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Hamlet (1980)
Directed by Rodney Bennett
Drama, TV Movie · 3h 30m
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Cast
Derek Jacobi
Hamlet
Claire Bloom
Gertrude
Patrick Stewart
Claudius
Eric Porter
Polonius
Lalla Ward
Ophelia
David Robb
Laertes
Robert Swann
Horatio
P
Patrick Allen
Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Emrys James
Player King
J
Jason Kemp
Player Queen
Geoffrey Beevers
Third Player / Lucianus
B
Bill Homewood
Player King in the mime
Crew
- Director
- Rodney Bennett
- Original Music Composer
- Dudley Simpson
- Editor
- Dave Hillier
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
Details
- Release date
- 1980-05-25
- Runtime
- 3h 30m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC, Time-Life Television Productions