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Hamlet

Duration: 2 hours, 20 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 1^st May 2016, 22:45 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Sun 1^st May 2016, 22:45 on BBC Four HD

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, learns of his father's murder by his uncle and plots revenge.

A masterful adaptation of Shakespeare's play with a memorable score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

In Russian with English subtitles. Show less

Contributors

Hamlet:: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
King Claudius:: Mikhail Nazvanov
Queen Gertrude:: Elza Radzina-Szolkonis
Polonius:: Yuri Tolubeyev
Ophelia:: Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Horatio:: Vladimir Erenberg
Laertes:: Stepan Oleksenko
Director:: Grigori Kozintsev
Writer:: Boris Pasternak
Composer:: Dmitri Shostakovich

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