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Hamlet(Movie, 1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 35min | Genre: Drama
HamletRating: 3.8/5 (with 9999 votes)
Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director and the second of the three Shakespeare films that he directed (the 1936 As You Like It had starred Olivier, but had been directed by Paul Czinner). Hamlet was the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. 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 proved controversial among Shakespearean purists, who felt that Olivier had made too many alterations and excisions to the four-hour play by cutting one-and-a-half-hours' worth of content. Milton Shulman wrote in The Evening Standard: "To some it will be one of the greatest films ever made, to others a deep disappointment. Laurence Olivier leaves no doubt that he is one of our greatest living actors... his liberties with the text,... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Hamlet

Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

About Hamlet

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Plays in: Denmark
Based on the work of: William Shakespeare ("Hamlet")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 23 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/10/1948
Appearing Characters: King Claudius, Gertrude, Prince Hamlet, Horatio, Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia, The Ghost, Francisco, Bernardo, Marcellus, Osric
Screenwriter: Laurence Olivier
Film Editor: Helga Keller
Director of Photography: Desmond Dickinson
Composer: William Walton
Costume designer: Roger Furse
Production Designer: Roger Furse
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Хамлет"
"王子复仇记"
"Άμλετ"
"Amleto"
"ハムレット"
"Гамлет"
Budget: 750,000 USD
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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