Hamlet (1948)

Regisseur:

Laurence Olivier

Drehbuchautor:

William Shakespeare (play)

Premierendatum:

28. September 1948 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius...

Plot Keywords:

Men In Tights | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Hamlet | Castle | Cemetery

Filmpreise:

Won 4 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 4 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Murder Most Foul...

Besetzung

John Laurie	...	Francisco
Esmond Knight	...	Bernardo
Anthony Quayle	...	Marcellus
Niall MacGinnis	...	Sea Captain
Harcourt Williams	...	First Player
Patrick Troughton	...	Player King
Tony Tarver	...	Player Queen
Peter Cushing	...	Osric, Servant to the Court
Stanley Holloway	...	Gravedigger
Russell Thorndike	...	Priest
Basil Sydney	...	Claudius, The King
Eileen Herlie	...	Gertrude, The Queen
Laurence Olivier	...	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Norman Wooland	...	Horatio, Hamlet's friend
Felix Aylmer	...	Polonius, Lord Chamberlain

Alternativ:

Hamlet (Österreich) (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

155 Min

Produktionsland:

UK

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Altersfreigabe:

USA:Approved (PCA #12473) | South Korea:12 (2002) | UK:U | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | Australia:G

Drehorte:

Denham Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Firma:

Two Cities Films

Dies und das:

This is the first of many films that Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee would do together, including once where Cushing played Dr. Frankenstein and Lee was the Monster, and three times where Lee played Dracula and Cushing played Van Helsing.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Narrator: So oft it chances in particular men / That through some vicious mole of nature in them, / By the o'ergrowth of some complexion / Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, / Or by some habit grown too much; that these men - / Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, / Their virtues else - be they as pure as grace, / Shall in the general censure take corruption / From that particular fault... This is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind.

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Murder Most Foul...

The amount of lines taken from this play and used in our everyday conversation is staggering. Like all of the Bard's works, his endurance is not only the mastery of language, but really in storylines that just never get old. Above, everything else, Hamlet is an interesting tale. Olivier's interpretation however, is very dark. Very deliberate. He shies away from the humor completely, and instead takes a slow, purposeful tack. To that, it might not appeal to some. In such a long play and movie, the humor is sorta needed to jostle you a bit, and break the overall bleakness of the tragedy. You don't catch a break here I'm afraid. Id classify this therefore as for more advanced taste, and not for the average moviegoer. Olivier's other two attempts, Henry V and Richard III, specifically the latter, will garner more mainstream appeal.