Richard Burton as Hamlet - Directed by John Gielgud - Broadway production 1964

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Directed by John Gielgud (stage) - Bill Colleran (film)

CAST
Richard Burton as Hamlet
Hume Cronyn as Polonius
Alfred Drake as Claudius
Eileen Herlie as Gertrude
William Redfield as Guildenstern
George Rose as First Gravedigger
George Voskovec as Player King
Philip Coolidge as Voltemand
John Cullum as Laertes
Michael Ebert as Francisco/ Fortinbras
Dillon Evans as Reynaldo/Osric
Clement Fowler as Rosencrantz
Geoff Garland as Lucianus
Barnard Hughes as Marcellus/Priest
Linda Marsh as Ophelia
Robert Milli as Horatio
Hugh Alexander as Cornelius/ Second Gravedigger/ English Ambassador
Robert Burr as Bernardo/Ensemble
Christopher Culkin as Player Queen
Alex Giannini as Ensemble
John Gielgud as Ghost
Claude Harz as Ensemble
John Hetherington as Player Prologue/Ensemble
Gerome Ragni as Ensemble
Linda Seff as Ensemble
Richard L. Sterne as Gentleman
Carol Teitel as Ensemble
Frederick Young as Ensemble

Broadway production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet that played from April 9 to August 8, 1964 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. A filmed record was created by recording three live performances on camera from June 30 to July 1 using a process called Electronovision and then editing them into a single film.

Because Burton disliked wearing period costumes, and for aesthetic reasons of his own, Gielgud conceived of a production performed in a “rehearsal” setting with an incomplete set and the actors wearing what appeared to be street clothes (although the costumes were actually the result of continuous trial-and-error in rehearsals, with the actors bringing in countless variations of attire for Gielgud to consider). Gielgud also opted to depict the Ghost as a shadow against the back of the stage wall, voicing the character himself on tape (since he was unavailable while the production was in performance).

AUDIO / IMAGE HD Restoration - Sources and/or Archive copies quality used for this restoration: damaged/poor.

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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - [ Ссылка ]
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.

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