Hamlet (1969)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1969
Running Times: 117 mins
Length: 10573 ft / 3223 metres
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Filmways Pictures / Woodfall Film Productions
Producers: Hans Gottschalk, Neil Hartley, Leslie Linder, Martin Ransohoff

SCRIPT
Script: Tony Richardson
Play: William Shakespeare

DIRECTION
Director: Tony Richardson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Gerry Fisher

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Charles Rees

MUSIC
Music: Patrick Gowers

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Tony Jackson
Re-Recording Mixer: Gerry Humphreys

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Jocelyn Herbert

CAST
Nicol Williamson (Hamlet)
Gordon Jackson (Horatio)
Anthony Hopkins (Claudius)
Judy Parfitt (Gertrude)
Mark Dignam (Polonius)
Michael Pennington (Laertes)
Marianne Faithfull (Ophelia)
Ben Aris (Rosencrantz)
Clive Graham (Guildenstern)
Peter Gale (Osric)
John J. Carney (player king)
Richard Everett (player queen)
Roger Livesey (1st player / gravedigger)
Robin Chadwick (Francisco)
Ian Collier (priest)
Michael Elphick (captain)
Mark Griffith (messenger)
Anjelica Huston (court lady)
Bill Jarvis (courtier)
Roger Lloyd-Pack (Reynaldo)
John Railton (1st sailor)
John Treneman (Barnardo)
Jennifer Tudor (court lady)

Hamlet assumes the throne of Denmark on the death of his father. The ghost of his father appears and claims that his brother Claudius - now married to Hamlet's mother - was his killer and urges Hamlet to avenge his death. The young prince embarks on an elaborate scheme to determine the truth but succeeds only in killing the father of his beloved Ophelia and driving her to suicide. Events escalate out of control, ultimately threatening not only Hamlet and his family but also the whole of Denmark.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Sweden
Rating: 11

USA
Rating: G

1971
February
1: Sweden - theatrical release

SEE ALSO
Amleto (1908)
Amleto (1908)
Amleto (1910)
Amleto (1914)
Amleto (1917)
Le duel d'Hamlet (1900)
Gamlet (1964)
Green Eggs and Hamlet (1995)
Hamile (1964)
Hamlet (1907)
Hamlet (1909)
Hamlet (1910a)
Hamlet (1910b)
Hamlet (1910c)
Hamlet (1913)
Hamlet (1921)
Hamlet (1947)
Hamlet (1948)
Hamlet (1954)
Hamlet (1955)
Hamlet (1959)
Hamlet (1960)
Hamlet (1964a)
Hamlet (1964b)
Hamlet (1964)
Hamlet (1970)
Hamlet (1972)
Hamlet (1973)
Hamlet (1976)
Hamlet (1987)
Hamlet (1990)
Hamlet (1990a)
Hamlet (1992b)
Hamlet (1996)
Hamlet (2000)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)
Herança (1970)
Io, Amleto (1952)
Khoon Ka Khoon (1935)
Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark (1984)

play into film; ghosts; royalty; princes; revenge; suicide; denmark; politics