What an ambitious project Kenneth Branagh undertook here and how well it was realized! This is the first filmed version of 'Hamlet' to use the full text of Shakespeare's play, but Branagh didn't do it just because 'it was there.' His intention, I believe, was to make the play accessible and understandable to the general viewer without dumbing it down, so to speak. However, Castle Rock Entertainment, agreed to finance the film and to Branagh's demands (filming in 65mm, complete control over the film, etc.) under two conditions: a star-studded cast for the show and a 35mm, abridged 2.5 hour version of the film for a wider release. Also, most studios were aware of the negative reviews and the commercial failure of Branagh's previously-directed film, (1994) and some of them would only finance the film if the content and the budget is cut to half. Focus Kazakhstan: Bread and Roses is an exhibition of four generations of Kazakh women artists organised by MOMENTUM in partnership with the National Museum. Trivia For more than a year, had tried shopping the project around major studios in Hollywood, but no studio was willing to finance a four-hour production, citing skepticism of the commercial viability of a adaptation to a late 20th-century audience. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark.
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In an incredibly convoluted plot-the most complicated and most interesting in all literature-he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the 'prime minister,' love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's. Download 'Hamlet' Movie In HD, DivX, DVD, Ipod.