gérard Depardieu | ... | ||
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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. Written by John Brosseau <brossj5683@aol.com>
The actors play wonderfully, especially Kenneth Branagh himself. It's good that Robin Williams got the comedy role of Osiric, otherwise it could be a bit strange to see him in such a production. It is really great that Kenneth decided to use the fullest version of the text, this happens definitely not too often... Thanks to that the viewers can see the whole, not the chosen - by the director - parts. Also - thank God that the film is in a classical form; NO to surrealistic fanfaberies ! Although "Tytus Andronicus" was impressive nevertheless, but still Hamlet is a different story, at least that's my point of view.