Hamlet (1964 film)

For the BBC production starring Christopher Plummer, see Hamlet at Elsinore.
For the stage production starring Richard Burton filmed and released in 1964, see Richard Burton's Hamlet.
Hamlet
Directed byGrigori Kozintsev
Iosif Shapiro [Wikidata] (co-director)
Written byWilliam Shakespeare
Boris Pasternak
Grigori Kozintsev
StarringInnokenty Smoktunovsky
Mikhail Nazvanov
Elza Radziņa
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
CinematographyJonas Gricius
Music byDmitri Shostakovich
Distributed byLenfilm
Release date
  • June 24, 1964 (1964-06-24)
Running time
140 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Hamlet (Russian: Гамлет, romanized: Gamlet) is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro [ru], and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet.