Based on the play: Hamlet / by William Shakespeare ; as translated into Russian by Boris Pasternak. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964. English language credits from subtitles. Russian language title transliterated from screen. Booklet includes 3 short biographies by Alissa Simon (of Grigori Kozintsev, Boris Pasternak, & Dmitri Shostakovich) and an essay by Mark Sokolyansky ("Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear"). Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elsa Radzin, Yuri Tolubeyev, Anastasia Vertinskaya.
Summary:
Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death.
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