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Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet

Innokenti Smoktunovsky (Actor), Mikhail Nazvanov (Actor), Grigori Kozintsev (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Drama
Format	Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Black & White
Contributor	Grigori Kozintsev, Rein Aren, A. Krevalid, Igor Dmitriyev, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Stepan Oleksenko, Elze Radzinya, Yuri Tolubeyev, Yuri Berkun, Viktor Kolpakov, Grigori Gaj, Vadim Medvedev, Vladimir Erenberg, V. Chekursky, Ants Lauter, Mikhail Nazvanov See more
Language	Russian
Runtime	2 hours and 20 minutes

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Considered by many the finest screen adaptation of Shakespeare's greatest work, Grigori Kozintsev's HAMLET is a spare, haunting interpretation based on a translation by novelist Boris Pasternak.

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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ FCT86928DVD
Director ‏ : ‎ Grigori Kozintsev
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Black & White
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 20 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2006
Actors ‏ : ‎ Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elze Radzinya, Yuri Tolubeyev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ Russian
Studio ‏ : ‎ Facets
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000HEWENA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #175,505 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,582 in Foreign Films (Movies & TV)
- #13,806 in Kids & Family DVDs
- #30,233 in Drama DVDs

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Maurizio

Outstanding Hamlet

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 2, 2023

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Excellent cinematic version of Shakespeare classic with first-class and never over-the-top performances by phenomenal Soviet theatrical actors. RECOMMENDED

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Dr. John E. Spivey

To be or not to be?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 11, 2007

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I have viewed this DVD twice & feel that I need to view it again to evaluate it fairly. The B&W photography is excellent. The Shostakovich score compliments the screen action but draws too much attention to itself at times so that one finds oneself listening to the music more than concentrating on the play. This is probably due to my having to follow the subtitles. The experience would be undoubtedly greatly enhanced if I could understand Russian. Can one really translate Shakespeare into Russian?

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Luther Link

Best Hamlet film

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2009

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Using Pasternak's translation, Kozinitzev has created visual images to contain the meaning of Shakespeare's words. And he has been so successful that though the language is Russian, in many ways he interprets the play in a more powerful way than, say, Olivier's Freudian perspective. The acting is outstanding; the sets are splendidly appropriate; the music, by Shostakovich, is quite right; the lighting (such as in the play within the play) is expressive. No other Hamlet so sharply brings out the sardonic (though the humor connected with Polonius is quite lost). This film is easily the most convicing forceful Hamlet ever conceived.

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The best 'Hamlet' ever made and put on the screen

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 11, 2015

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Simple. The best 'Hamlet' ever made and put on the screen. Funny, one should expect the British version should be the best. Subtitles are disappointing, taken from the original Shakespeare play, would be better if they actually reflect the adaptation dialogs, and Pasternak's masterful, brilliant translation which is so inosculate with Shostakovich's score for this movie... A must see movie for Shakespeare lovers.

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Lavid Lavester

Great...but

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2008

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I thought Smoktunovksy's performance as Hamlet was good. For the most part the film was really gripping and entertaining. Its interesting reading about the search for the perfect Hamlet, i.e. an actor as brilliant and gifted as the late Michael Chekhov, prior to the filming of the movie. Its a shame that Michael Chekhov's performance's on the stage were never filmed. .. at least thats what I think. If anyone knows otherwise, send me and email. I'd love to discuss it.

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Baobao

What about Part 2?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 10, 2017

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The English voice is awful. And the film I watched ended at "the end of part 1." What about Part 2?

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mkinla

5 stars for the film and actor, 0 stars for Amazon

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 18, 2017

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Why would you want to ruin the best Hamlet ever captured on film (which just happens to be in Russian) by adding an awful English-language audio track that can't be turned off??? Really, whoever makes these ridiculous decisions at Amazon Video needs to go back to high school. Not everyone is going to want to see this film. I did. But Amazon managed to make it available pretty much in the only possible format that makes it unwatchable. Keep the subtitles for those who need it, but either dump the super-imposed English audio or make it optional.

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Andrew Birkin

The greatest Hamlet on film ever!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 17, 2013

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I saw this film over 20 times when I was a teenager - I'd never read Hamlet in English, but Pasternak's script (subtitled in English) is masterly. Smoktunovsky as Hamlet is superb, Anastasia Vertinskaya as Ophelia is a dream, the photography sublime, and if all that wasn't enough, Shostakovitch's score is the best film score I've ever heard!

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Nicholas Casley

A Haunting Russian Interpretation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 7, 2007

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Detailed and impressive sets in haunting black and white are a feature of both Kozintsev's Shakespeare films. Here, Elsinore is perched sublimely above the ocean's breakers, providing a fiercely naturalistic background to scenes of hypocritical charm and bonhomie involving family and court at the heart of Denmark. Critics have drawn attention to how the director has populated the scenes with lurkers and scribes to represent the feel of a police state.

Bad points? Well, the subtitles are annoying. The English is a translation of Boris Pasternak's period retranslation into Russian of Shakespeare's original words. The result can be farcical in places. Also, the camerawork can be a little unsteady at times.

But don't let these small issues put you off experiencing this haunting Russian interpretation of Hamlet.

25 people found this helpful

Figueredo Andre

Impression d'avoir été floué

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on August 7, 2013

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Les caractéristiques du film sont fausses: le film est dit en russe, sans sous-titrage en aucune langue: en particulier, pas de sous-titrage français.
D'autre part, Hamlet I n'est qu'une partie de la pièce: logiquement, les 2 DVD devraient être vendues en 1 seul coffret. Faute de quoi, on pourrait croire que le DVD Hamlet 2 est une version améliorée de Hamlet 1: donc, manque de précision dans la présentation du produit.
En résumé, ne doit être acheté que par des russophones.

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Jacques DOLLET

Chef d'oeuvre en péril!

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on December 16, 2014

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Sur la mise en scène et le jeu des acteurs Le film est remarquable.
Il est juste regrettable, que le format annoncé ne soit pas conforme à celui qui est mentionné sur la pochette.
En effet e film est en cinémascope mais intégré dans un format 4/3 qui laisse apparaître de larges bandes noires autour du film. Si on souhaite modifier le format en jouant sur l’effet zoom pour qu’il prenne toute sa dimension sur un écran 19/9, cela se fait au détriment de la qualité de l’image, ce qui est regrettable pour un film de cette qualité.
A espérer comme le mentionne un autre commentaire que ce chef d’œuvre puisse un jour être remastérisé et gravé en Blu-ray. A suivre….,
Apparemment plus disponible sur Amazon, ni dans le catalogue de l’éditeur Bach film.

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Joanna chettoe

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 26, 2015

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Received as promised yet to play

Mr. D. S. PERCIVAL

Russia and Halmlet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 14, 2009

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In my opinion the film has not aged well. Looking it up in a reference book before buying it, I was astonished at its rapturous critical reception when it came out. I did see it then, and enjoyed it. Ineveitably much of the text has been jettisoned, and to be honest because of this it is never very clear what the plot or the motivation of the hero is. That said it looks good and the performances are fine. Halmlet however does look too old for the part. He'd have got away with this on the stage, but the screen is not kind to him. Ophelia is glorious.

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