Hamlet, who has returned safely to confront the king, agrees to a fencing match with Ophelia’s brother, Laertes, who secretly poisons his own rapier. After Polonius’s death, Ophelia goes mad and later drowns. Claudius sends Hamlet away as part of a deadly plot. Hamlet, now free to act, mistakenly kills Polonius, thinking he is Claudius. The ghost of his father appears to Hamlet, informs him that he was poisoned by Claudius, and commands Hamlet to avenge his death. In this high-tech contemporary telling, Ethan Hawke stars as the young brooding heir to the Denmark Corporation, out to avenge the murder of his powerful CEO father.Broadband Select from the list of servers belowħ20p Choose Server 1 1080p Choose Server 2 4K Choose Server 3 HD Choose Server 4Īs Shakespeare’s play opens, Hamlet is mourning his father, who has been killed, and lamenting the behaviour of his mother, Gertrude, who married his uncle Claudius within a month of his father’s death. This is arguably the definitive film version of Hamlet. In this 4+ hour rendering, Kenneth Branagh presents the complete Shakespearean text of the play, and stages the action within a 19th-century setting. The director takes some license in the telling, adhering less strictly to Shakespeare's original text, but at just 2 hours and 15 minutes, this version provides a short and passionate interpretation of the play. This early film version won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor awards for Laurence Olivier in the title role.
Produced and Directed by: Laurence Olivier.That makes Shakespeare the most filmed playwright of all time! Here are the best, and most noteworthy, versions of Hamlet that can help you study and better understand the play. Adaptations of Shakespeare's plays and other works have been featured in nearly 500 films and/or videos world-wide.
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