Hamlet

Release Date:

Dec 25, 1996

MPAA Rating:

PG-13

Running Time:

4:02

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Kenneth Branagh

Cast:

Kenneth Branagh	Hamlet
Julie Christie	Gertrude
Billy Crystal	First Gravedigger
Gérard Depardieu	Reynaldo
Charlton Heston	Player King
Derek Jacobi	Claudius
Jack Lemmon	Marcellus
Rufus Sewell	Fortinbras
Robin Williams	Osric
Kate Winslet	Ophelia
Richard Attenborough	English Ambassador
Brian Blessed	Ghost
Richard Briers	Polonius
Judi Dench	Hecuba
Reece Dinsdale	Guildenstern
Ken Dodd	Yorick
Nicholas Farrell	Horatio
Ray Fearon	Francisco
John Gielgud	Priam
Rosemary Harris	Player Queen
Ian McElhinney	Barnardo
Michael Maloney	Laertes
John Mills	Old Norway
Simon Russell Beale	Second Gravedigger
Timothy Spall	Rosencrantz

Producers:

David Barron

Writers:

Kenneth Branagh

Language:

English

Related Programs:

Romeo and Juliet

Phaedra

Richard III

Twelfth Night

Songe d'une Nuit d'Éte

The Banquet

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In the only unabridged film version of the classic play, here updated to the 19th century, Prince Hamlet is traumatized by the revelation that his father was murdered by the present king, Claudius, with the aid of Hamlet's mother, Gertrude . Hamlet considers a plot for revenge and mistakenly kills Polonius, the father of his love, Ophelia, causing a chain reaction that leads to a climactic and tragic ending.

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