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Films based on the theatrical play Hamlet (c. 1599-1601) by William Shakespeare. The play is in turn an adaptation of the legend of Amleth , as depicted in the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus . Pages in category "Films based on Hamlet "
This list includes adaptations of the Hamlet story, and films in which the characters are involved in acting or studying Hamlet. Oh'Phelia (UK, 1919) animated burlesque of the Hamlet story. [71] Anson Dyer director. To Be or Not To Be (USA, 1942) is the story of an acting company in 1939 Poland. Ernst Lubitsch director Jack Benny as Joseph Tura
The story and script were by Mehdi Hassan Ahsan from his Urdu adaptation of Hamlet. Khoon Ka Khoon was the debut in films of Naseem Banu. [50] Khoon Ka Khoon was a "filmed version of a stage performance of the play". [51] The film has been cited by National Film Archive of India founder P K. Nair, as one of "most wanted" missing Indian cinema ...
Hamlet was the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. [6] It is the first sound film of the play in English. Olivier's Hamlet is the Shakespeare film that has received the most prestigious accolades, winning the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. However, it ...
Elsinore Castle, the seat of power of Denmark's crown in the play, is re-imagined as Hotel Elsinore, the headquarters of Denmark Corporation.; Prior to delivering the "To be, or not to be" monologue, Hamlet is seen watching a video of famed Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh explaining the principle "To be is to be with others; to be is to inter-be" a basic teaching of Hanh's "Order of ...
Hamlet is a 1990 drama film based on the Shakespearean tragedy of the same name, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Mel Gibson as the eponymous character. The film also features Glenn Close , Alan Bates , Paul Scofield , Ian Holm , Helena Bonham Carter , Stephen Dillane , and Nathaniel Parker .
One example is Luca Damiano's Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia Parts 1 and 2 (1996). [13] [14] The 2006 Chinese film The Banquet (also known as Legend of the Black Scorpion) has a storyline loosely based on the story of Hamlet. [15] In the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back, Chewbacca tries to reassemble the body of the robot C-3PO. At one ...
[12] On Metacritic it has a score of 83 out of 100, based on 17 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim". [13] Henry V also ranks #1 on the Rotten Tomatoes list of Greatest Shakespeare Movies, beating Akira Kurosawa 's Ran (1985) and Branagh's own version of Hamlet (1996), respectively ranking in second and third place.