Hamlet
1964 · 140 MIN · IMDB 8.2 · 3,059 VOTES · DIR. Grigori Kozintsev
Overview
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,410 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:01 Order of Lenin LENFILM Studio
00:09:11 Do not forever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
00:13:10 My lord, I think
00:17:57 Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!
00:25:33 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard
00:33:21 My daughter, in her duty and obedience, hath given me this.
00:37:30 Happy, in that we're not overhappy: On Fortune's cap we're not the button.
00:41:00 Why did you laugh, then, when I said "man delights not me"?
00:45:00 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced!
00:50:42 The undiscovered country, from whose Bourn no traveler returns
00:56:42 but let your own discretion be your tutor.
01:01:47 So many journeys may the sun and moon
01:07:26 I did very well note him.
01:11:13 Do you think I am easier...
01:16:48 You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see your inmost part.
01:21:50 For this same lord
01:28:17 and eat of the fish that has fed of that worm.
01:39:22 On the view and knowing of these contents
01:48:45 Let her come in!
01:57:37 Has clawed me in his clutch
02:01:03 Here's a skull now has lain you
02:05:38 Thou pray not well. Off my throat. Hold off thy hand!
02:11:08 that he has laid a wager on your head.
02:15:23 If Hamlet give the first or second hit, Or quit i'answer of the third exchange