William Shakespeare - Hamlet DVD 1980 / BBC Theatre Play / Directed by Rodney Bennett / Cast: Derek Jacobi - Hamlet, Claire Bloom - Gertrude, Patrick Stewart - Claudius, Lalla Ward - Ophelia

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REGION 2 PAL DVD 

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO:  Hungarian 2.0, English 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian, English

Total Runtime: 212 minutes

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

English Summary:

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ˈhæmlɪt/), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.

Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others".It was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most performed, topping the performance list of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. It has inspired many other writers—from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charles Dickens to James Joyce and Iris Murdoch—and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella".

"There can be no such thing as a definitive Hamlet, let alone Hamlet. Nonetheless this relatively uncut version is the standard by which the Murphy family for many years tended to judge performances of Shakespeare's most famous play. This simple production boasts one of the finest collection of Shakespearean actors ever assembled. Jacobi's Prince of Denmark is a complex and embittered intellectual, whose occasional bursts of love, faith and even fury are transformed within an instant into weary skepticism. His first resort in any dilemma is to let fire with irony on his nearest and dearest. In a way, though hardly innovative—too many actors seem desperated to find (or invent) something wholly new in this too-famous character— Jacobi is giving us a very postmodern, almost deconstructed Hamlet attractive, sensitive, even high-minded on the surface, but underneath a man whose sanity and even noble intentions are ultimately untrustworthy. Patrick Stewart portrays a Claudius wholly up to the challenge of overturning Hamlets world. No lecherous drunkard he, as in many production, but the capable CEO of the troubled state of Denmark. Claire Bloom is the most beautiful, regal and sympathetic Gertrude Ive ever seen. Hamlet misjudges her, too, if he thinks this woman is too old for passion. She is also a queen worth killing for, making Patrick Stewart's job of finding Claudius motivations all the easier." (Debra Murphy)

Hungarian Summary:

Dániába visszatérve Hamlet királyfi azzal a szörnyű tragédiával szembesül, hogy imádott apját megölték, és a királyi trónon anyja mellett immár nagybátyja ül. Hamlet, aki nem tudja feldolgozni sem apja halálát, sem anyja új és gyors nászát a nagybátyjával, magába fordul. Apja szellemét megidézve gyilkos bosszúra készül. Elméjét és lelkét a legkülönbözőbb érzelmek kötik gúzsba: hol gyilkos ösztön, hol szerelmes álmodozás, hol üldözési mánia kergeti az őrület felé, miközben az emberi természet mibenlétét kutatja.

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