Όταν ο βασιλιάς πατέρας του δολοφονείται και η βασίλισσα μητέρα του αιχμαλωτίζεται, ένας νεαρός Βίκινγκ πρίγκιπας ορκίζεται να πάρει εκδίκηση. Χρόνια αργότερα, θα επιστρέψει στην πατρίδα του για να εκπληρώσει την υπόσχεσή του...
Η υπόθεση ακολουθεί την ιστορία του Δανού Πρίγκιπα Άμλετ, ωστόσο η αφήγηση πραγματοποιείται από την ίδια την Οφηλία. Η Οφηλία είναι πιο έμπιστη κυρία των τιμών στην αυλή της Βασίλισσας Γερτρούδης, μητέρας του Άμλετ. Σύντομα ο Πρίγκιπας θα γοητευτεί από την Οφηλία και έτσι θα ξεκινήσει ανάμεσά τους ένας απαγορευμένος έρωτας, καθώς ο πόλεμος και η προδοσία αρχίζουν να κλονίζουν τα θεμέλια του κάστρου Elsinore.
Η Φάννυ και ο Αλέξανδρος, παιδιά μιας οικογένειας θεατρίνων, μεγαλώνουν ευτυχισμένα σε ένα ιδανικό περιβάλλον, μέχρι που η ζωή τους συγκλονίζεται από την απώλεια του πατέρα τους. Ο δεύτερος γάμος της μητέρας τους μ’ έναν σαδιστή και αυταρχικό κληρικό, θα τους φέρει αντιμέτωπους με τους απάνθρωπους καταναγκασμούς του εκκλησιαστικού πουριτανισμού. Ο μικρός Αλέξανδρος όμως, με όχημα τα όνειρα του, Θα αντισταθεί ενστικτωδώς αλλά και σθεναρά, στις επιβολές της αρρωστημένης χριστιανικής ηθικής.
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre Royal Windsor to transform it into the immortal Elsinore Castle, from basement dungeon to roof-top battlement.
A radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, the avenging prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare's creature; his origins and his unending influence on many diverse cultures.
Πρόκειται για μία σύγχρονη διασκευή της τραγωδίας του Ουίλιαμ Σαίξπηρ," Άμλετ", με την οποία ο Ινδός σκηνοθέτης κλείνει τη σαιξπηρική τριλογία που είχε αρχίσει με τις ταινίες: Maqbool (2003) και Omkara (2006).
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Desperate filmmaker Osric Taylor dreams of making his civil war Hamlet but when production funding dries up, he agrees to take southern matron Hester Beauchamps offer to fund the film if he throws some zombies in it to make their money back. But when Hester dies in mid shoot, Osric dresses up as Hester to cash the last check and awakens the suspicions of both the local police and ambitious local news reporter Shine Reynolds. Inspired by an actual incident.
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
One of the greatest Hamlets of the 20th century Sir John Gielgud reflects on the play and its title character with which he used to be intimately associated for ever since 1929.
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's play, and the enduring popular fascination it has inspired. The actors interviewed are Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Nicol Williamson, Ben Kingsley, Jean Louis Barrault, Vittorio Gassman, Maximilian Schell, Innocenti Smoktunovsky, and Mandy Patinkin. Includes excerpts from various film and television versions of Hamlet, featuring these actors and others.
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.