
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.
- 7.8
- 1964
- Released
- 2h 50m

Christopher Plummer
Hamlet
Robert Shaw
Claudius
Alec Clunes
Polonius
Michael Caine
Horatio
June Tobin
Gertrude
Jo Maxwell Muller
Ophelia
Roy Kinnear
Gravedigger
Philip Locke
Osric
Peter Prowse
Marcellus
David Calderisi
Rosencrantz
Bill Wallis
Guildenstern
Charles Carson
Priest
Lindsay Kemp
Player Queen
Steven Berkoff
Lucianus
Donald Sutherland
Fortinbras
Joby Blanshard
Captain
Michael Goldie
BernardoReleased
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It's tempting to just think of Christopher Plummer as Capt. von Trapp and little else, but a casual glance at his stage credentials illustrate that he was well chosen for his title role in this Shakespearian tragedy. This adaptation also benefits from being a British/Danish co-production so was even filmed in Elsinore, too. You'' probably know the stroy of the eponymous Prince who has lost his fat











