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
00:09:20 Passing through nature to eternity.
00:13:22 Your father.
00:18:13 Farewell!
00:26:17 To his shameful lust the will of my queen.
00:33:52 Do you think 'tis this?
00:38:04 Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing
00:42:03 You are welcome, masters.
00:46:10 Had he the motive and the cue for Passion that I have?
00:53:19 As made the things more rich.
00:59:15 And what did you enact?
01:03:10 Sleep rock thy brain
01:09:09 My lord, you once did love me.
01:13:31 O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn?
01:19:33 For at your age the heyday in the blood waits upon the judgement.
01:25:26 first mouthed, to be last swallowed.
01:34:47 To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it, nor
01:46:20 Let in the maid, that out a maid
01:53:28 Laertes, you shall hear them.
02:00:01 How came he mad?
02:04:59 Must there no more be done?
02:10:33 But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me
02:14:56 I embrace it freely, And will this brother's wager play.
02:28:22 The End