Hamlet (1969)

Directors

Tony Richardson

Cast

Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Michael Pennington, Mark Dignam, Gordon Jackson, Ben Aris, Clive Graham, Anjelica Huston, Roger Livesey

The story

Hamlet's father, the king, was killed by Hamlet's uncle Claudius who then married the widowed queen, Gertrude. Hamlet's ghost father visits him and tells Hamlet what happened, so Hamlet swears revenge. He feigns insanity, which worries the Claudius and Gertrude, and Polonius, who is Ophelia's father.

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