Total lifetime gross $4,708,156 (Box Office Mojo, 2005) Awards 1997 Academy Awards. Also included the featurette TO BE ON CAMERA: A HISTORY WITH HAMLET’, the 1996 Cannes Film Festival promo, and trailers from several Shakespeare films. The DVD released in 2007 includes an introduction by by Branagh and commentary by Professor Russell Jackson. Language English Country United States Medium Film Technical information Colour / Sound Year of release 1996 Duration 242 mins 21,803 feet Credits Director Kenneth Branagh Producer David Barron Cinematographer Alex Thomson Writer William Shakespeare Screenplay Kenneth Branagh Music Patrick Doyle Costume Alex Byrne Art Direction Tim Harvey Cast Kenneth BranaghĪdditional Details Production type Fiction Films Historical period Victorian Plays Hamlet Subjects Drama Keywords drama in English film adaptations Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Related items Hamlet: To Cut or Not to Cut? Readiness is All: The Filming of Hamlet, The Notes Notes The video version is an edited version of the original film, but the DVD version is complete. The film was shot on 65mm and released in 70mm. Set in the 19th century with many stars giving cameo performances in minor roles. Those are precisely the qualities that keep this admirable Hamlet-and Hamlet-from being a thrilling one.Synopsis A film adaptation of Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh in the title role. What's lacking in this merchant of culture is Olivier's danger, the preening beauty and sweet delirium that makes an actor a star. He has spoken admiringly of Shakespeare's business sense, and he has it too he also possesses Olivier's keen ambition, the entrepreneurial magnetism that attracts the brightest lights of Britain and Hollywood to his projects. Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster. If there's a lapse, it's in the central performance.
The cast is mostly excellent, with Crystal a nice surprise as the gravedigger and Richard Briers rescuing Polonius from amiable fuddery this old man is as much plotter as plodder. But Laertes has similar reasons for hating Hamlet, and here he has the same carnal, bloody and unnatural itch for Ophelia that Hamlet has for Gertrude. Hamlet, after all, hates his stepfather because he seduced the lad's mother and killed his father. Winslet's decline is an edifying horror show Christie gives all her urgent glamour to Gertrude's one big speech and Michael Maloney's subtle power as Laertes makes him a kind of good twin to the melancholy Dane.
This version is strongest where most shorter productions fail: in Act IV, where, in Hamlet's absence, Ophelia goes picturesquely mad while the star gets to catch his breath.
Here he might be a Henry V who's gone just this side of bonkers.
HAMLET FULL MOVIE WISNLET FULL VERSION
The full version restores Shakespeare's emphasis on court politics, with whispers of intrigue that establish Hamlet and Laertes as potential usurpers of Claudius' throne, and massed armies behind Hamlet. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's to Mel Gibson's, seem like samplings-a Reduced Shakespeare Company run-through of Hamlet's greatest hits.īig and pretty, vigorous, thoughtful, this Hamlet expands the story with helpful flashbacks Yorick, Priam, Old Norway come alive as if from a vivid history book. To his credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistic stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature damn well deserved to be filmed in full. If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award.
Follow the most eclectic cast in movie history-Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen-in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra).
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