Hamlet
As Osric
1996 | Drama | 242 min | PG-13
As Osric
Kenneth Branagh
William Shakespeare and Kenneth Branagh
Patrick Doyle
December 15, 1996
August 14, 2007
Castle Rock Entertainment, Fishmonger Films, Turner Pictures
Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Osric
Hamlet
Ophelia
Claudius
Gertrude
Polonius
First gravedigger
Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he already despises, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot--the most complicated and most interesting in all literature--he manages to feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the "prime minister," love an innocent girl and then drive her to madness, plot to kill his uncle only to reconsider his actions, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's.
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Extra features on this DVD include:
January 25, 1996 - April 12, 1996
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK
February 6, 1997
February 14, 1997
February 26, 1997
February 28, 1997
March 7, 1997
March 26, 1997
April 4, 1997
May 5, 1997 (extended version)
May 12, 1997 (Cannes Film Festival)
May 14, 1997 (extended version)
May 16, 1997
May 22, 1997
May 28, 1997 (edited version)
May 30, 1997
June 5, 1997
June 6, 1997
June 18, 1997 (edited version)
July 10, 1997
August 22, 1997
August 28, 1997
August 29, 1997
October 23, 1997 (edited version)
November 2, 1997 (Reykjavik Film Festival)
April 10, 1998 (wide)
December 24, 1997 (edited version)
January 24, 1998
January 3, 1999 (TV premiere)
November 20, 2001 (DVD premiere)
Hamlet, de Kenneth Branagh
Гамлет
Amlet
Robin does not appear until about 15 minutes before the end of the film.
This "complete" version of Hamlet, incorporating both the First Folio and Second Quarto editions of Shakespeare's play, is over 4 hours long.
Robin and Billy Crystal were not allowed to be on the set together for fear they would start the cast and crew laughing and cause production delays.
$18,000,000
$4,708,156 (USA)
N/A (international)
$4,708,156 (total)
$90,684 (3 theaters)
93 theaters
about 6 weeks
